Tag Archives: communities

Identity, Communities and Citizenship

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read This Report addresses three overlapping and interlocking domains; identity, community and citizenship. The Challenge will also explore the intersection of identity and community, and identity and citizenship, and the ways in which changing technologies are likely to impact all. … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, Citizenship, Collaboration, Communication, Community, Engagement, Future learning, ICT technologies, Identity | Tagged citizenship, communities, future learning, identity | Leave a comment

Communities and Citizenship – paths for engagement

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read This paper deals with current issues in the constitution and maintenance of communities and the effect on notions of citizenship and public engagement. This review looks at a number of studies concerned with the building of communities and the … Continue reading →

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Governance of online creation communities – Provision of platforms of participation for the building of digital commons

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the governance of online creation communities. Two components can be distinguished in online creation communities: a platform of participation around which the community is generated and the providers of such a platform. … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Governance, Internet, Social change, Social movements | Tagged communities, governance, internet, social change, social movements | Leave a comment

University Education for Community and Social Change

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read Despite the growing consensus on the critical importance of grassroots organizations, and despite this major investment and growth, the field of community and social change faces a mounting crisis of leadership. There is a severe shortage of people who … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, Community, Community organizing, Education, Leadership, Social change, University | Tagged change, communities, leadership, social, university | Leave a comment

Informing Communities – Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read Technologies for acquiring and disseminating news and information are changing rapidly. Emerging media have become amazing forces for enabling people to connect. But their full potential is not yet realized in the service of geographic communities, the physical places … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Democracy, Digital age, Digital literacies, Information, Social movements | Tagged communities, digital literacy, ict, information | Leave a comment

Action Research Meets Critical Pedagogy – Theory, Practice, and Reflection

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read This article describes and critically examines the collaborative research process between an urban university’s research center and its community partners. The authors link the theoretical framework of collaborative research, participatory action research, and critical pedagogy to their personal experiences … Continue reading →

Posted in Action learning, Action research, Change, Critical pedagogy, Critical thinking, Participatory action research, Participatory methods, Participatory research, Social justice | Tagged action research, communities, critical pedagogy, university, youth | Leave a comment

The Art of Community Detection

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Giorgio Bertini

Networks in nature possess a remarkable amount of structure. Via a series of data-driven discoveries, the cutting edge of network science has recently progressed from positing that the random graphs of mathematical graph theory might accurately describe real networks to … Continue reading →