My suggestion is a comprehensive and up to date review of different approaches to community and its relevance to ICT Katz, James E., Ronald Rice, Sophia Acord, Kiku Dasgupta and Kalpana David. Personal Mediated Communication and the concept of community in theory and practice. Communication Yearbook, 28, pp.315-371 -- Gustavo S. Mesch, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Senior Research Associate The Center for the Study of Society The University of Haifa, Israel email:gustavo@soc.haifa.ac.il http://soc.haifa.ac.il/~gustavo http://soc.haifa.ac.il/community Quoting Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca>:
To my mind, the UR article on defining community is Hillery, George Jr. 1955. "Definitions of Community: Areas of Agreement." Rural Sociology 20:111-122.
There have been follow-ups, including Barry Leighton and me,
Wellman, Barry, and Barry Leighton. 1979. "Networks, Neighborhoods and Communities." Urban Affairs Quarterly 14:363-90.
And a NetLab rant at computer scientists, who were really sloppy in usage:
Wellman, Barry, and Milena Gulia. 1999. "Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities." Pp. 331-366 in Networks in the Global Village, edited by Barry Wellman. Boulder, CO: Westview.
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