We could also use this space for you to add ideas of appropriate places to look for information! For example, if you are looking for statistics on crime, where might you look? What about trends in education? Effects of counseling on prison recidivism rates?

Or... what is the web good for? When would you use wikipedia? Why would i use WorldCat? How do i know what database to look in?

Please post your responses here!

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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We're going to use this blog as the headquarters for the informal aspects of our research. Here you can post replies to questions, and links to your own blogs will show up in the sidebar.