Maintaining Community in the Information Age
The Importance of Trust, Place and Situated Knowledge
About this book
Introduction
By exploring the experiences of community activists and organizations working with information and communication technology (ICT) to build communities, this book offers a grounded and informed study of the role ICT plays in people's lives. The author emphasizes 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.
Keywords
communication community globalization Internet knowledge organization technology trust
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230006201
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-51108-2
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-00620-1
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