Commentary A Descriptive Summary of Stephen Doheny-Farina, The Wired Neighborhood (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, 224 pp.) Becky Graham Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 oheny-Farina opens his book The WiredNeighborhoodwith three stories of people who have used technology "to liberate themselves and others" (ix). Doheny-Farina cautions users of technology, though, not to accept technology itself as the liberating force. "The temptation is to mistake the social and economic forces enabling these liberations for the qualities of the technology" (ix). D While critical of new electronic communication technologies, Doheny- Farina targets not the technology itself but the mindset that the physical is overpowered by the power of the mind, that cyberspace, electronic neighborhoods, will replace and supersede geophysical neighborhoods. Doheny-Farina argues that it's not the electronic neighborhood we need but the "geophysical neighborhoods, in all their integrity" (xi). He sees cyberspace as a place where people can avoid those who are different from themselves (xi). Doheny.Farina recommends that, rather than shunning the seduction of the net, we instead steer the cultural trends through such means as civic networking, "limited, focused, carefully applied efforts that attempt not to move us into cyberspace but to use communication technologies to help
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A Descriptive Summary of Stephen Doheny-Farina, The Wired Neighborhood
Graham, Becky
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 21 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Nov 1, 1997
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