[Air-l] defining community

[Gustavo S. Mesch]

My suggestion is a comprehensive and up to date review of different approaches
to community and its relevance to ICT

Katz, James E., Ronald Rice, Sophia Acord, Kiku Dasgupta and Kalpana David.
Personal Mediated Communication and the concept of community in theory and
practice. Communication Yearbook, 28, pp.315-371
-- 
Gustavo S. Mesch,
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Senior Research Associate
The Center for the Study of Society
The University of Haifa, Israel
email:gustavo at soc.haifa.ac.il
http://soc.haifa.ac.il/~gustavo
http://soc.haifa.ac.il/community



Quoting Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>:

> To my mind, the UR article on defining community is
> Hillery, George Jr. 1955. "Definitions of Community: Areas of Agreement."
> Rural Sociology 20:111-122.
>
> There have been follow-ups, including Barry Leighton and me,
>
> Wellman, Barry, and Barry Leighton. 1979. "Networks, Neighborhoods and
> Communities." Urban Affairs Quarterly 14:363-90.
>
> And a NetLab rant at computer scientists, who were really sloppy in usage:
>
> Wellman, Barry, and Milena Gulia. 1999. "Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone:
> Virtual Communities as Communities." Pp. 331-366 in Networks in the Global
> Village, edited by Barry Wellman. Boulder, CO: Westview.
>
> Everything old is new again!
>
>  Barry
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