references books etc.

The presentation is mostly based on own experiences of life and how I feel about it. Of course a lot of it comes from on all the books, articles, discussions etc. I have had about the net during the years but this is (unfortunately) not an scientific text and provides no accuracy in the use of literacy not to mention methods and methodoligies.

Here, however, are some pieces of media I've been following while writing:

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Esther Dyson and her book Release 2.0:

Hotwired threads:

http://threads.hotwired.com/cgi-bin/interact/view_stitch?msg.56187

        the
      Net, she suggests, is more than just a set of
      telecommunication lines and switches. It is a
      communication tool, a set of communities, and a 
      "potential home for us all." Dyson is clearly a 
      champion of Web culture.  After all, her business 
      and livelihood depend on it.

http://threads.hotwired.com/cgi-bin/interact/view_stitch?msg.56226
C'mon, folks, get real!

http://threads.hotwired.com/cgi-bin/interact/view_stitch?msg.56195

1. The net, for inexpliccable reasons, delivers a level of diversity unparraleled in the "real" world.
How can anyone pretend to make generalizations about the digital world in general? Its ridiculous, its
irresponsible to feed the non-wired this crap.

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Growing Up Digital : The Rise of the Net Generation by Don Tapscott

(dis)covered in HotWired / Katz http://www.hotwired.com/synapse/katz/98/05/index1a.html
who suggests Don to be the president of the Internet.

I also wrote him an e-mail that will probably be here soon
(if he gives the permission to publish the discussion)

amazon reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/quicksearch-query/7786-2708781-440423