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What Are We Doing On-line? A Debate on the Social Consequences of Online Communications

One of the advantages of the net is that everybody can publish: it’s a free medium. There’s something very appealing and attractive about that. You can cut out the middleman – the publisher and the agent and everybody else. But when you open the floodgates entirely, you don’t get egalitarianism. You get babble. My shopping list becomes as valuable as Cormac McCarthy’s latest book. And then you go back to thinking, “Well, wait a minute, maybe those middlemen had some function, however flawed they were.”

What Are We Doing On-line? A Debate on the Social Consequences of Online Communications

Open your mind to the possibility that in creating cyberspace we’ve made a new space for literature and art, that we have artists working there who are as great as artists in the past. They’re working in a medium that you might dismiss right now as inconsequential, just as the theater, in Shakespeare’s day, was dismissed as outrageous and low-class and not very deep.

Some Comments on the London Times Educational Supplement Article

Most college and university peer-review committees and procedures do not recognize electronic publishing as particularly valuable for men or women. Although this will undoubtedly change in time as peer-review procedures become established, as professional associations sponsor electronic periodicals, and as a new generation of cyber-committed scholars come on-line, there is currently little reward for electronic publication. At best, it is likely to supplement, not replace, conventional hard-print journals.

The Net Gives New Life to Journalism

With the amazing proliferation of materials available to us all on-line, we can become more active watchdogs of the government *and* the press, and the chances will increase for us to participate in areas where we once felt powerless. Look out for e-mail interviewing, more journalism Listservs and bulletin boards, more on-line papers and magazines, more opportunities to e-mail to the press, and more information to keep up with. It’s all happening on the Net.

The Net Gives New Life to Journalism

Old-time reporters still smell the ink and listen for the clank of linotype and typewriters. Modern journalists are accustomed to the quiet of computers, the changed workrooms, the blending of graphics and print. It behooves the older generation to add computer skills to their wealth of experience, in order to be effective mentors to the new generation.

The Net Gives New Life to Journalism

Up until the Net began mushrooming, computer-aided reporting (CAR) involved combining multiple databases to reveal government or business misconduct … Reporters used to pry many databases out of the government. However, more and more are available on-line, and that should increase.

The Net Gives New Life to Journalism

“Print” and “broadcast” used to be the two divisions in journalism schools. Soon the NII, or Infobahn, will allow video clips to be part of the story, and all journalists will need to be conversant with good writing and good broadcasting. Multimedia delivery is here. The division of the future will be between advertising and public relations on one hand, and news reporting using multimedia on the other.

Atheism, Sex, and Databases: The Net as a Social Technology

Extending network access and services will let scientists work at a distance from their colleagues, their apparatus, and their data to create and leverage shared knowledge. The metaphor invoked is the virtual scientific laboratory, and it points to the need to develop tools for locating and sharing data, software for analyzing shared data, tools for controlling remote instruments, and tools for communicating with far-away colleagues.

Atheism, Sex, and Databases: The Net as a Social Technology

By the mid-1990s, people can be expected to view personal computers as knowledge sources rather than as knowledge processors … gateways to vast amounts of knowledge and information.

Learning and Teaching on the Internet: Contributing to Educational Reform

There is a great danger than enormous efforts now put into educational “reforms” will turn out to be irrelevant to the circumstances of learning and working in a networked, knowledge-creative society. Current investments in reformed curriculum frameworks, standards, assessments, teacher in-service programs, and the like should take advantage of networking to reduce industrial-age constraints; at the same time, they can contribute vitally to the evolving information infrastructure, to the learning benefit of everyone.

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