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ICTs have become a very powerful community resource, viewed by many authors in this volume as two-way mechanisms, facilitating the perpetuation of and reflecting esteemed community values. The contents of this volume make it clear that ICTs have a huge capacity for incorporation into different forms of community action, including social change, community learning, community connection, and community development. Through studying the papers in this volume, readers can learn about multiple form...
Community information services --- Community life --- Information services --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Computer networks --- Technological innovations
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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. In a world dominated by austerity politics and policies, Advising in austerity provides a lively and thought-provoking account of the conditions, consequences and challenges of advice work in the UK, presenting a rare and rich view of the world of advice giving. Based on original research it examines how advisors negotiate the private troubles of those who come to Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB) and construct ways forward. Exploring how advisors are trained, the strong contributor team reflect on the challenges facing Citizens Advice Bureaux in the future, where austerity will ensure that the need for advice services increase, while funding for such services declines.
Community information services. --- Information services --- Poverty & unemployment --- Civil rights & citizenship --- debt --- law --- citizens --- citizens advice --- austerity --- Acas --- Case study --- Employment tribunal --- Homelessness --- Labour law --- Legal aid --- Solicitor --- Unfair dismissal
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Information technology --- Community information services. --- Communication in community development. --- Computer networks --- Social epistemology. --- Epistemology, Social --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Social role --- Knowledge, Sociology of --- Community development --- Information services --- Social aspects.
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Libraries and community --- Electronic villages (Computer networks) --- Community information services --- Libraries and electronic publishing --- Social Sciences --- Library & Information Science --- Electronic publishing and libraries --- Electronic publishing --- Information services --- Communets (Computer networks) --- Community networks (Computer networks) --- Free nets (Computer networks) --- Freenets (Computer networks) --- Freespaces (Computer networks) --- Computer networks --- Telematics --- Community and libraries --- Communities --- Data processing
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Community Informatics is a developing field which brings together understandings about the interaction of communities and information and communication technologies from fields as diverse as Management and Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences, Community Development, Sociology, or Social and Community Welfare. A key assumption of community informatics is that technologies can be used for positive social change and development, particularly Other disadvantaged communities or ...
Community information services. --- Collective memory. --- Social epistemology. --- Epistemology, Social --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Social role --- Knowledge, Sociology of --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Information services
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Covering everything from getting to know a library's materials to marketing and promoting RA, this practical handbook will help you expand services immediately without adding costs or training time.
Readers' advisory services. --- Readers' advisory services --- Libraries and community --- Libraries and the Internet. --- Community information services --- Public libraries --- Electronic villages (Computer networks) --- Referral centers (Information services) --- Reference services (Libraries) --- Information services --- Internet and libraries --- Internet --- Information referral centers --- Referral services for information --- Information networks --- Communets (Computer networks) --- Community networks (Computer networks) --- Free nets (Computer networks) --- Freenets (Computer networks) --- Freespaces (Computer networks) --- Computer networks --- Telematics --- Reference services.
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"The pandemic has raised awareness of the need for universal access to high speed internet service in the United States. This book shows us that the debate about internet access is but the latest chapter in a long history of debates about universal service in the United States. This book analyzes the history, costs, and benefits of providing universal access to technologies and services, including education, postal service, telephone service, electrification, public libraries, and Internet"--
Digital divide --- Poor --- Community information services --- Discrimination in municipal services --- History. --- Information services --- Government policy --- Race discrimination in municipal services --- Municipal services --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Divide, Digital --- GDD (Global digital divide) --- Global digital divide --- Information society --- Economic conditions --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects
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Devoted to research and scholarship in communication and media studies, journalism.
Social Sciences --- Humanities --- Communication --- Media studies --- Journalism --- Community information services --- Communication in community development --- Periodicals --- Social aspects --- Southern Africa --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Information services --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Africa, Southern --- Community information services. --- Social aspects. --- South Africa. --- Communication and culture --- África del Sur --- África do Sul --- Afrika Selatan --- Afrique du Sud --- Azania --- Dél-Afrika --- Dél-Afrikai Köztársaság --- Derom Afriḳah --- Dorem-Afriḳe --- Güney Afrika --- Güney Afrika Cumhuriyeti --- iRiphabhulikhi yeNingizimu Afrika --- iRiphabhuliki yaseNingizimu Afrika --- iRiphabliki yeSewula Afrika --- iRiphabliki yomZantsi Afrika --- I͡U.A.R. --- I͡UAR --- I͡Uzhno-Afrikanskai͡a Respublika --- I͡Uzhno-Afrikanskiĭ Soi͡uz --- Janūb Ifrīqiy --- Jihoafrická republika --- Juhoafrická republika --- Jumhūrīyat Janūb Ifrīqiy --- Južná Afrika --- Južnoafrički savez --- Minami Afurika Kyōwakoku --- Nan Fei --- Nan Fei Gongheguo --- Nanfei --- Nanfei Gongheguo --- Repabliki ya Afrika-Borwa --- Rephaboliki ya Aforika Borwa --- Rephaboliki ya Afrika Borwa --- Repubblica del Sud Africa --- Republic of South Africa --- República da África do Sul --- República de Sudáfrica --- Republiek van Suid-Afrika --- Republik Südafrika --- Republik Suedafrika --- Republika Południowej Afryki --- République Sud Africaine --- Riphabliki ya Afrika Dzonga --- Riphabul̳iki ya Afurika Tshipembe --- RSA --- Sud África --- Sudáfrica --- Südafrika --- Suid-Afrika --- Unie van Suid-Afrika --- Union of South Africa
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