Module 3


THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

To complete Module 3 read Chapter 3, answer 5 website questions, and complete the reflection in the discussion forum.

  1. http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/reg/futures/renaiss2.htm

    Document: Renaissance Two: Second Coming of the Printing Press

    Crawford identifies a number of consequences associated witht he introduction of the internet. For example, the internet will (1) speed up old ways of doing things, (2) give everyone access to the equivalent of a printing press, (3) represent a profound pedagogical challenge to traditional schooling, (4) change leadership and management styles, (5) challenge those who sit in positions of absolute power, (6) allow people to bypass the formalized hierarchy, and (7) change how students learn. How might you expand on the meaning of each of these seven functions? Would you classify each as a manifest function, manifest dysfunction, latent function, or latent dysfunction? Explain your rationale for each classification.

  2. http://info.isoc.org/papers/truth.html

    Document: Truth and the Internet

    http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.xpr

    Document: Netizens: An Anthropology: Preface

    http://sunsite.unc.edu/horizon/pastissues/vol2no5/lead.html

    Document: Redefining Success: Public Education in the 21st Century

    Select two documents from this list. Do they give insight into the net’s manifest and latent functions or dysfunctions? Explain.

  3. http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/netizen-rights.txt

    Document: Proposed Declarations of the Rights of Netizens

    What rights are covered in the Declaration of the Rights of Netizens?

  4. http://www.idbsu.edu/surveyrc/Staff/jaynes/marxism/fairwage.htm

    Document: A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work

    How is a “fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work” defined in modern capitalist society? Why is the idea of a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work a “peculiar” kind of fairness?

  5. http://www.commerce.net/work/pilot/nielsen_96/exec.html

    Document: The CommerceNet/Nielsen Internet Demographics Recontract Study

    What percentage of persons surveyed have used the internet in the past three months? What percntage of internet users have internet connections at work? What percentage of all those surveyed have access to the internet at work? What are some examples of how the internet is used for business purposes?

  6. http://www.augsburg.edu/library/aib/mailmanners.html

    Document: Netiquette, Or How to Mind Your Manners When Using E-Mail

    http://www.enterprise.net/fortknox/emoticon/smiley.html

    Document: On Line Emotion

    http://www.screen.com/start/guide/Netiquette.html

    Document: Nettiquete

    Why is it important to learn the nonverbal language of the network? What are some examples of nonverbal language? What do “flame on” and “flame off” mean? What are emoticons?

  7. http://future.sri.com/vals/vals-survey.results.html

    Document: Exploring the World Wide Web Population’s Other Half

    What are the eight groups that make up the VALS segmentation system? Which group of Web users is the source of stereotypes about Web users and is the one to which the media devote the most coverage? What group constitutes “the other half” of the Web audience? Which groups are least likely to be part of the internet audience?

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