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Maintaining Community in the Information Age
The Importance of Trust, Place and Situated Knowledge
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eBook - PDF
Maintaining Community in the Information Age
The Importance of Trust, Place and Situated Knowledge
About this book
By exploring the experiences of community activists and organizations working with information and communication technology (ICT) to build communities, this book offers a grounded and informed study of the role ICT plays in people's lives. The author emphasizes the importance of networks built around trust, shared spaces and local knowledge bases in the formation of significant relationships in contemporary Western societies and in doing so, questions many of the assumptions which inform the rhetorics of the information age.
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Yes, you can access Maintaining Community in the Information Age by Karen F. Evans in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sciences sociales & Aspects sociaux de l'informatique. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Globalisation, Technology and Community
- 2 The Social Impact of Information and Communication Technologies
- 3 From the Global to the Local: Building Community Spaces on the Internet
- 4 Engaging with the Information Age: Questioning the Notion of a ‘Digital Underclass’
- 5 Exploring the Digital Divide
- 6 Bridging the Digital Divide: What Works?
- Conclusion: Against the Flow...
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index