Communication at a Distance: The Influence of Print on Sociocultural Organization and Change.

Investigating recognition-based performance in an open content community: A social capital perspective

“…Aligning performance measures with motivations would be helpful to organizers and evaluators of OSS projects [19]. According to the resource-based model of social structure sustainability, online social structures should provide members with positive benefits, such as the opportunity to be influential [55], to affiliate or champion [37], and the ability to disseminate ideas rapidly [27]. While not absolutely necessary for participation, it is very important for open source participants to be recognized for their contributions [48]; thus they gain status and respect in the community.…”

Investigating Information Culture: A Comparative Case Study Research Design and Methods

“…In this study, information was conceptualised as an integral part of the communicative transaction (Kaufer and Carley, 1993). This construct was used because it emphasises the inseparability of information from its societal, cultural and organisational context: Content, context, agents and the communication transaction are inextricably bound into a single ecological system such that affecting one ultimately affects all (Kaufer and Carley, 1993, p. 88).…”

“…The perception of information as an integral part of the communicative transaction (Kaufer and Carley, 1993) is at the heart of the information continuum model (ICM) (see Figure 1). The ICM was developed as a teaching model by Barbara Reed, Don Schauder and Frank Upward of the School of Information Management and Systems, Monash University, specifically because there was no unifying theory that differentiated the management requirements for the information that is the focus of concern of librarians and recordkeepers.…”

A trust and reputation model for filtering and classifying knowledge about urban growth

“…Also some research has used geographic distance as an indicator of network density (Buskens 2002). Although technologies have apparently loosened the effect of geography by lowering the effort involved (Kaufer and Carley 1993), communities still show strong geographic patterns (Verbrugge 1983). Also, technologies have allowed people to make homophilic relations through other dimensions (Wellman et al 1996).…”