登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
The Future of Community and Personal Identity in the Coming Electronic Culture
David Bollier
其他書名
A Report of the Third Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology, Aspen, Colorado, August 18-21, 1994
出版Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, 1995
主題Business & Economics / Industries / Media & CommunicationsLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Communication StudiesPolitical Science / GeneralPsychology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / UrbanSocial Science / Media Studies
ISBN08984316629780898431667
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OAgLp0vUXWUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookFULL_PUBLIC_DOMAIN
註釋The 1994 Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology began as a look at the changing nature of the home. In building scenarios of the "new home," the participants expressed many significant insights into issues of personal identity, community-building, and setting boundaries in our lives and environments. This report captures many of those insights and observations. It is intended to be a catalyst for readers to understand the consequences of the trends in communications and information technologies, to think more about these issues, and to consider appropriate new actions to take as individuals, as workers, and as citizens to have better lives and communities. The report first concentrates on the impact that electronic networks might have on the future of communities, geographical and virtual. A second major theme explored is that of changes in personal identity occasioned by electronic networking in both the physical spaces of home and geographical community, on the one hand, and the virtual communities called MUDs ("Multi-User Domain") and MOOs (MUDs using Object-Oriented computer code), on the other. A third area of focus is that of the changing nature of intermediaries in democratic societies. The areas of public policy that are ripe for review are described in the last section of the report. A paper entitled, "The New Intermediaries" (Charles M. Firestone), and a list of conference participants are appended. (MAS)