Friday, November 7, 2008

Information Poverty:
* Has the one laptop / one child project been successful
* Does the infrastucture exist for democracy of information?
* What are the issues between information haves / have nots?

Democracy and Information:
* How does freedom of information in America affect our relations with other countries?
* Wikipedia in China
* Nationalism and Censorship in China

Does Filtering affect our First Amendment rights?
* in schools? in libraries?

Education and Web 2.0
* How is the Web changing the way students learn?
* Should schools ban or embrace students using things like Facebook / Myspace
* Is the internet changing our brains?

Copyright
* Was it acceptable that Disney's copyright on Mickey Mouse's image was extended for another 25 years?
* What are the real affects of Peer-To-Peer file sharing on the music industry?

Internet as a builder of communities
* How does/doesn't the ease of posting/publishing/contributing to the Internet help/not help underserved / unheard populations have a voice.
* Therapeutic affects of contributing to online communities. (YouTube, listservs, blogs, Facebook,


Patriot Act
* How has this affected your civil rights?

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