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Monday, September 13, 2004
Community in the Digital Age - Review by Arun Kumar Tripathi, Ubiquity
"Community in the Digital Age," Andrew Feenberg and Darin Barney, 293 pages, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (August 15, 2004), ISBN: 0742529584 The new book "Community in the Digital Age" discusses the questions: Is the Internet the key to a reinvigorated public life? Or will it fragment society by enabling citizens to associate only with like-minded others? Are virtual communities "real" enough to support the kind of personal commitment and growth we associate with community life, or are they fragile and ultimately unsatisfying substitutes for human interaction? How is the Net affecting our culture and what should be the language of the Net? What if the Net became central in our lives? What if it becomes what Joseph Nye, dean of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, calls an "irresistible alternative culture?"
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