Despite the promise of community involvement, cohesion and empowerment offered by local community networks (CN) using Internet Technologies, few communities in regional Australia have been able to demonstrate sustainable and vibrant CN which demonstrate increased social, cultural or self-reliance capital. The Faculty of Informatics and Communication at Central Queensland University (CQU) and a ...

This article investigates the impact of the election of community leaders in local communities (villages or suku) in Timor-Leste. After looking briefly at the impacts of suku elections on selected communities—particularly on community cohesion—and at some community responses to elections, the article discusses local capacities for managing the challenges to social order and cohesion that can fl...

The last years, there has been a great interest in detecting overlapping communities in complex networks, which is understood as dense groups of nodes featuring a low outbound density. To date, most methods used to uncover overlapping communities stem from the field of disjoint community detection by attempting to decompose the whole network into several possibly overlapping groups of nodes. In...

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OBJECTIVE This study is to examine changes in residents' physical activities, social interactions, and neighborhood cohesion after they moved to a walkable community in Austin, Texas. METHODS Retrospective surveys (N=449) were administered in 2013-2014 to collect pre- and post-move data about the outcome variables and relevant personal, social, and physical environmental factors. Walkability ...

Green infrastructure (GI) can help bring people together, engaging individuals from different social groupings that may not normally interact. Green space offers possibilities: increasing social activity, improving community cohesion, developing local attachment and lowering crime levels, particularly in deprived communities (Bell et al., 2008; Weldon et al., 2007). Certain groups in society ar...

Abstract Do Protestant missionaries affect community cohesion? This study puts forth two mechanisms that link to trusting, cooperative life: pro-social preferences and social networks. On the one hand, espouse charity, they establish regular venues of interaction. other propagate an individualist faith, provide identity along which communities may separate. The effect on cohesion is thus unclea...