Communities and Technologies

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M.H. Huysman, Etienne Wenger, Volker Wulf
Springer Science & Business Media, Aug 31, 2003 - Science - 484 pages
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
38
The African Dream A PanAfrican ECommunity Project
227
Seeing both
258
A Bayesian Computational Model of Social Capital in Virtual Communities
287
From Community Discussion to Knowledge Distillation
307
The Case of
338
Patients Online Communities Experiences of Emergent Swedish SelfHelp
370
Oppositional New Media and Community
391
A Respectful Critique
407
Synchronizing Asynchronous Collaborative Learners
427
Community Support in Universities The Drehscheibe Project
445
Contrasting Learning
465
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