Welcome
The CNA Project
This is the website of the Community
Network Analysis and ICTs: Bridging and Building Community Ties project, or the CNA Project for short.
What is interesting about the CNA project is its dual focus
of community ICT research and development. The project aims to: investigate the
affect of network technologies on community network ties; and explore the uses
of network technologies in stimulating social capital, facilitating social
cohesion, and supporting community building. In order to achieve these aims the
CNA team have combined and adapted a range of existing research tools and
techniques in order to create an innovative participatory research methodology
of relevance to community and academic partners alike.
The CNA Project is concerned with communities and the ways that
computers and communication technologies (ICTs) can help them to thrive
and grow. We want to explore ways of identifying existing ties both
within and between communities, and the ways that ICTs can strengthen
them. Our approach to this is participatory and human-centred,
technically informed but not technology-driven.
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