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CANDT
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Overhearing the crowd: an empirical examination of conversation reuse in a technical support community
This paper describes a mixed method, empirical analysis of conversation reuse in an online technical support community. I find that the same characteristics that make the conversa...
Derek L. Hansen
CANDT
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Bowling online: social networking and social capital within the organization
Charles Steinfield, Joan Moris DiMicco, Nicole Ell...
CANDT
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Technologies within transnational social activist communities: an ethnographic study of the european social forum
ICT support for transnational social movements and civil society organizations is an important field of research: not only due to the increased political importance of this sector...
Saqib Saeed, Markus Rohde, Volker Wulf
CANDT
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Hometown websites: continuous maintenance of cross-border connections
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) become particularly relevant in contexts where place-based communities get dispersed and migrants look for ways to keep strong con...
Luís A. Castro, Victor M. Gonzalez
CANDT
2009
13 years 8 months ago
wConnect: a facebook-based developmental learning community to support women in information technology
The under-representation of women in computer and information science (CIS) has created a crisis in availability of qualified CIS professionals and diversity of perspectives. Many...
Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll, Dejin Zhao, Tim...
CANDT
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Understanding collective content: purposes, characteristics and collaborative practices
User-created media content is being increasingly shared with the communities people belong to. The content has a role of a motivator in social interaction within the communities. ...
Thomas Olsson
CANDT
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Social capital, social network and identity bonds: a reconceptualization
We argue that along with social network analysis researchers can also benefit from looking at the identity bonding perspective. In this paper, by synthetic and critical reviewing ...
Hao Jiang, John M. Carroll
CANDT
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Supporting community in third places with situated social software
The Community Collage (CoCollage) is designed to cultivate community in a caf
Joseph F. McCarthy, Shelly Farnham, Yogi Patel, Sa...
CANDT
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Facilitating participatory decision-making in local communities through map-based online discussion
Geographic information systems and online mapping technologies have been widely used for supporting participatory decision-making in local communities. However, limited studies ha...
Bo Yu, Guoray Cai
CANDT
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Active artifacts as bridges between context and community knowledge sources
The aim of the paper is twofold: i) understanding how to provide additional information that is reflective of current organizational context in knowledge production and use; ii) p...
Federico Cabitza, Carla Simone