2. SOME ASSUMPTIONS &
ASSERTIONS
• Online and offline --- useless high level distinction
• Communities … Organizations … Groups … whatever
• Communities are multi-level entities that exist within
inherently competitive “multi-species” ecologies
• Networks are nice … Communities are critical
• Universities’ competitive advantage is that we’re slow and
don’t change
• You’re in this for the long haul (the long now of academic
life)
3. CASCI
CENTER FOR THE ADVANCED STUDY OF
COMMUNITIES AND INFORMATION
REALIZING THE POTENTIAL OF 21 ST
CENTURY COMMUNITIES…
4. CASCI: MISSION
• The goal of CASCI is to support research
and education focused on realizing the
potential of 21st century communities
through technology and information.
• 21st Century Communities…
• Realizing the potential…
• Advanced study…
5. 21ST CENTURY COMMUNITIES
Technology-Enhanced
Communities
Technology-
Enabled
Communities
All Communities
6. REALIZING THE
POTENTIAL OF COMMUNITIES FOR…
Commerce
Production & Experience &
Curation Technology-Enhanced Entertainment
Communities
Technology-
Enabled
Communities
Innovation & Civic & Individual
Problem Solving Well Being
Learning & Education
7. REALIZING THE
POTENTIAL OF COMMUNITIES FOR…
New Ways of Commerce Entertainment &
Working New “Lifestyles”
Production & Experience &
Curation Technology-Enhanced Entertainment
Communities
Economic Technology- Smart Cities and
Development Enabled Community
(New Industries) Communities Informatics
Innovation & Research and Civic & Individual
Citizen Science Health
Problem Solving Well Being
Communities
Learning & Education
8. ADVANCED STUDY
CASCI exists to support research and educational activities
which advance our understanding of the conceptual
foundations of communities and information and mobilize
that knowledge to have real, tangible impact
Our approach is to support these activities by creating and
maintaining the CASCI stack – a set of coordinated work
groups, projects, resources, and events.
9. THE CASCI STACK:
AN ARCHITECTURE FOR THE ADVANCED STUDY
OF COMMUNITIES AND INFORMATION
Impact Domains
Conceptual Foundations
Research Resources
Data
12. CASCI: FROM DATA TO
RESEARCH RESOURCES
• Scholarly Editions of Community Data Sets
• Supporting Dataplay
• Exploring the potential of Community Emulators
• Research Methods eMonograph series
13. BUILDING THE CASCI STACK:
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS
Conceptual Foundations
Research Resources
Data
14. COMMUNITY AND
INFORMATION FOUNDATIONS
Conceptual foundations are concepts, issues, and
approaches critical for understanding technology-enabled
and technology-enhanced communities and information,
including:
• Motivation and Participation
• Rules, Roles, and Governance
• Dialogue and Discourse
• Identity and Self-Presentation
• Boundaries and Structure
• Networks and Communities
• Community Ecologies
• Measuring and Managing
• Technologies and Platforms
• Communities and Organizations
Conceptual foundations intertwined collections of
abstractions, language, practices and people.
15. BUILDING THE CASCI STACK:
IMPACT DOMAIN WORKING GROUPS
Impact Domains
Conceptual Foundations
Research Resources
Data
16. IMPACT DOMAIN
WORKING GROUPS
• Impact Statement
We are seeking to address <recognized problem>
by changing how we <impact area>
• Impact Working Groups
• Who: 3-5 experts
• Problem experts
• Impact area experts
• Conceptual foundation experts
• Goals:
• Problem formulation & awareness
• Impact imagining
• Impact realization
• What:
• Impact projects
• Impact events
17. HAVING AN IMPACT:
BUILDING YOUR RESEARCH STACK
Impact Domains
Conceptual Foundations
Research Resources
Data
18. NEXT STEPS
• Engage CASCI
• bsbutler@umd.edu
• Twitter: CASCI
• casci.umd.edu (but not today!)
• Actively and strategically develop your own research
stack!
Hinweis der Redaktion
BBS, Computer-Mediated Communication, Cyberspace, Computer Supported Collaborative WorkOnline Communities, Web 2.0, Virtual organizationsSocial Media, Social Computing…Over the past 30 years there has been a steady stream of labels for efforts that use technology to bring together collections of people to engage in different social activities. While the labels have changed (sometime rapidly), the hope has remained the same, to use emerging information and communication technologies to enable or enhance the collective participants to mobilize their time, effort, information, and resources to accomplish one or more purposes. CASCI exists to magnify this impact. Identify and leverage the existing work and communities, highlight examples, develop resource resources and facilitate research and education efforts to realize the potential of 21st century communities.
This slide recognizes that there are (and will always be) many communities that are neither technology-enabled not technology-enhanced. Whether this situation is by choice (e.g. the Amish) or unintended (e.g. Digital Divide or developing contexts), it is important to recognize that in addition to studying and designing for existing technology-enabled communities and currently technology-enhanced communities, CSACI is interested in supporting efforts to extend the benefits of technology to new communities (that want it).
The six areas:Learning and EducationInnovation and Problem SolvingProduction and CurationCommerceEntertainment and ExperienceCivic and Individual Well Being define a multi-dimensional space the includes many of the prominent examples of communities. Note: This framing focuses on the “purposes” of the community – based on the assumption that these underying purposes are closer mapping to the intellectual domains that are the target for this initiative. This framing doesn’t identify societal problems that communities engage or are engaged in –those it would be instructive identify how communities of these different types play into the issue of addressing different problems.This framing also does not reflect structural or technical characteristics of the communities – that is reflected in the Communities and Information Foundations (C & I Foundations)
The six areas:Learning and EducationInnovation and Problem SolvingProduction and CurationCommerceEntertainment and ExperienceCivic and Individual Well Being define a multi-dimensional space the includes many of the prominent examples of communities. Note: This framing focuses on the “purposes” of the community – based on the assumption that these underying purposes are closer mapping to the intellectual domains that are the target for this initiative. This framing doesn’t identify societal problems that communities engage or are engaged in –those it would be instructive identify how communities of these different types play into the issue of addressing different problems.This framing also does not reflect structural or technical characteristics of the communities – that is reflected in the Communities and Information Foundations (C & I Foundations)
Are there other CI Foundations tags that should be prepopulated? Are these reasonable an logical?Should user generated tags be allowed? [possibly used and fed to area leads to facilitate development of areas?]