Communities and TechnologiesM.H. Huysman, Etienne Wenger, Volker Wulf The book contains 24 research articles related to the emerging research field of Communities and Technologies (C&T). The papers treat subjects such as online communities, communities of practice, Community support systems, Digital Cities, regional communities and the internet, knowledge sharing and communities, civil communities, communities and education and social capital. As a result of a very quality-oriented review process, the work reflects the best of current research and practice in the field of C&T. |
Contents
An Investigation of Job Title | 23 |
Episteme or Practice? Differentiated Communitarian Structures in a Biology | 43 |
A Study of Communities Invisible People through ReachOut | 65 |
Automated Discovery of Community Structure within | 80 |
Information Sharing with Digital Community Bulletin Boards | 97 |
Knowledge Sharing in Knowledge Communities | 119 |
Online and Offline 143 | 142 |
Communities and Other Social Structures for Knowledge Sharing A Case | 163 |
Weak Ties in Networked Communities | 265 |
A Bayesian Computational Model of Social Capital in Virtual Communities | 287 |
From Community Discussion to Knowledge Distillation | 307 |
The Case of | 326 |
Community | 347 |
Patients Online Communities Experiences of Emergent Swedish SelfHelp | 368 |
Oppositional New Media and Community | 391 |
A Respectful Critique 407 | 406 |
Yes an intranet is all very well but do | 185 |
Learning and Collaboration across Generations in a Community | 205 |
The African Dream A PanAfrican ECommunity Project 227 | 226 |
Seeing both | 241 |
Synchronizing Asynchronous Collaborative Learners | 427 |
Community Support in Universities The Drehscheibe Project 445 | 444 |
Contrasting Learning | 465 |
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activities agents analysis analyze Blacksburg bridges Cambridge collaborative collaborative learning collective efficacy communities of practice community intranet community members community support system computer-mediated communication connected context create culture culture jamming CyberForum defined discussion employees environment epistemic community Everything2 example experience face-to-face Figure functions goal graph Harvard Business School I-DIAG identify identity important individuals innovation interaction interest Internet interviews involved knowledge management knowledge sharing language Lave learning lurkers messages Net-scenario non-bridges offline online communities organisation organization paper participants patients perspective Plasma Posters poster boards postings practice theory problems ReachOut relations relationships role routes server shared practice simulations social capital social network social network analysis space specific STAGECAST CREATOR synchronization point tacit knowledge tourism trust understanding users variables virtual communities Wenger workshop