Overview

The intricate relationship between information technologies, community, and social memory is critical to a fuller understanding of the evolution of our societies. Telecommunications and information technologies modify the process of accessing and storing data and knowledge, and consequently they also modify our relationship with both social and historical m- ory. Our various virtual communities continue to expand on a planetary scale, and hence the neologism “Global Village”, while concurrently, their physical counterparts are progressively being contained within speci?c contexts and places, often referred to as a process of “localization”. And then, there is the unpredictable evolution of today’s communication s- tems, an evolution that has been de?ned by Albert Einstein as the third bomb of the 20th century, after the atomic bomb and the demographic bomb. Therefore, as communication systems continue to develop, we face new scenarioswithimpreciseboundaries,thatleadtoendlessnewopportunities for establishing the relationship between social memory, community, and information systems. How can the knowledge process dynamic, together with the storing and transmitting of information, sounds, and images through digital devices, affect the communal memory and the way we both conceive of and create communities? We have at least three emerging paradigms that help us to understand the phenomena concerning the evolution of social memory linked with the recent diffusion of communication technologies.

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Author:   Patrick Purcell
Publisher:   Springer London Ltd
Imprint:   Springer London Ltd
Edition:   2006 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.799kg
ISBN:  

9781846282676

ISBN 10:   1846282675
Pages:   430
Publication Date:   11 August 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Networks and Neighbours.- Networked Neighbourhoods: The Purview.- Connected Community.- Community Practice in the Network Society: Pathways Toward Civic Intelligence.- Social Networks and the Nature of Communities.- Community Informatics for Community Development: the “Hope or Hype” Issue Revisited.- Knowledge and the Local Community.- Connected Memories in the Networked Digital Era: A Moving Paradigm.- Community and Communication: A Rounded Perspective1.- The Research Impetus.- Connected Lives: The Project1.- The Impact of the Internet on Local and Distant Social Ties.- The Magic Lounge: Connecting Island Communities Through Varied Communication Services.- The Digital Hug: Enhancing Emotional Communication by Creative Scenarios.- Ambient Intelligence: Human–Agent Interactions in a Networked Community.- Mediated Human Communication.- Beyond Communication: Human Connectedness as a Research Agenda.- The Presence Project: Helping Older People Engage with Their Local Communities.- Informing the Community: The Roles of Interactive Public Displays in Comparable Settings.- Serving Visitor Communities: A Mediated Experience of the Arts.

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From the reviews: This book will interest our readers who are working in the fields of sociocybernetics as well as those with a bias towards online interactions. ... In many ways this text has been opened up new ground and is the fore-runner of many more that will consider the issues of people and their connection to the new technology. ... it provides an instructive read with the relevant collected, articles well matched and presented by the editor. (D. M. Hutton, Kybernetes, Vol. 37 (2), 2008)

From the reviews: <p> This book will interest our readers who are working in the fields of sociocybernetics as well as those with a bias towards online interactions. a ] In many ways this text has been opened up new ground and is the fore-runner of many more that will consider the issues of people and their connection to the new technology. a ] it provides an instructive read with the relevant collected, articles well matched and presented by the editor. (D. M. Hutton, Kybernetes, Vol. 37 (2), 2008)

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