CommNets 2.0: Using an evolutionary perspective to examine a statewide community networking initiative
✍ Scribed by Kathryn Clodfelter; Wayne Buente; Howard Rosenbaum
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-7870
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
In this paper, we demonstrate how Aldrich and Ruef's (2006) community evolutionary perspective can help explain preliminary data from a follow‐up website content analysis of Indiana's community networking initiative (Clodfelter, Buente, & Rosenbaum, 2006) and provide insight into the future of community networks in a Web 2.0 environment. We start by defining community networks and introduce several time‐based views of community technology initiatives. We then describe the community evolutionary perspective and propose viewing community networks as an organizational community that is subject to the evolutionary processes of variation, selection, retention, and struggle. We then apply the community evolutionary perspective to community networking activity in the United States.