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From Publics to Communities: Researching the Path of Shared Issues Through ICT

Ludwig, Thomas ; Pipek, Volkmar ; Reuter, Christian (2016)
From Publics to Communities: Researching the Path of Shared Issues Through ICT.
In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing (JCSCW), 25 (2-3)
doi: 10.1007/s10606-016-9252-y
Artikel, Bibliographie

Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

In recent years, citizens' movements such as the Arab Spring or Euromaidan protests have clearly shown that, whenever affected —- whether negatively or positively —- by the state and government decisions, citizens act to deal with the shared issues. Groups of people who organize themselves to address (mainly political) issues were defined as a `public' by the philosopher John Dewey. He believed it is necessary to improve communication to create a `Great Community' as a cohesive group of a public. Although information and communication technologies (ICT) lead to ambivalent effects on pursuing this goal and often distract the mass of people from discussing these issues, we argue that nowadays ICT can improve communication and has the potential to foster the detection of issues and therefore promote the (trans-)formation of a public into an issue-based community. As our foundation we took a literature study covering the formation of publics and their potential to evolve into communities, as well as their interplay with technology. This formed the basis for the development of our operational model that `follows the issues' for capturing the (trans-)formation of a public. Based on our model, we outline different perspectives on detecting shared issues as early indicators for publics based on ICT and derive implications for researching this process from a practical perspective.

Typ des Eintrags: Artikel
Erschienen: 2016
Autor(en): Ludwig, Thomas ; Pipek, Volkmar ; Reuter, Christian
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: From Publics to Communities: Researching the Path of Shared Issues Through ICT
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 2016
Ort: Norwell, MA, USA
Verlag: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing (JCSCW)
Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: 25
(Heft-)Nummer: 2-3
Veranstaltungsort: Norwell, MA, USA
DOI: 10.1007/s10606-016-9252-y
URL / URN: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10606-016-9252-y
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

In recent years, citizens' movements such as the Arab Spring or Euromaidan protests have clearly shown that, whenever affected —- whether negatively or positively —- by the state and government decisions, citizens act to deal with the shared issues. Groups of people who organize themselves to address (mainly political) issues were defined as a `public' by the philosopher John Dewey. He believed it is necessary to improve communication to create a `Great Community' as a cohesive group of a public. Although information and communication technologies (ICT) lead to ambivalent effects on pursuing this goal and often distract the mass of people from discussing these issues, we argue that nowadays ICT can improve communication and has the potential to foster the detection of issues and therefore promote the (trans-)formation of a public into an issue-based community. As our foundation we took a literature study covering the formation of publics and their potential to evolve into communities, as well as their interplay with technology. This formed the basis for the development of our operational model that `follows the issues' for capturing the (trans-)formation of a public. Based on our model, we outline different perspectives on detecting shared issues as early indicators for publics based on ICT and derive implications for researching this process from a practical perspective.

Freie Schlagworte: A-Paper,CSCW,EmerGent,HCI,Kooperation,SMO
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 20 Fachbereich Informatik
20 Fachbereich Informatik > Wissenschaft und Technik für Frieden und Sicherheit (PEASEC)
Hinterlegungsdatum: 08 Jan 2019 13:52
Letzte Änderung: 18 Nov 2021 15:20
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