Bridging/Bonding

Two dimensions of social capital as expoused by Robert Putnam. Bridging social capital is inclusive and looks outward to include people from various groups. Bonding social capital is exclusive and looks inward to reinforce identity and commonality within a group of people. 

Design and Development of BiblioCommons

Submitted by Paul Resnick on October 31, 2005 - 8:54pm
BiblioCommons is a Toronto-based initiative that is developing hosted web services to integrate with libraries’ OPAC and circulation systems. It will enable library patrons to easily annotate the libraries’ bibliographic records with evaluative, associative and synoptic “tags”.

BiblioCommons is premised on a conviction that libraries not only can, but should play a leading role in the emerging field of “social knowledge discovery”. … Read more »

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This makes me sad

Submitted by Lev Rickards on October 8, 2005 - 2:29pm
There are 300,000 of my co-religionists in Iran. They make up the largest religious minority in that country. Education is incumbent upon Bahá’ís. We are expected to build our capacity as human beings, in service to building a better world. Here in the States, us CIC-ers are guaranteed access to education, pending certain institutional, classist, racist structures that (God willing) we can all work to dismantle. I know we all value the right to higher education, because we are all here in graduate school. My brothers and sisters in Iran are systematically denied that right:
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Discussion Question 8 Putnam

Submitted by atkins on September 15, 2005 - 4:33pm
In the taxonomy of concepts for this CIC website the concept of Social Capital has under it Bridging/Bonding. Civic Engagement, and Social Networks. What is the relationship between all of these concepts/sub-concepts?
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Podcasting

Submitted by jbaugh on April 16, 2005 - 10:19am
Here is a brief paper I wrote covering the podcasting phenomenon and how it relates to CIC-type concerns. Please read it and post your comments. I am pretty convinced that it applies to the issues of social capital that we have been talking about, but feel free to challenge me on that!
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