Maintaining community in the information age
Subtitle: the importance of trust, place and situated knowledge
By: Karen F. Evans
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Community life -- Technological innovations; Communities; Electronic villages (Computer networks); Internet -- Social aspects; Globalization -- Social aspects; Information society
Description: "By exploring the experiences of community activists and organisations working with information and communication technology (ICT) to build communities, this book offers a grounded and informed study of the place which ICT plays in people's lives. The author emphasises 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-200) and index