The creative and disruptive characteristics of digital networks have profound consequences for the production of citizenship, which has always been technologically constructed, but now derives its significance from a tension between elite intentions and network flows. Our aim in this paper is to...

Zum dritten Mal wird ein Workshop veranstaltet, der sich dem Themasozio-technischer Infrastrukturen für demokratische Prozesse widmet. Dabei ist einWandel zu beobachten: Die Diskussion von Konzepten, ihren Herausforderungenund Risken, wird ergänzt um Praxisberichte von prototypischen...

Den Bezugsrahmen des vorliegenden Sammelbandes bilden Organisationsformenund Kooperationsbeziehungen, welche Kennzeichen aufweisen, die in der aktuellenwissenschaftlichen und managementtheoretischen Diskussion unter dem Begriffder „Virtualisierung“ thematisiert werden. Im Gegensatz zu...

CSCL at the workplace is subject to the special characteristics of a situation where learning is not the primary taskof the learners. The gap between the goal to work efficiently and the need to increase qualification and skills is evenwider in organizations which operate in knowledge-intensive...

The „OlViO“ project1 deals with knowledge management and e-learning asintegral parts of organizational learning in virtual organizations. Some of theproblems encountered in classical organizations become even harder in virtualorganizations because their members are distributed and cooperate...

Participatory approaches for the design and the introduction of computersystems are drawing increasingly more attention among researchers as well asamong practitioners. While participatory design (Schuler and Namioka 1993)might be considered as only "helpful" for the development of...