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Competing visions of society's future in the online world continue to abound, tending most often to offer dichotomous scenarios of such a society: on the one hand are the cautionary tales of the new information technology as a potential danger, which 'threaten[s] a loss of tens of millions of jobs in the years ahead' and brings with it the potential to 'isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience'. On the other hand are the technological optimists who see great possibilities for community and humanity; for 'drawing people into greater world harmony' and creating orderly, efficient, and fun electronic worlds with few negative side effects. How, then, within the context of such dichotomous positions can we critically analyze the possible social and humanistic outcomes of life in cyberspace?
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Toward Broadening our Research Agenda in Cyberspace
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1996/feb/gurak.html
Gurak, Laura J.
Computer-Mediated Communication
1996
Abstract: Competing visions of society's future in the online world continue to abound, tending most often to offer dichotomous scenarios of such a society: on the one hand are the cautionary tales of the new information technology as a potential danger, which 'threaten[s] a loss of tens of millions of jobs in the years ahead' and brings with it the potential to 'isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience'. On the other hand are the technological optimists who see great possibilities for community and humanity; for 'drawing people into greater world harmony' and creating orderly, efficient, and fun electronic worlds with few negative side effects. How, then, within the context of such dichotomous positions can we critically analyze the possible social and humanistic outcomes of life in cyberspace?
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