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Author Stillman, Larry, Dr.

Title Constructing and Sharing Memory : Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (393 pages)
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Contents Table of contents; preface; introduction; narrative, community memory and technologies; the counterculture, community, and an event-oriented methodology; participative community profiling; community memory activation with collaboration patterns; our expectations about archives; community, identity and shared value systems from aristotle to singer; rcm and mrl; public libraries as communal knowledge commons; informal learning in virtual communities; the holocaust in the memory of the roma; connecting communities using new media; citizen research.
The development of a metadata application profile to facilitate the repatriation of cultural resources to quinkan countryknowledge creation and collective memory n the era of web 2.0 and network non-neutrality; the community intermediaries research project; culture, identity and representation in an information age town; using ict to support public and private community memories; metadata driven presentation of digital documents/records; evaluation of the archival information systems thinking framework; social and cultural practice collides with security design.
Community memory and ict in a developing economywho leads, who remembers, who speaks?; ict, community memory and technological appropriation; the mapping of memories onto the community space; community informatics and the information processing continuum; a critical analysis of e-democracy as a contributory tool to the formation of public memory; amsterdam communities' memories; memory and archives in community informatics; speaking out, being heard; index.
Summary Community Informatics is a developing field which brings together understandings about the interaction of communities and information and communication technologies from fields as diverse as Management and Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences, Community Development, Sociology, or Social and Community Welfare. A key assumption of community informatics is that technologies can be used for positive social change and development, particularly Other disadvantaged communities or ...
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Community information services.
Community information services.
Collective memory.
Collective memory.
Social epistemology.
Social epistemology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Added Author Johanson, Graeme.
Other Form: Print version: Stillman, Larry. Constructing and Sharing Memory : Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2007 9781847182777
ISBN 9781443811460 (electronic book)
1443811467 (electronic book)