social aggregations that emerge from the (Inter)Net when enough people carry on…. public discussions long enough with sufficient human feeling to form webs of personal relationships What is Rheingold (2000) describing here ?

Related Mcqs:

The effect of the Internet upon the public sphere has been to_____________?

A. repress it by promoting only the interests of elite groups B. revive it by reaffirming a commitment of freedom of speech C. reproduce it by emphasizing face-to-face contact with peer groups D. replace it with a superior form of communication...

Who famously stated the medium is the message_______________?

A. Manuel Castells B. Marshall McLuhan C. Howard Rheingold D. Karl Marx...

Critics of the spread of Western cultural products across the globe argue that a cultural empire has been created What term do they use to describe this ____________?

A. media saturation B. media globalization C. media penetration D. media imperialism...

The term culture industry used by members of the Frankfurt School referred to________________?

A. the globalization of cultural through new technologies B. the way in which culture products were bought and sold for profit C. the development of subcultures and counter-cultures society D. the way in which industrialization had created new means of communication...

When was the World Wide Web invented at a Swiss physics laboratory ?

A. 1980 B. 1985 C. 1990 D. 1995...