Knowledge communities edited by Javier Echeverria, Andoni Alonso, and Pedro J. Oiarzabal. - 1st ed. - Reno, Nev. Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno c2011. - 260 p. ill. 25 cm. - Conference papers series no. 6 .

Conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : from communities of practice to knowledge communities / Javier Echeverria, Andoni Alonso, and Pedro J. Oiarzabal -- Science -- Epistemopolis : from knowledge communities to knowledge cities / Javier Echeverria -- Climate change and knowledge communities / Mari Carmen Gallastegui and Ibon Galarraga -- The ikastola from community to knowledge community : learning and organizational changes / Alfonso Unceta and Marcelino Masa -- Knowledge communities, structural contexts, and innovation spaces / Ander Gurrutxaga and Alvaro Luna -- Free knowledge -- Knowledge communities : from conceptual issues to ethical-political questions / Carl Mitcham -- System error : liberate memory! / Natxo Rodriguez -- Free software explains everything / Christopher Kelty -- Right to know, new technologies, and new communities of citizenship / Andoni Alonso and Antonio Lafuente -- Arts -- Two Basque sculptors / Peter Selz -- Paris, New York, and the Basque international art community / Anna Maria Guasch and Joseba Zulaika -- Online -- Online knowledge crowds and communities / Caroline Haythornthwaite -- The online social networks of the Basque diaspora : fast forwarded, 2005-2009 / Pedro J. Oiarzabal.

"Collection of articles from the Knowledge Communities Conference on information cultures and communities"--Provided by publisher.

9781877802973 (hardcover)

2010045337


Information Technology--Social aspects.--Congresses.
Computers and civilization.--Congresses.
Community life--Congresses.
Knowledge Management--Congresses.
Communities of practice--Congresses.
Information society--Congresses.

HM851 / .K596 2011

303.4833 / K733