Internet: Knowledge and Community

From Internet: Knowledge and Community

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Initial Questions

• Is the Internet alive?

• How can the internet be a tool for strengthening communication and resource sharing among a community?

• Can User Generated Content provide valuable real time or near real time data to a community?

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

• What is a similarity between the growth of the Internet as a community and offline communities

• 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?

• In what ways are existing or possible communities excluded from the internet as it currently exisits?

• What enviromental impacts does the internet have?

• 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?

• 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?

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

• Does the internet detract us from our basic social traits, reducing our ability to create a physical community?

• 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?

• 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 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?

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

• How does the “anonymity” of the internet foster or hinder the development of community?

• In what ways can regular use of the internet change the way people think and act in their everyday lives?

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

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

• What roll has the internet played in strengthen communities, and what problems would communities face if the internet was obsolete?

• Do the standard ideals of community have an impact on the internet? How could internet standards change the definition of community?

• Is the internet catering to agoraphobic, overweight, misanthropes?

• Can the internet be beneficial or damaging within a family household?