Connected Giving: Ordinary People Coordinating Disaster Relief on the Internet - 10 views

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  #1 ruenhongo on 23 Mar 12

   

  Torrey, C., Burke, M., Lee, M., Dey, A., Fussell, S., & Kiesler, S. (2007). Connected Giving: Ordinary People Coordinating Disaster Relief on the Internet. Human - Computer Interaction Institute, 51. Retrieved from http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=hcii (Accessed 16/03/2012)
  
  I found this article so important in that it spoke about the different communities and how they are connected. The term "Connected Giving" was defined as people who donate goods and are there as support for those impacted by the crisis. Like the article by Sutton (2010) there are challenges in this that are mentioned such as the establishment of authority in the group, developing trust in each other and most importantly sustaining the group over time. The online tools used, analysed and compared in the article are forums, blogs, personal websites and bulletin boards and how they coordinate different responses to the disaster.
  
  There are two ways in which a community can be organized whether it's by a centralized community or a decentralized community. In this article a centralized community supports smooth coordination, accountability and consistency whereas a decentralized community supports quick action and local professionals. There was a comparison between small and large communities and their way or organizing. Small communities are viewed to have strong ties and develop a more trusting relationship whereas large communities have more resources and offer diverse information but also have weak ties and they serve to link people to new sources of information.
  
  Small blog communities had a moderator to help face the challenges and without a moderator the sustainability would drop. The large forums however face issues of managing the information and developing trust but these challenges can be met over time which maintains the large forums. The authors aimed to not only analyse the different communities but to show how a connection needs to be made for people to donate and volunteer over time. (274 words)

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Torrey, C., Burke, M., Lee, M., Dey, A., Fussell, S., & Kiesler, S. (2007). Connected Giving: Ordinary People Coordinating Disaster Relief on the Internet. Human - Computer Interaction Institute, 51. Retrieved from <a target="_blank" href="http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=hcii" rel="nofollow">http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=hcii</a> (Accessed 16/03/2012) <br /> <br /> I found this article so important in that it spoke about the different communities and how they are connected. The term "Connected Giving" was defined as people who donate goods and are there as support for those impacted by the crisis. Like the article by Sutton (2010) there are challenges in this that are mentioned such as the establishment of authority in the group, developing trust in each other and most importantly sustaining the group over time. The online tools used, analysed and compared in the article are forums, blogs, personal websites and bulletin boards and how they coordinate different responses to the disaster. <br /> <br /> There are two ways in which a community can be organized whether it's by a centralized community or a decentralized community. In this article a centralized community supports smooth coordination, accountability and consistency whereas a decentralized community supports quick action and local professionals. There was a comparison between small and large communities and their way or organizing. Small communities are viewed to have strong ties and develop a more trusting relationship whereas large communities have more resources and offer diverse information but also have weak ties and they serve to link people to new sources of information. <br /> <br /> Small blog communities had a moderator to help face the challenges and without a moderator the sustainability would drop. The large forums however face issues of managing the information and developing trust but these challenges can be met over time which maintains the large forums. The authors aimed to not only analyse the different communities but to show how a connection needs to be made for people to donate and volunteer over time. (274 words)</div>

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