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Virtual community
Title: Virtual community
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 490 | Pages: 2.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Virtual community
In 1988, when everybody thought the only people who would use computers to communicate were adolescent boys with complexion problems, I witnessed some heart-touching acts of spontaneous support and charity—people raising tens of thousands of dollars to help parents struggling with a sick child, shifts organized to sit and read to a dying comrade, and other instances where flesh-and-blood humans reached through the computer screens and changed each other's lives. I wrote on "Virtual Communities" …showed first 75 words of 490 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 490 total…grown increasingly abstract, and have increasingly disruptive impacts on what had been former models of "community." Alpha-bets, printing presses, broadcasting stations, Web sites, virtual communities, all extend our minds, disrupt old forms of community, create new ways to relate, remove us further from the concrete world, and make possible empires, weaponry, medicine, democracy, metropolis, agriculture.
Bibliography
Contemporary moral issues Lawrence Hinman
Business ethics principles and practices geoff moore
Business and society james post, Anne lawrence
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