1. re: Rodriguez and Hockenberry
2. re: Hockenberry and Spender
3. re: Hockenberry, Spender, and O'Connor
4. re: Hockenberry and Rude
5. re: O'Connor and Rude
6. re: The Global Village
New Threads for CC Online:
7. re: O'Connor and Crawford & Crawford
8. re: Hockenberry, Spender, and Crawford & Crawford
9. re: Maloff and the Global (Corporate) Village
re: Rodriguez and Hockenberry
1. Richard Rodriguez and John Hockenberry both offer speculative visions about a trans-national global future, one driven by cultural and religious changes and one driven by technology. In what other ways do you think these two visions differ? What values or assumptions do Rodriguez and Hockenberry seem to share?
re: Hockenberry
and Spender
2. Based on the essays by John Hockenberry and Dale Spender, contrast the positions of a "global village optimist" and a "global village pragmatist." With which position do you agree more, and why?
re: Hockenberry,
Spender,
and O'Connor
3. How do you think Dale Spender and Rory J. O'Connor would respond to John Hockenberry's claim that "today it is possible to address the world without having to show a passport that defines you culturally, ethnically or religiously" (¶ 15)?
re: Hockenberry
and Rude
4. John Hockenberry writes that "the most stunning tactical victory of the [intifada] uprising was the creation of this virtual/digital nation" (¶ 9) of fax machines. How would you compare the nature, purpose, and effects of this Palestinian virtual nation with the Virtual Eritrea described by John C. Rude?
re: O'Connor and Rude
5. To what extent do you think the article by Rory J. O'Connor contributes to what John C. Rude calls "the common image of a chaotic, degenerate Africa" (¶ 3)?
re: The Global Village
re: O'Connor and Crawford & Crawford
re: Hockenberry,
Spender,
and Crawford & Crawford
re: Maloff
and the Global (Corporate) Village
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6. Based on the selections in this chapter, your other reading, and your own experience, what's your opinion about the ideal of a global village? How would you define that ideal, using criteria suggested by this chapter's writers or creating your own criteria? What roles do you think emerging technologies should play in this global village? What's your judgment about the potential for such an ideal to become a reality?
7. How would you compare the analyses and proposed solutions for access problems in the Third World offered in the articles by Rory O'Connor and Scott Crawford and Kekula Crawford?
8. Where do you think Scott Crawford and Kekula Crawford fall on the
range from "global village optimist" to "global village pragmatist"
relative to John Hockenberry and Dale Spender? To what extent do you
think Crawford and Crawford overestimate the power of networking,
having a voice on the Web, or other uses of electronic technologies
to help the world's indigenous peoples?
9. Which benefits of Internet-related technologies for corporations
outlined by Joel Maloff are similar or identical to those suggested
by other writers in this chapter for other constituencies? Which are
different? How would you compare the goals or values behind Maloff's
advice with those of other articles in this chapter? If everyone
and every group who uses the Internet is "empowered" by it, to what
extent do you think the world's power balances will change as a
result?
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