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Building Community: Online Resources

Boulder Community Network Papers and Presentations

• Why Community Networks?
  by Madeline Gonzalez

• Common Ground: Community Networks as Catalysts
  by Dr. Ken Klingenstein

• Computer Networks: Access, Tort Liability, the First Amendment, and the Public Forum Doctrine
  by Sandra B. McCray

• Community Publishing on Boulder Community Network
  by Madeline Gonzalez and Catherine Weldon

• Conferencing on the Boulder Community Network
  by Don Dulchinos

• A Data Maintenance Framework for Community Networks
  by Catherine Weldon

• The Boulder Community Network: Access and Use
  by Sam Harsh

• Internet Access and Use: Boulder Community Network Users
  by Mary E. Virnoche

• Virtual Boundaries of Public and Private: Tales from the Electronic Frontier
  by Mary E. Virnoche

Community Networking Stories

Meta-indexes of Community Networks

• Free-Nets and Community Networks
• United States Community page Index
• The USA CityLink Project
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Community Networks

Resources on Community Development

• Fundraising Resources -- Grants and Foundations relevant for Community Networks
• Communications as Engagement
• Community Networking Resources
• Information Kiosks and the World Wide Web
• Institute for the Study of Civic Values
• The WELL

Survey Information on Community Networks

• Community Network Surveys
• Networks and Community: A Weekly Survey
• Preliminary Results of the BCN Public Training Survey

Papers on Community Network Development

• Nurturing Neighborhood Nets By Gary Chapman and Lodis Rhodes
  (Providing free access to computer networking can extend the pleasures and benefits of the Net to people living in poor communities.)
• "Building Electronic Greenbelts (Community Nets)", by Steve Cisler
• Communities On-Line
• An Evaluation of the Colorado Access-Value-Content Project
  for ACLIN by Peggy Rueda and Walter La Mendola, Phd.
• Network Services Research
  includes following papers written by Andrew S. Patrick & Thomas E. Whalen:
  • "Frequency of Use for Regularly-Used Features on the National Capital FreeNet: Counting "Go" Commands," "Rich, Young, Male, Dissatisfied Computer Geeks? Demographics and Satisfaction from the National Capital FreeNet," "Implications of Access Methods and Frequency of Use for the National Capital FreeNet," "Loosing Sleep and Watching Less TV but Socializing More: Personal and Social Impacts of Using the National Capital FreeNet."
• Community Network Movement, by Doug Schuler
• New Communty Networks: Wired for Change, by Doug Schuler
• Towards an Anthropology of Internet Communities
• Working Paper Series in Public Access Networks