Community informatics: hope or hype?
Community informatics: hope or hype?
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社区信息学：希望还是炒作？
DOI：
10.1109/hicss.2001.927117
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2001
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Bill Pitkin
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作者：
Bill Pitkin
社区信息学是利用信息和通信技术（信通技术）推进社区发展目标的一项有前途的战略。然而，重要的是，这一办法的支持者认识到，这一办法是基于这样一种假设，即技术本身可以导致积极的社会发展。这种“技术乌托邦”受到各种批评，这些批评可以分为三类：方法论的、哲学的和意识形态的。反思这些批评的含义，我们可以为“民主化”社区信息学提出一些建议。为了保持信息和通信技术有助于实现更大的社会、政治和经济公平的“希望”，有必要不要屈服于围绕这些技术发展的诱人的“炒作”。这种观点可以为“社区信息学伦理”奠定基础。
Community informatics is a promising strategy for taking advantage of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to further goals of community development. It is important, however, that proponents of this approach recognize that it is based on the assumption that technology in itself can lead to positive social development. This "techno-utopianism" is subject to various critiques, which can be grouped into three categories: methodological, philosophical and ideological. Reflecting on the implications of these critiques, we can develop several recommendations for "democratizing" community informatics. In order to retain the "hope" that ICTs can help lead to greater social, political, and economic equity, it is necessary to not succumb to the seductive "hype" that surrounds these technological developments. This perspective could lay the groundwork for an "ethics of community informatics".