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The Future of the Cyber-Commons: To What End? In Whose Interest?
Publication Date: January 2000
Publisher(s): National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
Author(s): Libby Garland
Series: CLAL Community and Society Archive
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Culture and religion (Culture and civilization)
Media, telecommunications, and information (Electronic data processing, transmission, and retrieval)
Keywords: Community Formation; Social Patterns; Technology; Political Behavior
Type: Other
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The author reports on a conference that was recently convened to assess the Internet's performance to date and its future prospects as a democratic civic medium. Might the Internet contribute to the salvation of our Jewish and American public life?