I would also take a peak at: http://onlinedemocracy.winona.org/startup.html http://www.e-democracy.org/mpls Traditional CNs from the Free-Net era never recovered from the web. Once they shifted into content or the provision of online services to local organizations from bulletin board interactivity among local people they pretty much died. A growing trend (outside the U.S.) is the notion of community portals or gateways which are often funded by government. It is within this context that local online interactivity could be built. More on local interactivity: http://www.publicus.net/articles/future.html#Local Other e-lists on this topic (you'll have to search for the subscribe pages): Globalcn2000@yahoogroups.com, conet@ukco.org.uk, members@afcn.org, COMMUNET@LIST.UVM.EDU, eacn@ukco.org.uk Cheers, Steven Clift http://www.publicus.net On 16 Jan 2002 at 1:53, Mete Yildiz wrote:
Hi,
I would like to thank everyone who responded to my inquiry about community networks. I would like to share the summary of the responses with the group so that future inquirers about the subject might use the archive as AIR-L's collective memory.
Some of these e-mails were personal correspondance. I hope it is Ok to share the information portion with the group. I edited the e-mails slightly. I hope others will benefit from them as I did.
Cheers,
Mete
--------------------------------------------- Mete Yildiz
Ph.D. Student, Public Affairs School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University Bloomington
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Original Question:
All kinds of resources about (online) community networks.
Responses:
1. from Sergey Veselovsky
You may want to look at some surveys like the following and search "online communities" at amazon.com. Probably it's worth to subscribe for a discussion group of online community professionals at http://www.e-mint.org.uk
- Barry Wellman et al,"Does the Internet Increase, Decrease or Supplement Social Capital? Social Networks, Participation and Community Commitment" Revised Version American Behavioral Scientist, 45, 3 (November 2001), pp. 437-56. available via http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/index.html
- Pew Internet & American Life Project, "Online Communities: Networks that nurture long-distance relationships and local ties", http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=47
- UCLA, "Surveying the Digital Future", http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pages/internet-report.asp
2. From Christina Courtright
There's Michael Gurstein's mailing list on community informatics: write to Majordomo@vcn.bc.ca and in the body write subscribe communityinformatics Or you can visit the Web site that hosts the list http://www.vcn.bc.ca/groups/
3. From Valdis Krebs
IMHO, the most advanced thinking in community networking is done by June Holley and her organization: Appalachian Center for Economic Networks in Athens, OH -- http://www.acenetworks.org
They have even mapped out the small business/resource networks in the SE Ohio area [> 200 organizations and individuals] and are keeping network metrics as the networks evolve and change. They are concentrating on three specific relationships/networks: 1) Collaboration -- who works with whom 2) Expertise -- who seeks out whom for expert advice and mentoring 3) Innovation -- who gets ideas from whom, and who do they, in turn, share them with
4. From Kim Gregson
virtual communities annotated bibliography: http://php.indiana.edu/~kgregson/virtual_communities.html
community networking annotated bib: http://php.indiana.edu/~kgregson/main_menu.html
bibliography and online links for a papr i did with another SLIS grad student (Charlotte Ford) on evaluating community nets http://php.indiana.edu/~kgregson/eval_bib.html
I think there's a new book or a new version of his classic, by Howard Rheingold on community networks
5. From Nick Jankowski
See the following URL for information on a upcoming conference concerning, in part, community networks: http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~jankow/Euricom
6. From David Silver
Thorsten Lohbeck compiled a massive bibliography focusing on community networks. It can be found here:
http://orgwis.gmd.de/%7emambrey/cn_bibliogr.html
7. From Tomoaki Watanabe
The definite book on the subject is (still) Doug Schler's "New Community Networks: Wired for change" ACM Press, 1996.
"Cyberdemocracy: Technology, cities, and civic networks" Eds. by Rosa Tsagarousianou, Damian Tambini and Cathy Bryan. Routledge, 1998. This book includes interesting chapters on e-government, participatory democracy side of comnets.
Journal articles: check php.indiana.edu/~twatanab/citations.rtf
Some good conferences: I would recommend to check out TPRC's archive section, too. www.tprc.org -> archive in 2001 and 2000, at least, they had some papers on community networks. Maybe other years as well.
INET in the last year had a session on community networks, too. The papers were interesting.
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet/01/
Other famous conferences include DIAC (organized by Doug Shuler, the authoer of the definite book I mentioned first), and Global Community Networking (GCN).
Web sites:
Blacksburg Electronic Village's web site has some usage analysis and other reports. This and Canada's National Capital Net, Amsterdam's Digital City are the most well-documented case studies. These are published both online and on paper - some are only on paper.
U Michigan's school of information has a good project called Community Connector.
Benton Foundation, a non-profit telecom-policy watchdog, has a page on community networking, as well. Their home page is www.benton.org. They are more interested in digital divide issue.
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