[Air-l] Web Science a Field of Study addendum

['Gail Taylor]

I left out a couple thoughts in the last paragraph of the message that was just routed to the server. Too little sleep and not enough coffee to let the mind do the talking and fingers do the walking. Here's the updated paragraph entry.

>As a person who places high value on the social constructivist approach to creating knonwledge at all levels of members of society, I am personally alarmed by some of the comments TBL made in the news story due to concerns that suggestions such as these, and others that emerged in the conversations regarding the regulation of Wikipedia entries, as this contributes to the development of monocultures and dualistic thinking about the world. I have a lot of respect for TBL but also find it ironic that concerns are being raised in 2006 as opposed to years ago when people started using the Internet to exchange misinformation in the form of data packets. Hmmm . . . 

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Gail D. Taylor, M.Ed.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student
Educational Psychology Teaching Assistant

"We can't just have mainstream behavior
on television in a free society. We have
to make sure we see the whole panorama 
of human behavior." -- Jerry Springer