Doug Schuler based in Seattle (US) , and Peter Day In Brighton (UK), have managed over recent years to combine both academic and practical work on community and social uses of new technologies. Doug has just posted to an number of mailing lists the contents of two books forthcoming next year.
Since the lists have wide membership and archives I don't think it is breaching any publishing confidences to offer the contents here. Good of Doug and Peter to offer early alerts that might help others shape their own contents to provide some complementary content
Doug wrote
As many of you know, Peter Day and I have been editing two books about what people are doing with computers to support community work, social change, etc. Both books will be out in 2004 and (I can tell you) we'll both be quite happy to see them actually published. I've enclosed the tables of contents below FYI. The reason that I'm sending this out now is that both publishers are asking for a list of people who would like to be reviewers for the book. We'd also like to know any journals that should receive a copy.
Thanks in advance!!
--- Doug (Seattle) and Peter (Brighton)
Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civil Society in Cyberspace
Edited by Doug Schuler and Peter Day
MIT Press 2004
1 A New Public Sphere: Opportunities and Challenges, Doug Schuler and Peter Day
Civilizing the Network Society
2 Cyberspace, Power and Globalization, Oliver Boyd-Barrett
3 Shaping Technology for the "Good Life": The Technological Imperative Versus the Social Imperative, Gary Chapman
4 Towards a Global Billboard Society, Cees Hamelink
Global Tales of the Civil Network Society
5 A Census of Public Computing in Toledo, Ohio, Kate Williams and Abdul Alkalimat
6 The Rise and Fall of Amsterdam's Digital City, Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens
7 Community Networks Go Virtual: Tracing the Evolution of ICT in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, Susana Finquelievich
8 Civic Networking in a Hostile Environment: Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia, Veran Matic
9 Rethinking Telecenters, Microbanks and Applied IT for Rural Development, Scott Robinson
10 The Role of CNs in Shaping the Network Society: Enabling People to Develop their own Projects, Fiorella De Cindio
Building a New Public Sphere in Cyberspace
11 Information Technology and the Public Sphere, Craig Calhoun
12 What Do We Need To Know about the Future we're creating? Technobiographical Reflections, Howard Rheingold
13 Libraries, Civil Society, & the Public Sphere, Nancy Kranich
14 The Soil of Cyberspace: Historical Archeologies of the BEV and SCN, David Silver
15 Globalization and Media Democracy: The Case of the Independent Media Centers, Douglas Morris
16 Prospects for a New Public Sphere, Peter Day and Doug Schuler
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Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action / Global Interaction
Edited by Peter Day and Douglas Schuler
Routledge, 2004
1. Creating a New Public Sphere: the expectations and challenges facing community uses of ICTs, Peter Day & Doug Schuler
The Network Society
2. Globalization, Cyberspace and the Public Sphere, Oliver
Boyd-Barrett
3. Cybersobriety: how a commercially driven internet
threatens the foundations of democratic self-governance and
what to do about it, Richard E Sclove
4. Welcome to 1927: The Creation of Property Rights and
Internet Domain Name Policy in Historical Perspective,
Christian Sandvig
5. The Implications of Online Commercial Gatekeeping for Diversity in Cyberspace, Eszter Hargittai
Snapshots of Community practice
6. A Participative Approach to Promoting Health in Communities, Audrey Marshall.
7. Cybercafes, telecenters and the expanding digital culture
in Latin America, Scott Robinson
8. Participatory Design of Information Strategies in El Salvador, Christina Courtright.
9. A Local Census of Public Access to ICTs, Abdul Alkalimat.
An Emerging Community Technology
10. Citizenship & Public Access Internet Use: beyond the field of dreams, Ellen Balka & Brian J. Peterson.
11. Universal Service and the Human Right to Communicate, William J. McIver, Jr.
12. Community Building and Community Technology: an asset-based approach, Nicol Turner and Randal Pinkett.
13. Next Generation Community Networks and User Participation, Murali Venkatesh, Julia Nosovitch and Wayne Miner
14. Community Informatics Systems: a meeting place for useful research, Wal Taylor & Stuart Marshall
Conclusions
15. Integrating Policy, Research and Practice, Peter Day and Doug Schuler
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