Communities And Technologies 2005: Proceedings Of The Second Communities And Technologies Conference, Milano 2005

COMMUNITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES 2005 Communities and Technologies 2005 Proceedings of the Second Communities and Technologies Conference, Milano 2005 Edited by PETER VAN DEN BESSELAAR University of Amsterdam The Netherlands GIORGIO DE MICHELIS University of Milano Bicocca, Italy JENNY PREECE University of Maryland, U.S.A. and CARLA SIMONE University of Milano Bicocca, Italy A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN-10 1-4020-3590-X (HB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-10 1-4020-3591-8 (e-book) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3590-6 (HB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3591-3 (e-book) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2005 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed in the Netherlands. Table of Contents From the conference chairs Sponsors, conference committees, and other reviewers ix xiii PART 1: LOCAL COMMUNITIES Does the Internet Enhance the Capacity of Community Associations? Christopher Weare, William E. Loges, Nail Oztas Information Technology in Support of Public Deliberation Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Philip L. Isenhour, Matthew Cooper, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, Joseph Schmitz 1 19 Local Communities: Relationships between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ social capital Sonia Liff 41 Extending Social Constructivism with Institutional Theory: A Broadband Civic Networking Case Murali Venkatesh, Dong Hee Shin 55 Minimalist Design for Informal Learning in Community Computing Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll 75 PART 2: VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES Virtual Community Management as Socialization and Learning Daniel Pargman File-Sharing Relationships – conflicts of interest in online gift-giving Jörgen Skågeby, Daniel Pargman 95 111 Acceptance and Utility of a Systematically Designed Virtual Community for Cancer Patients Jan Marco Leimeister, Helmut Krcmar 129 How to win a World Election: Emergent Leadership in an International Online Community Justine Cassell, David Huffaker, Dona Tversky, Kim Ferriman 149 vi A Bosom Buddy afar brings a Distant Land near: are Bloggers a Global Community? Norman Makoto Su, Yang Wang, Gloria Mark, Tosin Aieylokun, Tadashi Nakano 171 PART 3: KNOWLEDGE & SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES Archetypes of Knowledge Communities J.H.Erik Andriessen Local Virtuality