Necessities For Building Community

This paper provides a good overview of existing online and offline community research and discusses the need for a design methodology for community development. It includes some interesting thoughts about how participatory design might be useful in helping users feel ownership of community tools to increase their success rates. It also introduces a concept that was new to me, sociocultural animation.

Connectivity does not ensure community: on social capital, networks and communities of place, 2003
Marcus Foth
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