Community Development Journal issue on Community Informatics

Posted by on February 24, 2006

The Journal of the Community Development Society is devoted to improving the knowledge and practice in the field of purposive community change. Its purpose is to disseminate information on theory, research and practice. Vol. 36, No. 1, 2005 is a special issue on Community Informatics and Community Development with Kenneth E. Pigg as Guest Editor.

The table of contents is below. For more information, visit http://www.comm-dev.org or contact Ted Bradshaw, Managing Editor, Phone: (530) 754-9161, Email: tkbradshaw@ucdavis.edu

This issue furthers the exploration of community informatics and community development by providing a number of illustrative and challenging articles about both application and critical thinking.

Introduction: Community Informatics and Community Development
Kenneth E. Pigg, Guest Editor

Bowling Alone but Online Together: Social Capital in E-Communities
James K. Scott and Thomas G. Johnson

Library and Information Science (LIS) and Community Development: The Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Towards a Social Equity Agenda
Bharat Mehra

Information Technology and Community-Level Socio-Economic Development
Greg Laudeman

Internet Purchases by Rural Residents: Implications for Community Development
Norman Walzer and Justin Colavito

Do Information Communication Technologies Promote Rural Economic Development?
Kenneth E. Pigg and Laura D. Crank

Participatory Action Research for Electronic Community Networking Projects
Larry Stillman

Building Knowledge, Building Community: Integrating Internet Access to Secondary Data as Part of the Community Development Process
Julie N. Zimmerman and Alissa Meyer

The Technology Opportunities Program (TOP): Networking our Nation–A Decade of Lessons Learned
Amy Borgstrom, Don Druker, and Judith Sparrow.