Digital Connections

Although my podcast focused on the downsides of computers' effects on societies, my research paper will not ignore the benefits they have contributed to interpersonal, international, and cross-cultural connections. New sources I have found reflect the whole new world opened up to internet users who are fortunate enough to have internet access and the ways in which people are helping to provide computers to paces below the poverty level. I already know the internet must be connecting people who otherwise would not know each other, and educating each other through contact. Philanthropy is helping those deprived of such contact in some places. Surely there is potential for development of a broader reach. I hope to find recent articles on how the internet is now pushing people closer together of farther apart. The way my paper is shaping up, it will address not only the digital divide, which is definitely a reality, but also how it might be bridged. My paper will shed light upon what the internet means to different segments of our society an world.