golly - looks like I've missed some real fun stuff (I think I got derailed because of a bouncing account). and who decides this "broad range" might i ask? r
My interest in the Internet is that it has been, is and gives the appearance of being a profoundly transformative technology. Determining the nature of that transformation, its boundaries, its impacts and its limitations is for me a very significant task, both in its own right but also and perhaps most importantly because this can help us as teachers and as citizens influence and guide this development in socially meaningful and useful ways.
To be useful in those areas, as "Internet Researchers" we must I think, be open to the broadest range of ideas (and not rush too soon to closure around what is meaningful or valuable) and we must be willing and able to use the full capacity of the Net to sustain and enable meaningful interactions across wide distances both physical and social.
Mike Gurstein
Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. (Visiting) Professor: School of Management New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ
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