studies on Local community strength by internet access
Are there any studies showing that internet access increases local community strength? I think I came across this thesis on this list. Can someone point this out to me? thanks. Peter Timusk B.Math(2002) BA (2006) Carleton University running MacOSX, Debian 3.0 & 3.1, WinXP &Win2K & Fedora Core 3 Community activist, statistics worker. member IWW IU 620, CUPE 4600, USWA 9597 Nothing I write is intended to be representative of my employer, or our clients. Nor do I alone speak for my unions. Feel free to learn more about me at www.crystalcomputing.net Computer ethics studies at www.webpagex.org blogs http://logbook.crystalcomputing.net <- computers http://notebook.webpagex.org <- school work
Hampton, K. & Wellman, B. (2003). Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb. City & Community, 2(4), 277-311. This paper looks at a "natural experiment" where half the new suburb was given high speed internet for free while the other half only had optional dial-up. The ones who had internet were more likely to neighbor, be social and engage in other positive community oriented activity. Keith is probably doing more work along these lines with his eNeighbors project. Keith Hampton <khampton AT asc DOT upenn DOT edu> Take care, BERNiE I received a message from Peter Timusk at approximately 4/12/06 5:15 PM. Above is my reply.
Are there any studies showing that internet access increases local community strength? I think I came across this thesis on this list. Can someone point this out to me?
thanks.
Peter Timusk B.Math(2002) BA (2006) Carleton University running MacOSX, Debian 3.0 & 3.1, WinXP &Win2K & Fedora Core 3 Community activist, statistics worker. member IWW IU 620, CUPE 4600, USWA 9597 Nothing I write is intended to be representative of my employer, or our clients. Nor do I alone speak for my unions. Feel free to learn more about me at www.crystalcomputing.net Computer ethics studies at www.webpagex.org blogs http://logbook.crystalcomputing.net <- computers http://notebook.webpagex.org <- school work
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In addition to Keith Hampton's study (with Barry Wellman) of Netville noted by Doug Timusk earlier, we have found in Blacksburg that Internet use increases community involvement for those who are predisposed to become more involved. If you include increased involvement and social interaction as measures of "community strength", see, for example: Kavanaugh, A. and Patterson, S. (2001) The Impact of Community Computer Networks on Social Capital and Community Involvement. American Behavioral Scientist, 45 (3) (special issue edited by Barry and Caroline Haythornthwaite, including an article by Barry and Keith on Netville). Or more recently: Kavanaugh, A., Carroll, J. M., Rosson, M. B., Zin, T. T., and Reese, D.D. (2005). Community networks: Where offline communities meet online. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 10(4) <http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue4/kavanaugh.html>http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue4/kavanaugh.html Let me know if you are interested in any other recent papers on Blacksburg findings related to this. Andrea At 05:15 PM 4/12/2006, you wrote:
Are there any studies showing that internet access increases local community strength? I think I came across this thesis on this list. Can someone point this out to me?
thanks.
Peter Timusk B.Math(2002) BA (2006) Carleton University running MacOSX, Debian 3.0 & 3.1, WinXP &Win2K & Fedora Core 3 Community activist, statistics worker. member IWW IU 620, CUPE 4600, USWA 9597 Nothing I write is intended to be representative of my employer, or our clients. Nor do I alone speak for my unions. Feel free to learn more about me at www.crystalcomputing.net Computer ethics studies at www.webpagex.org blogs http://logbook.crystalcomputing.net <- computers http://notebook.webpagex.org <- school work
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Andrea Kavanaugh, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist Associate Director Center for Human Computer Interaction Department of Computer Science 2160 H Torgersen Hall Virginia Tech (0295) Blacksburg, VA 24061-0295 tel: (540) 231-1806 fax:(540) 231-6075 http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/users/kavan
there have been a number of lit reviews in this area recently - see for example: Loader, B. and L. Keeble (2004). Challenging the digital divide? A review of online community support. Digital Age. York, Joseph Rowntree Foundation. http://www.jrf.org.uk/KNOWLEDGE/FINDINGS/ socialpolicy/584.asp As part of a European project on ICT, social capital and Quality of life (www.socquit.net) Mark Gaved and I put together a similar report focusing on (strangely enough) social capital and quality of life in wired communities (http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/content/pubs/wps/ CWP-2006-06-Local-ICT-Social-Capital.pdf). High quality long-term empirical studies are quite rare. Depends what you mean by 'strength' of course. Ben
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Are there any studies showing that internet access increases local community strength? I think I came across this thesis on this list. Can someone point this out to me?
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