1. 1 UC2b & Community and disaster September 17, 2009

2. 2 1. What is Community Informatics CI: the study or practice regarding the continuity of local, historical communities meeting the transformation of information technologies Libraries by reinventing themselves (I&R, job centers, OPACs) invented community networks (made of silicon- plus-carbon) From social informatics comes three key ideas: network society, hacker ethic, and digital divide …the LOCAL community is the central focus here

3. 3 2. Community: ‘Race’, place and history 1.Science says, One race, the human race. Our species has always migrated, our differences are within group not between group. No one trait is found across a group. 2.Racism is real … What to do? Stay educated (on past, present, future) … Practice diversity in curriculum, profession, library 3.Class: an emergent phenomenon, as well as a categorical or positional reality, thanks to techno-economic changes 4.Root Shock: Severing people’s connections to places. “The traumatic stress reaction to destruction of one’s emotional ecosystem.” Mass upheavals have ripple effect. Solution: Acknowledge. Create healing places. Displacement the 21 st C problem. 5.‘Damned by ourselves, saved by community.’

4. 4 3. Dig Div, Community as network 1.Dig Div: a fxn of the information revolution. Persistent, multidimensional & changing. CI solutions mean a) communities not individuals b) seeking sustainability 2.Society ≠ Individuals … Society = Ties ! 3.Wellman/Leighton: Urbanization brings… Community found/strong nhood networks? Community lost/no networks? Community liberated/metropolitan networks? [Q: where do space and time go in SN theory?] 4.Coleman: Closed networks build social capital So do open networks! e.g. Murchison Center

5. 5 groups as nodes strong & weak ties… dense and sparse networks 3a. Network models

6. 6 Agenda today Digital Divide (and for FTF class, UC2B) thoughts? Great work you guys –Class discussions –Notes on lectures –Wireless field reports Article up – Mitchell on Booker T. Washington Elem School Community as disaster: Murphy, Palen, Shaw –Damon, Ashley, Byeong Cheol FTF –Amanda (any others? Two students dropped) LEEP Next week Liu/Wikipedia, next project ‘X’ in Cyberspace