TY - GEN
T1 - Better home shopping or new democracy? Evaluating community network outcomes
AU - Carroll, John M.
AU - Rosson, Mary Beth
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - This is a perspective paper on community networks - sociotechnical infrastructures supporting villages, towns, and neighborhoods. Community networking is well-established, world wide, and addresses critical societal issues, such as the "crisis of community" and the sociality of the Internet. However, community network projects have not emphasized evaluation. Relatively little is known about the economic, social, and psychological consequences of community networks for the individuals, groups, and communities served. Evaluating community networks is a momentous mutual opportunity for the development of CHI evaluation methodologies and for bringing technical CHI expertise to bear on societal issues.
AB - This is a perspective paper on community networks - sociotechnical infrastructures supporting villages, towns, and neighborhoods. Community networking is well-established, world wide, and addresses critical societal issues, such as the "crisis of community" and the sociality of the Internet. However, community network projects have not emphasized evaluation. Relatively little is known about the economic, social, and psychological consequences of community networks for the individuals, groups, and communities served. Evaluating community networks is a momentous mutual opportunity for the development of CHI evaluation methodologies and for bringing technical CHI expertise to bear on societal issues.
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U2 - 10.1145/365024.365301
DO - 10.1145/365024.365301
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0035037775
SN - 1581133278
SN - 9781581133271
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 372
EP - 379
BT - Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'01
T2 - SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2001
Y2 - 31 March 2001 through 5 April 2001
ER -