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