Community Informatics 
Subtitle: Shaping Computer-Mediated Social Networks
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780415231114
First sentence: Throughout the world in recent years there has been a dramatic surge of activity by hundreds of community groups, social support networks, voluntary agencies and government organisations dedicated to exploring the transforming qualities of the new information and communications technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet for the development, economic regeneration and democratic stimulation of communities.