The PEN project in Santa Monica: interactive communication, equality, and political action
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: information resources and democracy
New community networks: wired for change
New community networks: wired for change
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information ecologies: using technology with heart
Information ecologies: using technology with heart
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Epistemology and the socio-cognitive perspective in information science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies
Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies
Cyberspace Divide: Equality, Agency, and Policy in the Information Society
Cyberspace Divide: Equality, Agency, and Policy in the Information Society
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Community Networks--Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia
Community Networks--Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia
Digital Democracy: Discourse and Decision Making in the Information Age
Digital Democracy: Discourse and Decision Making in the Information Age
Critique of Information
Online Community Information: Creating a Nexus at Your Library
Online Community Information: Creating a Nexus at Your Library
Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action / Global Interaction
Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action / Global Interaction
How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology (Inside Technology)
How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology (Inside Technology)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Diasporic information environments: Reframing immigrant-focused information research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse
The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse
Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China
Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China
Digital Divide: A Discursive Move Away from the Real Inequities
The Information Society
Interactive acquisition and sharing: Understanding the dynamics of HIV-AIDS information networks
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Routines that ease the pain: the information world of a dialysis clinic
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Informational cities: Analysis and construction of cities in the knowledge society
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information practices of immigrants
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
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The authors review five paradigms from the discipline of community sociology (functionalism, evolution, conflict, interactionism, and exchange) to assess their potential utility for understanding everyday life information behavior and technology use. Their analysis considers the ways in which each paradigm defines the concepts of community, information, and technology. It also explores the insights offered by each paradigm regarding relationships between community and both information and technology. Accordingly, the authors highlight the ways in which existing information behavior and informatics scholarship draws from similar conceptual roots. Key insights drawn from this research, as well as remaining gaps and research questions, are examined. Additionally, they consider the limitations of each approach. The authors conclude by arguing for the value of a vigorous research program regarding information behavior and technology use in communities, particularly that which takes the community as the central unit of analysis. They consider key questions that could drive such a research program, as well as potentially fruitful conceptual and methodological approaches for this endeavor. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.