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Is the Internet the People's Tool for News?
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IMHO, We cannot exploit the full potential of the Internet without recognizing that not everyone has full access. We cannot move essential services to the Internet without recognizing that large numbers of people do not have full access. It is myopi…
John, The point of the book is?
See:Civil Rights to Cyber Rights: Broadband & Digital Equality in the Age of Obama by Jabari Simama (Paperback - 2009)
http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Rights-Cyber-Broadband-Equality/dp/0615296629/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260754920&sr=1-1
There are many things that are the right and/or best thing to do that are not a "Civil Rights" issue. It is asbsurd to make "broadband access" such an issue. If so the next thing we should say is, "life liberty and the persuit of cell phones." Are w…
You guys should check out the Tech Addiction thread that Denise started...we've drifted into a subthread about the news...but the local variety. The Internet has changed the evening news, but I don't think it's for the better. The "news" consists of…
I'd echo Chris about the "echo chamber" effect. It is also true, I think, that individuals tend to self-select their news when given the choice ... one of the powers of traditional media was (and is) to whup us upside the head with things we did not…
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- At 8:01am on December 3, 2009,
abdeldjalil bachar bong said…
- hello Dr, John thank you for adding me
how are you? you have a nice profil
thanks for more internet's information that you have in your profil
- At 4:07pm on October 28, 2009,
john t barber said…
- keep smilin. the whole world smiles with you
- At 7:07pm on October 24, 2009,
Marla Coffey said…
- Wow! I've never been friended so fast in my life. You've already got me smiling. How are you doing tonight?
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