A group presentation for Professor Howard Rheingold's class, Stanford University

1. Is Democracy enhanced
by digital technology?
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2. ‘The internet is serving
as a breeding ground for extreme opinions’
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4. We used to know the news.
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5. We used to have the facts.
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6. We used to be polite.
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7. but the internet
polarized the conversation;
we’re n o lo nge r p ol ite
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9. definitely
not polite
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11. Right?
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13. 1789
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17. 1794
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18. 5 years
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19. it’s a French thing
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30. The medium is the message
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31. The medium is the massage
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32. The medium is the mass age
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33. The medium is the mess age
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34. How we
use media?
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43. Half of the World population has a cell phone
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