[Air-l] defining community

[Jankowski]

Gustavo:

I would modestly add my own review of the literature in the Lievrouw 
& Livingstone Handbook of New Media (Sage, updated student edition, 
2006): "Creating Community with Media: History, Theories and 
Scientific Investigations".

I have, incidentally, revised and expanded that chapter for a 
University of Leicester course module regarding online community and 
identity; I am willing to share that module with anyone who contacts 
me off the list.

Nick Jankowski




At 06:14 AM 7/31/2006, you wrote:
>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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