theoretical framework
The article proposes a system model through which the relationship between social capital and its benefits can be understood. It starts giving a brief overview of the concept, and mapping some assumptions regarding social capital, such as “Societies with high social capital are generally believed to be better off”.
Basically, social capital is understood as the connections among people which influence collective action and the obtaining of benefits out of these actions.
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Submitted by dani matielo on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 00:10
The article contextualizes the telecenter movement and creating the euphoria resulted from the need to ensure access to ICTs which had its highest point around the year 2000, when most telecenter movements started. Still, the author states that telecenters still lack a theoretical approach, and then propose the use of stakeholder theory to better understand their mechanisms.
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Submitted by dani matielo on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 18:25
This article tries to apply diffusion of innovation theory on the adoption of telecentres. It brings some overview about the theory and give some interesting insights of how and why a community would start using a telecentre. It starts reasoning that because telecenters are usually implemented in an atmosphere of optmism and urgency, there is not much time for theory, and also that telecenter is an atheorical object of study. Still, it gives a good definition of terms, including telecenters.
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Submitted by dani matielo on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 18:22
The article elaborates on three different frameworks which are mostly used to research literacy and could be described as:
Learning framework, which basically seeks to understand who ICTs can ameliorate the process of learning classical skills such as learning and writing. Research using this framework usually builds on extensive quantitative data comparing ICT use and test results.
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Submitted by dani matielo on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 18:19
The article proposes a theorical framework on how to undestand Community Networks, understanding that it is relevant to understand it as a hybrid of binary concepts than as the combination of different concepts such as social or technical, community or network, heterachical(or bottom-up) or hiearchical (top-down).
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Submitted by dani matielo on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 18:03