Commentary The Wired Neighborhood: An Online Conversation Nancy Allen and Ann Blakeslee Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 483.9'7 TO: blakeslee@onllne.emich.edu TO: nallen@online.emich.edu I've been reading The WiredNeighborhoodand wonder what you've been thinking about it. I'm having a sort of yin/yang reaction: I read some passages and want to say "Yeah, right onf" Then I read a little farther and think "Is this guy paranoid or simply a displaced romantic?" I appreciate his approaching the Internet and electronic communication as a subject for critique. We've heard plenty of unquestionning praise of the net, so I'm glad Doheny-Farina is warning us to remove our rose colored glasses and take a look in the hard, bright light. Technology influences what we do and how we do it in so many subtle ways, as well as the more overt ones, and these all too often go unnoticed. This warning flag is welcome and important. Yet, this does seem like a very romantic vision, with resonances of Plato occurring often, at least for me. Doheny-Farina's discussion of individualism isn't limited to his criticism of how the net individualizes us rather than unites us. He also makes strong arguments in support of individualism, for
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The Wired Neighborhood: An Online Conversation
Allen, Nancy; Blakeslee, Ann
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 21 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Nov 1, 1997
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