The rapid expansion of computer networking provides us with a tremendously important opportunity to reflect on human communication and its place in democracy, and to build a network culture that provides everyone with the skills necessary to act as a fully drawn agent in society.
Predictor: Agre, Phil
Prediction, in context:The April 1994 issue of The Network Observer, an online newsletter, carries an article titled “Networking and Democracy” by Phil Agre, TNO editor, who was, at the time, working in the Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. In an edited version of his comments made earlier at the Fourth Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference in Chicago in March 1994, Agre writes:”The rapid expansion of computer networking provides us with a tremendously important opportunity to reflect on human communication and its place in democracy, and to build a network culture that provides everyone with the skills necessary to act as a fully drawn agent in society.”
Biography:Phillip E. Agre was an associate professor of information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has been the author of research studies on the Internet. He edited The Network Observer, an online newsletter on Internet issues. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Democracy
Name of publication: The Network Observer
Title, headline, chapter name: Networking and Democracy
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/tno/april-1994.html
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