http://hdl.handle.net/2142/5137 Publications and Research from the Community Informatics Research Lab Search the Channel search https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2142/8863 Title: Prairienet and community networking: An annotated bibliography <br/> <br/>Authors: LoDolce, Kristin; Ayad, Moustafa; Ginger, Jeff; McCauley, Steven; Thompson, Alyson; Williams, Kate; Jamali, Boshra <br/> <br/>Abstract / Summary: This Lab Note is a working bibliography, prepared as part of a book we are researching and writing about Prairienet. Other authors include Paul Adams, Ann Bishop, Karen Fletcher, Greg Newby, and Martin Wolske. Prairienet is the 15-year-old electronic community network in Champaign, Illinois initiated by faculty at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. The book project formed part of the graduate-level course LIS490CIC Community Informatics Corps, taught in Spring 2008 by Kate Williams. <br/> <br/>Keywords: Bibliography; Prairienet; Community networking Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/8862 Title: The future of the Romanian library <br/> <br/>Authors: Şerbănuţă, Claudia <br/> <br/>Abstract / Summary: Thanks to print and electronic technology and prompted by planetary issues of all kinds, everyone today is part of a global discourse. The Community Informatics Lab itself includes students and scholars from China, India, Iran, Iraq, Japan, and Syria, as well as the United States. And we see one of the tasks of community informatics as to help design the future of public computing, which includes the modern library. Accordingly, this Lab Note reflects the Community Informatics Lab as catalyst. A discussion in the lab encouraged the author, a future librarian and student of community informatics, to write this article for a publication in her home country (and language). We also encouraged her to translate it, knowing that other countries could learn from the experience of Romania, however unique it has been. An earlier version was published in Romanian in the weekly Dilema Veche (Old Dilemma) http://www.dilemaveche.ro/index.php?nr=215&cmd=articol&id=7953. Cristina Stanciu, PhD candidate in the English Department at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provided invaluable help with translation. <br/> <br/>Keywords: Romania; Romanian Libraries Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/8861 Title: A bibliography and webliography of Puerto Rican Chicago <br/> <br/>Authors: Bahnsen, Brooke; Williams, Kate; Bishop, Ann Peterson <br/> <br/>Abstract / Summary: This Lab Note reflects the first stage of a three-year research project known as eChicago. Our interest here is to examine the population of Chicago, in particular a subset of ethnicities and community areas, and analyze how these communities are navigating the digital age. Stage one is to understand the communities today and discover how they are represented in cyberspace. Thus our initial products include a webliography/bibliography on each community and we are honored to partner with experts on these communities. eChicago is funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the full title of the project is Chicago community informatics: Places, uses, resources. <br/> <br/>Keywords: Bibliography; Webliography; Chicago; Puerto Rican community Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/8860 Title: A bibliography and webliography of Mexican Chicago <br/> <br/>Authors: Bahnsen, Brooke; Hernández, Héctor; Williams, Kate <br/> <br/>Abstract / Summary: This Lab Note reflects the first stage of a three-year research project known as eChicago. This project is funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the full title of the project is Chicago community informatics: Places, Uses, Resources. Our interest here is to examine the population of Chicago, in particular a subset of ethnicities and community areas, and analyze how these communities are navigating the digital age. Stage one is to understand the communities today and discover how they are represented in cyberspace. Thus our initial products include a webliography/bibliography on each community and we are honored to partner with experts on these communities. <br/> <br/>Keywords: Bibliography; Webliography; Chicago, Ill.; Mexican community Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/5357 Title: A bibliography and webliography of Japanese Chicago <br/> <br/>Authors: Bahnsen, Brooke; Okuizumi, Eizaburo; Williams, Kate <br/> <br/>Abstract / Summary: This Lab Note reflects the first stage of a three-year research project known as eChicago. This project is funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the full title of the project is Chicago community informatics: Places, Uses, Resources. Our interest here is to examine the population of Chicago, in particular a subset of ethnicities and community areas, and analyze how these communities are navigating the digital age. Stage one is to understand the communities today and discover how they are represented in cyberspace. Thus our initial products include a webliography/bibliography on each community and we are honored to partner with experts on these communities. Further work entails surveying the communities for public access computing sites (Places), interviewing members of community organizations on how they use digital tools (Uses), and helping a subset of these groups create digital resources that represent their cultural heritage and identity (Resources). The project’s theoretical framework centers on social capital and social networks. <br/> <br/>Keywords: Bibliography; Chicago, Ill.; Japanese; eChicago Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/5356 Title: CT on E: Beginning a global community technology and community media portal <br/> <br/>Authors: Ritzo, Christopher; Williams, Kate <br/> <br/>Keywords: community media; community informatics; Community Technology on Earth Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/5141 Title: A bibliography and webliography of Arab Chicago <br/> <br/>Authors: Jamali, Boshra; Williams, Kate <br/> <br/>Abstract / Summary: This Lab Note reflects the first stage of a three-year research project known as eChicago. This project is funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the full title of the project is Chicago community informatics: Places, uses, resources. Our interest here is to examine the population of Chicago, in particular a subset of ethnicities and community areas, and analyze how these communities are navigating the digital age. Stage one is to understand the communities today and discover how they are represented in cyberspace. Thus our initial products include a webliography/bibliography on each community. <br/> <br/>Keywords: Chicago, Ill.; Arab Chicago; Bibliography Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/5140 Title: Using the TOP Data Archive to study human resilience: How community-based organizations used social networks and information technology for hurricane recovery <br/> <br/>Authors: Williams, Kate <br/> <br/>Abstract / Summary: The TOP Data Archive contains information from and about 606 projects which won grants from the Technology Opportunities Program of the US Department of Commerce. The information was originally collected to facilitate the work of the agency. Each TOP project was a partnership of local organizations aiming to use information technology to address local issues. Awards were made from 1994 to 2005. A dataset, however, is often a doorway to new data collection, and this study of how local organizations responded to the 2005 hurricanes is an example. Examining a subset of TOP projects that were in the path of disaster, the study advances a theory of community resilience. <br/> <br/>Keywords: U.S. Technology Opportunities Program; Social Networks; Hurricane Katrina Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/5139 Title: Memory and archives in community informatics: Assembling and using the records of the U.S. Technology Opportunities Program, 1994-2005 <br/> <br/>Authors: Williams, Kate <br/> <br/>Abstract / Summary: This paper connects the concepts of memory, archives, and community informatics by describing and analyzing the experience of constructing an archive of community informatics material. It thus reports the research work of creating a dataset which can be used by many scholars in our field and beyond. The primary purpose of the paper is to stimulate some new thinking about a shared community informatics research agenda, in the context of policy shifts. <br/> <br/>Keywords: U.S. Technology Opportunities Program; community informatics Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:58:59 GMT