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Abstract | ||
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Critics have argued that information and communication tech- nologies (ICTs) disconnect people from their social networks and reduce public participation. Research in support of this perspective has been biased by two assumptions. The first is a tendency to priv- ilege the Internet as a social system removed from the other ways people communicate. The second is a tendency to favor broadly supportive strong social ties. Survey and ethnographic observa- tions from Netville, a 2-year community networking experiment, suggest that weak, not strong ties experience growth as a result of ICTs. By examining a unique and underexplored stage in the life cycle of a community networking project, the end of a network- ing trial, this article demonstrates how ICTs facilitate community participation and collective action (a) by creating large, dense net- works of relatively weak social ties and (b) through the use of ICTs as an organizing tool. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2003 | Inf. Soc. | computer-mediated communication,collective action,weak ties,community informatics,social networks,social ties,community networking,computer mediated communication,life cycle,social system,social network |
Field | DocType | Volume |
Collective action,Participant observation,Social network,Public participation,Sociology,Public relations,Computer-mediated communication,Social system,Interpersonal ties,Community informatics | Journal | 19 |
Issue | Citations | PageRank |
5 | 24 | 9.58 |
References | Authors | |
1 | 1 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Keith N. Hampton | 1 | 187 | 32.19 |