Local Communities -- Does the Internet Enhance the Capacity of Community Associations? -- Information Technology in Support of Public Deliberation -- Local Communities: Relationships between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ social capital -- Extending Social Constructivism with Institutional Theory: A Broadband Civic Networking Case -- Minimalist Design for Informal Learning in Community Computing -- Virtual Communities -- Virtual Community Management as Socialization and Learning -- File-Sharing Relationships — conflicts of interest in online gift-giving -- Acceptance and Utility of a Systematically Designed Virtual Community for Cancer Patients -- How to Win a World Election: Emergent Leadership in an International Online Community -- A Bosom Buddy Afar Brings a Distant Land Near: Are Bloggers a Global Community? -- Knowledge & Scientific Communities -- Archetypes of Knowledge Communities -- Local Virtuality in an Organization: Implications for Community of Practice -- Taking a Differentiated View of Intra-organizational Distributed Networks of Practice -- Structuring of Genre Repertoire in a Virtual Research Team -- Principles for Cultivating Scientific Communities of Practice -- A Study of Online Discussions in an Open-Source Software Community -- Experiments -- Citizen Participation through E-Forum: a Case of Wastewater Issues -- E-Commerce, Communities and Government - a Snapshot of the Australian Experience -- Collective Action in Electronic Networks of Practice: An Empirical Study of Three Online Social Structures -- Bridging among Ethnic Communities by Cross-cultural Communities of Practice -- Supporting Privacy Management via Community Experience and Expertise -- Systems -- Regulation Mechanisms in an Open Social Media Using a Contact Recommender System -- Supporting Communities by Providing Multiple Views.