community_informatics


 * Community informatics & virtual community informatics**

Michael Gurstein (2000) defined community informatics CI as [//insert definition//]

Michael Bieber, Douglas Engelbart, Jenny Preece, and others presented a paper //Virtual community knowledge evolution// (Bieber, Engelbart, Furuta, Hiltz, Noll, Preece, et al., 2001), as part of the 'Community Informatics Minitrack,' at the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Gurstein also edited papers presented at the 2003 workshop on (virtual) community informatics, (e.g. Takeda, 2003); Aïmeur, Brassard, & Paquet, 2003). Despite all this, and even at least one Ph.D (e.g. Tharp, 2005), community informatics has not gained the popularity or attention of CoPs, at least not in the worlds of blogging, wikis, knowledge management; similarly CI seems to have little to do with research on social tagging ontologies.

[//todo// be more explicit.]


 * External links**
 * []
 * [] Journal of Community Informatics


 * References**

Aïmeur, E., Brassard, G., & Paquet, S. (2003, May). //Using personal knowledge publishing to facilitate sharing across communities//. Paper presented at the 3rd International Workshop on (Virtual) Community Informatics: Electronic Support for Communities - Local, Virtual and Communities of Practice, Amsterdam.

Bieber, M., Engelbart, D., Furuta, R., Hiltz, S. R., Noll, J., Preece, J., et al. (2001, January). //Virtual community knowledge evolution//. Paper presented at the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, (Community Informatics Minitrack), Hawaii.

Bieber, M., Im, I., Rice, R., Goldman-Segall, R., Paul, R., Stohr, E., et al. (2002, January 7-10). //Towards knowledge-sharing and learning in virtual professional communities//. Paper presented at the Thirty Fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Community Informatics Minitrack), Big Island, HI.

Civille, R., Bieber, M., Gurstein, M., Kolko, B., Silver, D., & White, N. (2002). //A vision for virtual community informatics//, []

Gurstein, M. (2000). //Community informatics: Enabling communities with information and communications technologies//. Hershey, PA: Idea Group.

Harris, R., Bieber, M., Vogel, D. R., Taylor, W., & Gurstein, M. (2002). //Community informatics//. Paper presented at the Thirty Fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

Takeda, H. (2003, May). //An introduction to building a web based community platform//. Paper presented at the 3rd International Workshop on (Virtual) Community Informatics: Electronic Support for Communities - Local, Virtual and Communities of Practice, Amsterdam.

Tharp, K. (2005). //An Individual-Centered Approach to the Design and Implementation of an Online Community Network//. Ph.D thesis, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton. Retrieved June 30, 2005, via []