[1] Traditionally community networks referred to networks of relationship, personally, civic, political, etc...that bound communities together in different ways. More recently however the term "community networks," or community nets" have referred to electr onic networks of computers within a community that have been designed by a community network organization to communicate with each other, and to offer certain information and communication services such as email, news groups, and the ability to retrieve a nd post information, to the members of that community either by using a computer with a motum at home, or by using public access terminals throughout the community.
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[3] GUV's WWW user surveys. [On-line]. Available: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/.
[4] Civells, R. The Internet and th e Poor. In Kahun, B., and Keller J. (Eds.) (1995). Public Access to the Internet. (Cambridge, MA.MIT Press, 1995).
[5] Miller, Steve. Building the NII from the bottom up: A strategy for working through local organizations. The Network Observer, August 1994. [On-line]. Available: http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/tno/august-1994.html#building .
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[8]See Olsen, Marvin N. Marger, "Power in social Organization," Power in Modern Societies, edited by Olsen, Marvin N. Marger, (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993) 7.
[10] Friedmann, John. The Politics of Alterna tive Development. (Cambridge M.A.: Blackwell, 1992) 67-68.
[12] Avis, Andrew. Public Spaces on the Inform ation Highway: The Role of Community Networks. [On-line]. Available: http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/GNST/theses/avis/thesis.html.
[13 ] Ackoff, Robert L. People Centered Development, Edited by David C, Korten and Rudi Klauss, (pp. 195). (West Hartford: Kumarian Press, 1984).
[16] Schuler, Douglas. New Community Networks: Wired for Change. (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company: New York, 1996). An On-line summery of Schuler's book is available at: htt p://www.scn.org/ip/commnet/workshop.html.
[17] Schuler, Douglas, How to Kill Community Networks Hint: We May Have Already Started..The Network Observer, January 1996. [On-line]. Available: http://communication.ucsd.ed u/pagre/tno.html. Also at: http://www.scn.org/ip/commnet/kill-commnets.html.
[20] Beamish, Anne. Communities On-Line: Community-based Computer Networks. [On-line]. Available: http://alberti.mit.edu/arch/4.207/anneb/thesis/background.html.
[22] Schuler 355. See also: Design Principles for Online Communities
[23] Schuler 12.
[24] Schuler 226.See also Developing and Sustaining Community Networks. [On-line]. Available: http://www.scn.org/ip/commnet/workshop.html.
[26] Beamish, Anne. Communities On-Line: Community-based Computer Networks. [On-line]. Available: http://alberti.mit.edu/arch/4.207/anneb/thesis/tour.html.
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[30] Vargas, Lucia. Social Uses & Radio Practices: The Us e of Participatory Radio by Ethnic Minorities in Mexico, (Westview Press: San Francisco, 1995).
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[37] Goulet, Denis. "Participation in Development: New Avenues," World Development 17/2 (1992) 166.
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