Social Capital and Information Technology
Social Capital and Information Technology
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社会资本和信息技术
DOI：
10.7551/mitpress/6289.001.0001
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发表时间：
2004
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通讯作者：
V. Wulf
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作者：
M. Huysman;V. Wulf
社会资本的概念，或价值，可以从社会关系所创造的善意，相互支持，共同的语言，共同的信仰，和相互的义务感，已被应用到许多领域，从社会学到管理。然而，直到最近，信息技术和知识管理领域的研究人员才开始探索与其领域相关的社会资本概念。这本由计算机科学家、社会学家、通信专家、经济学家和其他人撰写的13篇论文集，对信息技术和社会科学的这一特定交叉点以及采用社会技术视角的必要性进行了多学科的审视。在大多数情况下，贡献者对社会资本，知识共享和社区建设的相互作用持积极态度。一些文章着眼于具体的例子，包括运动员社区的在线和面对面的关系，伊朗非政府组织之间的社会资本的建设，以及由开源运动创建的基于互联网的社区，而其他人则讨论公民和个人社区的更一般的想法。最后四篇文章研究了增强社会资本的计算机应用，包括以主题和成员为中心的通信空间，如专家咨询和循环系统，以及虚拟知识库，如答案花园和智慧珍珠。
The concept of social capital, or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill, mutual support, shared language, common beliefs, and a sense of mutual obligation, has been applied to a number of fields, from sociology to management. It is only lately, however, that researchers in information technology and knowledge management have begun to explore the idea of social capital in relation to their fields. This collection of thirteen essays by computer scientists, sociologists, communication specialists, economists, and others presents a multidisciplinary look at this particular intersection of information technology and social science and the need to adopt a sociotechnical perspective. For the most part the contributors take a positive view of the interplay of social capital, knowledge sharing, and community building. Some essays look at specific instances, including the on-line and face-to-face relationships of a community of athletes, the building of social capital among Iranian NGOs, and the Internet-based communities created by the open-source movement, while others discuss more general ideas of civic and personal communities. The last four essays examine computer applications that augment social capital, including topic- and member-centered communications spaces such as the Expert Finder and the Loops system and virtual repositories of knowledge such as the Answer Garden and Pearls of Wisdom.