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Community: from neighborhood to network

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 48, Issue 10

Pages 53 - 55

https://doi.org/10.1145/1089107.1089137

Published: 01 October 2005 Publication History

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Communities are networks of interpersonal ties that provide sociability, support, information, a sense of belonging, and social identity. Well into the 20th century, communities were equated with neighborhoods---bounded groups of people living near each other. This neighborhood-centered view of community made only partial sense because people have always had long-distance community ties either by traveling themselves or through connections with soldiers, artisans, peddlers, traders, marriage partners, shepherds, and the rich.

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Community: from neighborhood to network
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business

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Communications of the ACM Volume 48, Issue 10

The digital society

October 2005

100 pages

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DOI:10.1145/1089107

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