Title: Communities and technologies 2005
Description: This book includes 23 papers dealing with the impact of modern information and communication technologies that support a wide variety of communities: local communities, virtual communities, and communities of practice, such as knowledge communities and scientific communities. The volume is the result of the second multidisciplinary "Communities and Technologies Conference", a major event in this emerging research field. The various chapters discuss how communities are affected by technologies, and how understanding of the way that communities function can be used in improving information systems design. This state of the art overview will be of interest to computer and information scientists, social scientists and practitioners alike.
Subjects: Computers, Computers and civilization, Congresses, Information society, Social aspects of Computers, Computers, social aspects, Computer science, Information systems, Electronic commerce, Business planning, Social sciences, Computer Science, general, Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet), Electronic Commerce/e-business, Organization/Planning, Social Sciences, general