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What is Imagined Communities

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Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City
The ontological community solidarity. The notion is best captured in Andersons quote; “all communities larger than primordial villages of face-to-face contact (and perhaps even these) are imagined…it is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion” (1983, p.15).
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The Figmentum Project: Appropriating Information and Communication Technologies to Animate Our Urban Fabric
Colleen Morgan (Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design, Australia)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.ch010
Abstract
This chapter explores how we may design located information and communication technologies (ICTs) to foster community sentiment. It focuses explicitly on possibilities for ICTs to create new modalities of place through exploring key factors such as shared experiences, shared knowledge and shared authorship. To contextualise this discussion in a real world setting, this chapter presents FIGMENTUM, a situated generative art application that was developed for and installed in a new urban development. FIGMENTUM is a non-service based application that aims to trigger emotional and representational place-based communities. Out of this practice-led research comes a theory and a process for designing creative place-based ICTs to animate our urban communities.
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The Creation of Online Communities and Social Networking Sites based on Constitutive Elements of Identity
Group of people who even if they have never met, belong to a community with similar interests. It is a concept initially employed by Benedict Anderson to define identity and nation.
Published in Chapter: The Creation of Online Communities and Social Networking Sites based on Constitutive Elements of Identity; From: Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management
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