The Technological Basis of Networking

2010 ◽  
pp. 35-67
Author(s):  
Sylvie Albert ◽  
Don Flournoy ◽  
Rolland LeBrasseur
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Community Collaboration ◽  
Broadband Communication ◽  
Technological Basis ◽  
User Control ◽  
User Access

This chapter pursues the following themes: • The extent to which telecommunications technology can serve as a platform for economic and social change; • The role that broadband communication can play in community collaboration and networking; • The specific technologies (networks and terminal devices) and their relative advantages and limitations; • The community applications that offer greater user access and user control; • The adverse and dysfunctional effects that can accompany technological change; • Some ideas about measuring and evaluating outcomes.

“For Everyone” Means “For No One:”: Membership Tensions in Community Collaboration

2021 ◽  
pp. 089331892110003
Author(s):  
Katherine R. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Community Collaboration ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Tension Management ◽  
Practical Implications

Prior research suggests that tensions are particularly salient in nonprofit and interorganizational contexts but rarely considers the impacts of managing these tensions. This manuscript applies a constitutive view of tensions to a community collaboration. Applied tensional analysis suggests interrelated membership tensions identified by organizational partners (grassroots/grasstops and inclusion/exclusion). Partners respond in conscious and latent ways (branding/blaming) as they seek to include organizational and community members and ultimately rely on contradictory messages (affirmation/admonition) to retain members. Findings present theoretical and practical implications for tension management, as well as constitutive implications for nonprofits dependent on organizational and community involvement to enact social change.

scholarly journals Art as "Connective Aesthetic": Creating Sites for Community Collaboration

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86
Author(s):  
Suzanne Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Community Collaboration ◽  
Arts Organizations ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Education Project ◽  
Cultural Arts ◽  
The University

This paper discusses a community-based arts education project that develops partnerships between the university and cultural arts organizations. Collaboration is inspired between preservice teachers and multidisciplinary artists by engaging these two groups in the educational process. The author advocates the use of art as a heuristic tool for examining social worlds. She demonstrates how art as "connective aesthetic" creates sites for community collaboration and provides impetus for transformation and social change.

scholarly journals Doing Research, Doing Politics: ICT Research as a Form of Activism

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Juliet Webster
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Social Restructuring ◽  
The Relationship

 Why do we do research into ICTs and society at all?  Apart from advancing our analytical understanding of technological and social change, for many researchers, social studies of technology provide a way of supplying evidence for social policy, or shaping social practice.  Even if we do not always make it explicit, for many of us, our research is both political and personal.   In this paper, I consider the ways in which social and political values shape research questions and research methods.   Drawing on examples of recent feminist and other research which has investigated the employment relations of technological change, I discuss the academic and political ambitions of the work, the recognition of interests and the involvement of stakeholders, and the relationship between researchers and ‘users’ of the research.  I reflect on the importance of revealing and explicating the politics of ICT research, particularly in the context of imminent economic and social restructuring.

scholarly journals Doing Research, Doing Politics: ICT Research as a Form of Activism

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Juliet Webster
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Social Restructuring ◽  
The Relationship

 Why do we do research into ICTs and society at all?  Apart from advancing our analytical understanding of technological and social change, for many researchers, social studies of technology provide a way of supplying evidence for social policy, or shaping social practice.  Even if we do not always make it explicit, for many of us, our research is both political and personal.   In this paper, I consider the ways in which social and political values shape research questions and research methods.   Drawing on examples of recent feminist and other research which has investigated the employment relations of technological change, I discuss the academic and political ambitions of the work, the recognition of interests and the involvement of stakeholders, and the relationship between researchers and ‘users’ of the research.  I reflect on the importance of revealing and explicating the politics of ICT research, particularly in the context of imminent economic and social restructuring.

scholarly journals Why Petroleum Did Not Save the Whales

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 237802311773921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard York
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Theory ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Whale Oil ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Unanticipated Consequences ◽  
Political Economic

Ironically, even though fossil fuels provided substitutes for the main uses of whale oil, the rise of fossil fuel use in the nineteenth century served to increase the intensity of whaling. The connections between fossil fuels and whaling are an example of the unanticipated consequences that frequently come with technological change. I draw on political-economic theory to explain why fossil fuels served to escalate rather than eliminate whaling. The case of whaling highlights the limited potential for technological developments to help overcome environmental problems without concurrent political, economic, and social change that supports conservation.

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