Online Communities
Online Communities
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Summary
The Internet is a social as well as technical phenomenon and at its current stage of development, people are still hungry to learn more about effective methods for "communicating" over the net. The design tools available to web developers are the enabling technologies, and the impact of one upon the other is the territory of this book.
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Online Communities by Jennifer Preece
The purpose of the book is to set up a framework for discussions on social and technical issues of online communities. Designing usability and supporting sociability lays a solid foundation on which online communities can grow and thrive. Intended for both students and computer professionals, the book addresses the development of new online communities as well as the improvement of existing ones. It is divided into two parts - Getting Acquainted with Online Communities and Developing Online Communities - along with a preface and a concluding chapter which explores the future of online communities. For sample chapters and other resources, please check out the web site for the book at: http://www.clis.umd.edu/people/preece/
"provides a good balance between theory and practise" (Software Focus, December 2001)
"I like the slightly zany drawings" "People will say I wish I'd had this book before now"" (Computer & Education, No. 36, 2001)
"…an excellent book…my best recommendations…" (Jnl of Computing and Information Technology, March 2003)
Jenny Preece is Professor and Chair of Information Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she teaches online communities and human-computer interaction. Prior to coming to the USA she chaired the first distance education course at the Open University in the UK. She has authored a leading text on Human-Computer Interaction and numerous other publications.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780471805991 |
| ISBN 10 | 0471805998 |
| Title | Online Communities |
| Author | Jennifer Preece |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons Inc |
| Year published | 2000-08-11 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |