Internet: Knowledge and Community

From Internet: Knowledge and Community

Contents 1 Guidelines 2 Wiki Development 2.1 Recent STUBS 2.2 Discuss ways to build this wiki HERE. 2.2.1 Suggestions 3 Emerging Topics 3.1 Top 4 Most Revisions 3.2 1. The Internet as a Resource for Communities 3.2.1 Main Pages 3.2.2 questions 3.3 2. Technology and Social Justice 3.4 3. Wired vs. Non-Wired Communities 3.5 4. Technology's Impact on Communities 3.5.1 Main Pages 3.5.2 questions 3.6 5. Philosophical Questions 3.7 6. Shaping the Internet 4 Course Reading Terminology 5 Initial Questions 6 Technical Questions 7 Authors

Guidelines

The wiki project guidelines are now on a separate guidelines page.

Wiki Development

Recent STUBS

Please link recent stub articles you've created here. This will help others find what needs work.

• Wikileaks
• User Generated Content
• RRS
• Cyberbullying

Discuss ways to build this wiki HERE.

Suggestions

• Transclude as many questions and references as possible. This includes

    * linking terms from the reading into question discussions and community inquiries
    * Creating links between relevant questions
    * Other ways of building interdependencies

• Brainstorm ideas for site structure or Community Inquiry Goals in the Wiki Development discussion

• Turn the question you started into a short article exploring that question (just an idea)

• Find terms from the reading on the wiki (cmd/ctrl F) and link them all to individual terms for the pages
• Perhaps revamp the main page. It currently looks like any other wiki article. Is there a way we could make it more official looking-- like an actual front/main page? (could we make it more inviting &or fun:?)
• Is there a way to make this wiki interactive? Is there a way to instigate chat or would this even be a good thing to add?
• Class Goals

Emerging Topics

Top 4 Most Revisions

as of 16:00 on 1/15/11

• Anonymity is valuable in that it allows people to interact without normal social inhibitions.

• How does the “anonymity” of the internet foster or hinder the development of community?
• How does the ease of internet posting effect art culture?
• Can User Generated Content provide valuable real time or near real time data to a community?
• Does the internet add value to existing and/or emerging communities with regard to the quality of relationships between members?

1. The Internet as a Resource for Communities

Main Pages

User Generated Content

questions

• How can the internet be positive and negative for a community?

• How will emerging technologies alter & evolve thought patterns & habits?

2. Technology and Social Justice

• How much personal privacy and security might be lost by voluntary participation in online social networking and what are the possible social and legal implications for individuals and the greater community in the future?

• How can we get the internet to help us get our message out to the masses?

• How can community learning projects (such as Wikipedia) benefit primary education (K-12) in the United States? How can education be harmed by the increasing prevalence of such community oriented resources?

• We often hear how the internet fosters democracy but what about tyranny?

3. Wired vs. Non-Wired Communities

• In the very near future, will internet-access become recognized as a basic human right?

• Is an internet community more active than a community that is not on the internet? Does the easy access to the internet make a community more effective and active?

4. Technology's Impact on Communities

Main Pages

The Internet and anonymity

questions

• Does it qualify as a sort of "Third Place", and if so, in what ways might social networking on the Internet be similar/different to Oldenburg's notion of a Third Place in real life?

• What enviromental impacts does the internet have?

• Does the internet add value to existing and/or emerging communities with regard to the quality of relationships between members?

• Is the internet and today’s technology causing over-reliance and will today’s “novelty” technology become tomorrow’s “necessary” tools?

• We have come to rely on technology, so with technology continuing to expand, evolve, change and continue to be more innovative, could we see social networks as Facebook and Twitter be the end all for postage stamps?

• Is the Internet slowly destroying our physical world?

• What have been the most significant developments in the Internet community since the creation of the Internet and how do they compare with developments in our real communities?

• How has the Internet had an effect on language, specifically English?

• How does the ease of internet posting effect art culture?

5. Philosophical Questions

• Is the Internet alive?

• How does our expanding media universe compare with our expanding cosmic universe?

6. Shaping the Internet

What forces are shaping the Internet?

How can people make an impact?

Who is responsible to teach others how to access the internet?

Course Reading Terminology

Initial Questions

Technical Questions

Authors

• Goldstein, Adam
• Hodges, Hoyle
• Kenoyer, Liz
• Larson, Michael
• O'Callaghan, Michael
• O'Neill, Michael
• Pogreba, Jacob
• Price, Robert
• Stone, Jed