Introduction: Bridging Communities

Bridging among Ethnic Communities by Cross-cultural Communities of Practice

The integration of immigrants is a big challenge for western societies. In this paper we describe how to bridge between ethnically defined communities by means of computer-supported project work. Our approach is grounded in socio-cultural theories of learning, especially Community of Practice (CoP). To evaluate our approach, we have built up a computer club in a multi cultural neighbourhood of ...

Bridging Software Communities through Social Networking

074 0 -74 5 9 /13 / $ 31. 0 0 © 2 013 I E E E Over the past decade, the advent of social networking has fundamentally altered the landscape of how software is designed, developed, and used. It has expanded how communities of software stakeholders communicate, collaborate, learn from, and coordinate with one another. In many cases, social networking has eliminated boundaries and upended traditio...

Introduction: bridging the imaging gap with information.

Introduction to Virtual Communities Minitrack

Virtual Communities have been studied from a variety of perspectives. Examples range from communities of interest to communities of practice, from gaming to transaction communities. More specifically, community building and community management may be factors of key success in the digital economy and may represent new business models in the digital economy, as well as being new venues of social...

An Introduction to Communities of Practice