Community, Online Communities & Social Media with Dr. Amy Bruckman

Tomorrow, Today

In this episode, we discuss the concept of community-- what is community, how do we define it, how do online communities fit into this space, and what does the future hold for the idea of community?

The question of community also offers some interesting insights into the idea of citizen science and decentralized sources of knowledge, such as wikipedia. What are the larger implications of this model for content sourcing, and how does it compare to individual specialists?

Dr. Amy S. Bruckman is Regents' Professor and Senior Associate Chair in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she studies online communities. Bruckman received her Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab in 1997. She is a Fellow of The ACM and a member of the SIGCHI Academy. She founded her first online community in 1993, and has been teaching the class 'Design of Online Communities' at Georgia Tech since 1998.

Her Book, "Should you Believe Wikipedia? Online Communities & the Construction of Knowledge" can be found anywhere you buy books, and she can be found moderating R/Science & on Twitter at @ASBruckman.