Technology and Social Justice
From Internet: Knowledge and Community
- Recent political trends are showing the power of the internet to mobilize people around issues. As technology becomes more and more widely accessible will it further the cause of traditional social justice issues, or will it create a whole host of new and equally challenging dilemmas?
Source Material
A lot of valuable data has been developed already in each question and their responses. This will act as the primary source material for finding interrelations and themes that run through the topic.
Initial Questions and Responses
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- 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 about the internet as being a force for democracy, but what about a force for totalitarianism?
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Outside Sources
- links are helpful -- Teaser sentence explaining why link relates to topic
- articles might be linked and responded to briefly
