Newmarket, northeast of Toronto, Ontario is the site of one of North America's

first "wired communities." Paul Hoffert wrote a book about it, titled "The Bagel

Effect: A Compass to Navigate Our Wired World". See "Block Party" by Paul

Hoffert at http://www.canspeak.com/BigIdea.htm . For more information, go to

Google.com and search on - "wired community", Newmarket - and you'll find

a number of items relating to this "wired community"............Alex

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Alex Kuskis PhD Candidate
OISE/University of Toronto
e-Learning Consultant, e-Scholars.ca
Associate Faculty, Royal Roads University
http://www.royalroads.ca/oll/madl/information.htm
akuskis@ican.net - Alex.Kuskis@utoronto.ca
"Learning a living" - Marshall McLuhan

----- Original Message -----

From: CRAIG MURRAY

To: air-l@aoir.org ; air-l-request@aoir.org

Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:00 AM

Subject: [Air-l] networking communities

Hi everyone.

I would appreciate any help members of the list can provide regarding studies of locally computer networked communities. Can anyone point me to references that cover the impact of networking such communities (for instance placing networked computers in peoples homes who all live on the same street)? I am particularly interested in that work that looks at the social capital that such initiatives produce.

Would any members have similar references regarding the local networking of people with various disabilities?

Thanks in advance for any help members can provide.

Best wishes, Craig.

Craig D. Murray
Lecturer in Psychology
Department of Psychology
Liverpool Hope University College
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