Connecting Canadians : investigations in community informatics / edited by Andrew Clement, Michael Gurstein, Graham Longford, Marita Moll, Leslie Regan Shade.

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ISBN:

9781926836058

9781926836423

Title:

Connecting Canadians : investigations in community informatics / edited by Andrew Clement, Michael Gurstein, Graham Longford, Marita Moll, Leslie Regan Shade.

Author:

Clement, Andrew Howard, 1947- editor.

Uniform Title:

Connecting Canadians (2012)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (518 pages)

Contents:

Connecting Canadians? Community Informatics Perspectives on Community Networking Initiatives / Context. Toward a Conceptual Framework for a Community Informatics / Keeping in Touch: A Snapshot of Canadian Community Networks and Their Users -- Report on the CRACIN Survey of Community Network Users / Canadian and US Broadband Policies: A Comparative Analysis / Conceptual Frameworks. Information Technology as Political Catalyst: From Technological Innovation to the Promotion of Social Change / "The Researcher Is a Girl" -- Tales of Bringing Feminist Labour Perspectives into Community Informatics: Practice and Evaluation / What Are Community Networks an Example Of? A Response

Community Innovation I: Participation and Inclusion. Systems Development in a Community-Based Organization: Lessons from the St. Christopher House Community Learning Network / Vancouver Community Network as a Site of Digital and Social Inclusion / Community Innovation II: Wireless Networking. Community and Municipal Wi-Fi Initiatives in Canada: Evolutions in Community Participation / Wi-Fi Publics: Defining Community and Technology at Montréal's Île Sans Fil / Wireless Broadband from Individual Backhaul to Community Service: Co-operative Provision and Related Models of Local Signal Access

Rural and Remote Broadband. "We Were on the Outside Looking In": MyKnet.org -- A First Nations Online Social Environment in Northern Ontario / A Historical Account of the Kuh-ke-nah Network: Broadband Deployment in a Remote Canadian Aboriginal Telecommunications Context / Atlantic Canadian Community Informatics: The Case of the WVDA and SmartLabrador / Reverse English: Strategies of the Keewatin Career Development Corporation in Discourse Surrounding the Knowledge-Based Economy and Society / Libraries and Community Networks. Community Networks and Local Libraries: Strengthening Ties with Communities / The Library Ideal and the Community Network: Prospects for New Technologies in the Public Library

Public Policy. Community Networking Experiences with Government Funding Programs: Service Delivery Model or Sustainable Social Innovation? / Communautique: Action and Advocacy for Universal Digital Access / There and Back to the Future Again: Community Networks and Telecom Policy Reform in Canada, 1995-2010 / Community Partners and Case Study Sites / A Brief History of the Community Access Program: From Community Economic Development to Social Cohesion to Digital Divide / The Federal Connecting Canadians Initiative, 1995-2007: A Brief Overview

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Subject Term:

Information technology -- Social aspects -- Canada.

Telecommunication -- Social aspects -- Canada.

Computer networks -- Social aspects -- Canada.

Community life -- Technological innovations -- Canada.

Social change -- Canada.

Added Author:

Clement, Andrew Howard, 1947-

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

Edmonton, AB :

AU Press,

[2012]

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Summary

Connecting Canadians represents the work of the Community Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN), the largest national and international research effort to examine the burgeoning field of community informatics, a cross-disciplinary approach to the mobilization of information and communications technologies (ICT) for community change.

Author Notes

Clement Andrew :

Andrew Clement is a professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, with a cross-over appointment in the Department of Computer Science.Gurstein Michael :

Michael Gurstein is the director of the Center for Community Informatics Research, Training, and Development in Vancouver.Longford Graham :

Graham Longford has been a research fellow and coinvestigator for CRACIN and CWIRP.Moll Marita :

Marita Moll is a researcher and freelance writer who writes about telecommunications policy and community networking in Canada.Shade Leslie Regan :

Leslie Regan Shade is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University.Andrew Clement is a professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, with a cross-over appointment in the Department of Computer Science. Michael Gurstein is the director of the Center for Community Informatics Research, Training, and Development in Vancouver. Graham Longford has been a research fellow and coinvestigator for CRACIN and CWIRP. Marita Moll is a researcher and freelance writer who writes about telecommunications policy and community networking in Canada. Leslie Regan Shade is an associate professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and during the CRACIN research at the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University.