1st Edition
The Neighborhood in the Internet Design Research Projects in Community Informatics
By John M. Carroll
Copyright 2012
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Today, "community" seems to be everywhere. At home, at work, and online, the vague but comforting idea of the community pervades every area of life. But have we lost the ability truly to understand what it means? The Neighborhood in the Internet investigates social and civic effects of community networks on local community, and how community network designs are appropriated and extended by... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Community Lost, Community Regained 2. What are Community Networks? 3. Appropriating a Community Network 4. Community Consequences of a Network 5. Learning in a Networked Community 6. Reaching Across Generations 7. Designing Our Town 8. Whither Community Networks? References
Biography
John M. Carroll is Edward Frymoyer Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. His research is in methods and theory in human-computer interaction, particularly as applied to networking tools for collaborative learning and problem solving, and design of interactive information systems. His books include Rationale-Based Software Engineering (Springer, 2008, with J. Burge, R. McCall and I. Mistrik), and Learning in Communities (Springer, 2009).
