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Catalytic Communities :The birth of a dot org

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Catalytic Communities :
Reminder of title:	The birth of a dot org
Author:	Williamson, Theresa Denise.
Description:	262 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 1146.
Notes:	Supervisor: Seymour Mandelbaum.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	Urban and Regional Planning.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3125919
ISBN:	0496732080

Catalytic Communities :The birth of a dot org
Williamson, Theresa Denise.

Catalytic Communities :The birth of a dot org [electronic resource] - 262 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 1146.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2004.

My basic question was: what can be learned about a new type of civil society institution---the Dot Org---during its early years? The six themes that naturally surfaced, and which I then explore, fall into three broad categories: (1) those that explain its creation (the history of technology, the Brazilian reality, social network theory); (2) those that help describe what the organization came to look like (the concept of the Dot Org, the effect of the development of a physical space on the virtual organization); and (3) those that describe the management processes used to keep and develop such an organization (staff management and fundraising lessons).

ISBN: 0496732080Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Urban and Regional Planning.

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520 # $a My basic question was: what can be learned about a new type of civil society institution---the Dot Org---during its early years? The six themes that naturally surfaced, and which I then explore, fall into three broad categories: (1) those that explain its creation (the history of technology, the Brazilian reality, social network theory); (2) those that help describe what the organization came to look like (the concept of the Dot Org, the effect of the development of a physical space on the virtual organization); and (3) those that describe the management processes used to keep and develop such an organization (staff management and fundraising lessons).
520 # $a Rather than attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of Catalytic Communities, I describe the results of a learning process, providing more qualitative and deep knowledge that only the protagonist in an academic function can provide. This dissertation is therefore a study of "learning by doing," for which the lessons learned are not only those referring to the six themes that surface but also those that help define a new research approach that I call Protagonist Action Research (PrAR).
520 # $a This dissertation describes and analyzes six themes that emerged during the first three years' development of Catalytic Communities, a community development organization meant to operate strictly in cyberspace, thus reaching a global audience, though legally based in the US and Brazil. I founded this organization with minimal experience and, through this dissertation, describe my learning during its pilot and maturation phase, as an idea was transformed into a viable organization, from September 2000 through December 2003.
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