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Wired high rise

Final report

Wired High Rise: A Community Based Computer Network (PDF file)

Papers

Measuring Social Capital in a Networked Housing Estate
Denise Meredyth, Liza Hopkins, Scott Ewing and Julian Thomas

The New Social Policy and the Digital Age: A Case Study of a Wired High Rise Public Housing Estate
Scott Ewing, David Hayward, Liza Hopkins and Julian Thomas
Just Policy, no. 29, April 2003

Wired High Rise: Using Technology to Combat Social Isolation on an Inner City Public Housing Estate
(Draft only: Not for citation)
Denise Meredyth, Liza Hopkins, Scott Ewing and Julian Thomas
in Marshall, Stewart, Taylor, Wal and Yu, Xinghuo (eds), Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions, Idea Group, Hershey, Penn, 2004

Neighbourhood Renewal and Information Policy: The Atherton Gardens Network
(Draft only: Not for citation)
Denise Meredyth, Scott Ewing and Julian Thomas
International Journal of Cultural Policy Studies, vol. 10, no. 4, March 2004

Wired Community: Neighbourhoods, Networks and Communities of Interest
Denise Meredyth
Paper prepared for Building the E-Nation: A Social Science Symposium, April 2003, Sydney

Virtual Renewal: Can a Network Build Community?
Scott Ewing
Paper prepared for Building the E-Nation: A Social Science Symposium, April 2003, Sydney

Machinery and Community: The Atherton Gardens Community Network
(Draft only: Not for citation)
Liza Hopkins, Scott Ewing, Denise Meredyth and Julian Thomas

Divided Opinions over the Digital Divide
(Draft only: Not for citation)
Denise Meredyth and Julian Thomas
Southern Review, vol. 36, no. 1, 2003

Report to Industry Partners 1: Introducing Reach for the Clouds, 2003

Report to Industry Partners 2: Reach for the Clouds: Initial findings and working Hypotheses, 2003

Appendix to Report to Industry Partners 2: Survey Questionnaire

Wired High Rise: Constructing a Virtual Community in an Inner City Housing Estate
Denise Meredyth, Julian Thomas, Scott Ewing and Liza Hopkins
Paper presented to European Sociological Association annual conference, Visions and Divisions Helsinki, September 2001

e-Social Capital: Building Community through Electronic Networks
Liza Hopkins and Julian Thomas

Hopkins, Liza, Thomas, Julian, Meredyth, Denise and Ewing, Scott, "Social Capital and Community Building through an Electronic Network", Australian Journal of Social Issues , vol. 39, no. 4, 2004, pp 369–379

Thomas, Julian, Hopkins, Liza, Meredyth, Denise, Ewing, Scott, and Hayward, David, "Building a Wired Community: Social Partnerships and the Digital Divide", Communications Research Forum 2002, Canberra, 2–3 October 2002

Hopkins, Liza and Ewing, Scott, "Wired High Rise: Using Technology to Combat Isolation on an Inner City Public Housing Estate", "Using IT: Making it Happen" Information Technology in Regional Areas Conference, Rockhampton, 26–29 August 2002.

Meredyth, Denise and Thomas, Julian, "Framing the Issues: The Political Intelligibility of the Digital Divide", 2002 International Conference on the Digital Divide: Technology & Politics in the Information Age, David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, 22–24 August 2002.

Meredyth, Denise, Hopkins, Liza, and Ewing, Scott, "A Networked Housing Estate", VCOSS Social Policy Congress 2002, Melbourne, 31 July –2 August 2002

Meredyth, Denise, Hopkins, Liza, Ewing, Scott, "Measuring Social Capital in a Networked Housing Estate", paper presented to "The Net(s) of Power: Language, Culture and Technology", International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, Montreal 12–15 July 2002

Hopkins, Liza, Meredyth, Denise, Thomas, Julian and Ewing, Scott, "Social Capital and Community Building through an Electronic Network", Electronic Networking 2002: Building Community Conference, Melbourne, July 2002