Commentary 4 Hitting Home: Communication Technologies and the Everyday Becky Graham Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 Introduction Stephen Doheny-Farina's book The WiredNeighborhoodlooks at communication technology and how it affects our every day lives. While critical of people's unquestioning acceptance of new technologies, Doheny-Farina acknowledges that some technologies are valuable and necessary. In Part Three of the book, Doheny-Farina delineates how communication technology, specifically the Internet, affects and will affect the most taken.forgranted aspects of our lives: work and school. The current movement is to bring work and school to the home in the form of telecommuting and distance education. We already tend to seek entertainment at home instead of going out to the movies and local hangouts, so some of our social interaction, our involvement in our communities, has been condensed into our home lives. Because the net is so powerful, we can be efficient enough to work and to attend school at home, where we can be comfortable within our families and our community. "Telecommutingto work and school represents the great practical promise of the net and justifies its reach" (88). In the following, I will review the two communities-work and school--to explain how Doheny-Farina confronts the
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Hitting Home: Communication Technologies and the Everyday
Graham, Becky
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 21 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Nov 1, 1997
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