Community Informatics: Enabling Communities With Information and Communications Technologies

by Michael Gurstein (Editor)

Community informatics is an approach for linking economic and social development at the community level to opportunities that technologies present. This introduction to the discipline examines issues such as trends, controversies and challenges facing the community in the 21st century.

596 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Eric Phetteplace]

Some of these essays are really, really great, with potent quotes and some pretty solid case studies. In general, my only quibble is that it has an European focus and case studies, while practical, can be so tiny that it's hard to extrapolate theory from them or even tangible praxis. Still, one of the best textbooks I've ever seen.