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Inaugural Issue: Winter 2007-2008 Edition - Table of Contents
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Inaugural Issue - Winter 2007-2008
Although the study of civil society has largely confined itself to the study of organizations, there is growing interest in understanding the broader contexts and enabling conditions for a healthy and effective civil society. At the same time, the spread of low cost communication systems in the last two decades has helped spur interest in applying the science of networks to social groups and social phenomena. We are pleased to announce the inaugural issue of the Journal of Networks and Civil Society. This is the second thematic issue in our journal series and is intended to complement the previous issue which focused on information technology. The peer review process was particularly rigorous for this issue, as befits an emerging topic of this nature. Authors submitted themselves to extensive criticism and revision and the results are evident in the final product. Papers include a case study of community wireless networking, the Internet as organizational mobilizer, participatory process for groups of organizations in Bolivia, and the institutionalization of technology in networks of organizations. Based on feedback from the previous journal, we have added a section entitled From the Field, to allow the editors to collect important papers that have been published elsewhere and have helped shape this field of inquiry. Authors in this section include: Linda Lehrer, Geoff Mulgan, Margaret Wheatley, Nancy White, Lisa Zyga, and Michael Gilbert. There are also over 100 annotated resources from Nonprofit Online News on topics related to networks and civil society, including Collaboration, Community Building, Knowledge and Learning, Network Analysis, Open Systems, Organizations, Personal Media, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Social Software, and Strategy. We offer our deep thanks to the people who came together for this: the practitioners and academics who have come together to push the edges of our understanding of networks and civil society, the broad range of reviewers who took seriously our challenge to them to help us select the papers that would most advance our mission, the staff of The Gilbert Center who took on one delay and learning challenge after another to bring out this journal. We hope you learn as much from it as we have. |
8 - About the Journal
9 - Guidelines for the Journal
11 - Letter From the Editor, Michael C. Gilbert
12 - About the Editor
13 - About the Authors
16 - About the Reviewers
21 - The End of the Organization
By Michael C. Gilbert
24 - Connecting the Dots: The Institutionalization of Technology in Networks of Nonprofit Organizations
By Eli Malinsky
61 - Civil Society Empowerment Through Participatory Processes: Neighborhood Assemblies in El Alto, Bolivia
By Ma. Daniela Sanchez Lopez
90 - Explorations in Community and Civic Bandwidth: A Case Study in Community Wireless Networking
By Hanna Cho
121 - Getting Organized: The Internet as a Tool for Empowerment and Mobilization of U.S. Nonprofits
By Sonora Jha, Seattle University
145 - The Permeable Organization
By Michael C. Gilbert
149 - Scanning and Networking Routines for Discovering the Unexpected
By Linda Lehrer, for GrantCraft
158 - The Physics of Friendship
By Lisa Zyga, PhysOrg.com
161 - Blogs and Community: Launching a New Paradigm for Online Community?
By Nancy White
183 - Toward Network-Centric Philanthropy: Some Insights from the RSS Grants Survey
By Michael C. Gilbert
187 - Social Innovation: What It Is, Why It Matters and How It Can Be Accellerated
By Geoff Mulgan with input from Young Foundation colleagues Simon Tucker, Rushanara Ali and Ben Sanders
255 - Relationships: The Basic Building Blocks of Life
By Margaret Wheatley
259 - Over 100 Annotated Resources from Nonprofit Online News
Gathered and Annotated by Michael C. Gilbert
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