ABSTRACT
Community groups are classified as one of four types: civic/political, religious/charitable/support, educational/professional, or social/recreational. People who make greater use of the Internet for social purposes tend to participate in a greater number of community groups. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) community survey was generally administered in a face-to-face meeting of household members with researchers. Community collective efficacy (CCE) measures the beliefs people hold that the groups to which they belong can achieve specific outcomes. The objective of logging study was to broadly and quantitatively characterize activities of the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV) community at a fairly mature point. Earlier in this chapter we described the result that members of community groups increased their use of Internet collaboration tools during the study period that is, between the first and second survey waves and that they also reported increased levels of involvement in their community groups.
