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Structure and Overlaps of Communities in Networks
One of the main organizing principles in real-world social, information and technological networks is that of network communities, where sets of nodes organize into densely linked clusters. Even though detection of such communities is of great interest, understanding the structure … Continue reading
COMMUNEcating in the Spaces In-Between – Creating New Understandings of Organizing and Communicative Practice
This essay describes the authors’ efforts to engage disciplinary calls for greater diversity through the construction of an international online community and conference, COMMUNEcation. They describe the commitments and goals of the community and conference, the construction of the COMMUNEcating … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Community, ICT technologies
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Distributed communities and nodal subjects
Drawing upon cognitive science and systems theory, this article examines a number of issues commonly undertaken in theorizing “online communities.” The thesis is that current approaches to online community that focus on specific online “places,” such as LamdaMOO, may overlook … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Community, Maturana, Systems, Systems thinking, Varela
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Social innovation, governance and community building
This publication contains the final report of the project ‘Social innovation, governance and community building’, whose work has primarily contributed to the area ‘Towards social cohesion in Europe’. The report brings the attention onto the re-emergence of old basic needs. … Continue reading
Posted in Community change, Governance, Social innovation
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Uncovering space-independent communities in spatial networks
Read Many complex systems are organized in the form of a network embedded in space. Important examples include the physical Internet infrastructure, road networks, flight connections, brain functional networks, and social networks. The effect of space on network topology has … Continue reading
Ants Are Talking To Us – Binding in community, self-organizing and survival
Read Scientists at Georgia Tech recently reported this fascinating example of altruistic behavior in the animal kingdom as a survival mechanism. They reported that the dreaded Amazonian fire ant when swept up by the seasonal floodwaters came together by the … Continue reading
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Wikipedia – community or social movement?
In recent years a new realm for study of political and sociological phenomena has appeared, the Internet, contributing to major changes in our societies during its relatively brief existence. Within cyberspace, organizations whose existence is increasingly tied to this virtual … Continue reading
Civic Engagement and the Restoration of Community – Changing the Nature of the Conversation
Read This booklet is written for citizens who care for the well being of their community. It is for those people who want to live in a neighborhood and a city that works for all its citizens and who have … Continue reading
Social poetics as a relational practice – Creating resourceful communities
Read Our overall interest here, is in those kinds of things that people can only do together that they cannot possibly do apart, in isolation from each other. Our interests resonate with the themes and topics expressed in the epigraph … Continue reading
Civilian capacity in the aftermath of conflict
Read As communities emerge from conflict, they often face a critical shortage of capacities needed to secure a sustainable peace — the core capacities to run a government, to re-establish institutions of justice, to reintegrate demobilizing fighters, to revitalize the … Continue reading
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