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Constructing and sharing memory : community informatics,
identity and empowerment
Edited by Larry Stillman and Graeme Johanson
Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007
ISBN: 9781847182777
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Book description
Community Informatics is a developing field which brings
together understandings about the interaction of communities and information
and communication technologies from fields as diverse as Management and
Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences, Community
Development, Sociology, or Social and Community Welfare. A key assumption of
community informatics is that technologies can be used for positive social
change and development, particularly with disadvantaged communities or
communities that hitherto, have not had a public voice. The volume
brings together international perspectives around defining and debating the
idea of community memory which, as Alex Byrne, President of the
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions observed
in his splendid and wide-ranging Introduction: "community memories are
multilayered, changeable, conflicting and contested", and the
multi-layering, changeability and contest between different players provide
fertile theoretical and practical ground for Community Informatics and its
interdisciplinary cousins.
About the author
Dr Larry Stillman is a Senior Research Fellow at
Caulfield School of Information Technology, Faculty of Information
Technology, Monash University.
Associate Professor Graeme Johanson is also from Caulfield School
of Information Technology, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash
University.
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