The Capability Approach and Community Informatics

Larry Stillman, Tom Denison: The Capability Approach and Community Informatics

This pre-publication paper is to appear in The Information Society.  Please be aware it may be still subject to some editing. The citation is not yet available. Only cite from the published version, i.e. this version is only for reference.

Stillman-Denison Capability Approach ( right click on [...]

Using Interviews Effectively in Community Informatics

This is a  paper from some years ago about techniques for good interviews. It’s basic, but I think there are some basic rules that need to be followed in the collection of interview data. Technology has moved on a bit. You can now use Livescribe for recording and notetaking, but Express Scribe is still a [...]

Power, Communities, and Community Informatics: a meta-study

Arnold, M., & Stillman, L. (2013). Power, Communities, and Community Informatics: a meta-study. The Journal of Community Informatics, 12(1), (e-journal).

Be alert, but not alarmed. My name is missing from the body of the article, but not the abstract. It is an error that is being fixed. Just scroll down in the interim.

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Book review: Migration, diaspora, and information technology in global societies

Stillman, L. (2012). Review of Fortunati, L, Pertierra, R, & Vincent, J (2012). Migration, diaspora, and information technology in global societies. information, Communication & Society. (DOI:10.1080/1369118X.2013.763835)

Review

Books--a Palestinian tale

The plunder of books and how libraries might respond.

This is a story of a now old book and its connections to war, displacement, cultural destruction; the possibilities of an apology and reconciliation; and the remarkable things that connectivity can achieve.  This is about my efforts to track the  original owner of a book that came [...]