Internet: Knowledge and Community

From Internet: Knowledge and Community

Contents 1 Topics 1.1 1. The Internet as a Resource for Communities 1.2 2. Technology and Social Justice 1.3 3. Wired vs. Non-Wired Communities 1.4 4. Technology's Impact on Communities 1.5 5. Philosophical Questions 1.6 6. Shaping the Internet 2 Authors 3 About 4 Definitions and Stubs

Topics

1. The Internet as a Resource for Communities

Featured Article: Real Time User Content

• How can the internet be a tool for strengthening communication and resource sharing among a community?
• What is a similarity between the growth of the Internet as a community and offline communities
• 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?

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

Featured Article: Anonymity and the Internet

• 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?

Authors

About

Definitions and Stubs