The MIT Press offers PDFs of both the preface and index of a
reader—
Social Capital and Information Technology, edited by
Marleen
Huysman and
Volker
Wulf—on their website.
This $40.00 reader appears to be fairly comprehensive and, as I search for it on Google this evening, I notice that it
is being utilized in a number of academic courses. Has anyone read it?
I also found a downloadable PDF of an earlier paper by Sarah Cummings, Richard Heeks & Marleen
Huysman—Knowledge and Learning in Online
Networks in Development: A Social Capital Perspective.
I don't normally post this type of reference here on The Social Software Weblog, but I thought some of you might find
this paper—and potentially the 'reader'—interesting. If so, let me know and I will do more of this type of posting on
the weekends.
Here's an excerpt from the abstract of the paper linked above:
"...The concept of social capital has been applied to examine the functioning of groups and societies. More recently,
it has also been applied to development and to online networks outside development. Given this background, it may offer
a useful approach for increasing understanding of online networks in development. With this objective in mind, three
non-development approaches for examining social capital in online networks and communities are reviewed. Elements of
these approaches, into which development-related aspects are incorporated, are combined to produce a framework which
aims to facilitate the analysis of social capital in online networks in a development context…"
Hope you had a lovely weekend…
