国外社群信息学研究的知识基础及热点变迁

摘要

社群信息学(Community informatics,CI)研究对缩小数字鸿沟、促进社会包容性发展具有重要的意义。自90年代末规模性发展开始,国外CI研究已成为包括LIS在内的多学科研究的热点领域。通过对90年代初至今的相关文献进行分析,发现了一批对CI研究具有重要推动作用的文献；从主题上看,社会网络、社会资本是CI研究的核心领域,复杂网络以及社群结构探测成为CI研究的前沿领域。%　　Community informatics (CI) plays an important role in reducing digital divide and promoting societal tolerance development. CI became a research focus since late 1990s. Based on a review of CI research aboard,this paper presents some important documents on CI. By research themes,it is discovered that social networks and social capital are the core areas for CI research,and complex networks and community structure detection are the frontier areas.