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Even the traditional public school classroom now must compete with online public school classrooms that deliver their material to the student via the Internet.
The psychological and social aspects of online communication have been the study of many peer-reviewed articles over the past 15 years. The Internet is expected to have a greater social impact than television because if effects more areas of a person's life. The Internet affects their personal, family, school and work life (Surveying the Digital Future, 1999). It is not just for entertainment value. Some claim that the Internet has changed social relations (Civin, 2000), but others disagree and feel that the impact has not been as great as others claim (Katz and Aspden, 1997). There are many conflicting studies on the social and psychological effects of the Internet. The difficulty is in determining which ones are the most credible.
It was thought that the Internet would cause drastic changes in human interaction. However, it was soon found that human reactions and interactions are still controlled by the same set of mechanisms, needs, and emotions (Birnie and Horvath, 2002). The World Wide Web did not change who we are as human beings, it only changed...
When the Internet began to gain public acceptance it was not difficult to translate this idea to the online version that we know today. Today, distance learning online is growing rapidly and becoming more sophisticated as technology develops. The social and psychological effects of the Internet have become an area of particular interest for researchers. However, at the current time it is difficult to draw any conclusions due to the existence of conflicting information.
Works Cited
Birnie, S. And Horvath, P. (2000). Psychological Predictors of Internet Social Communication. Psychological Predictors of Internet Social Communication, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication. Retrieved May 22, 2006 from: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue4/horvath.html.
Civin, M.A. (2000). Male, female, email: The struggle for relatedness in a paranoid society. New York: Other Press. In Sarah A. Birnie and Peter Horvath. Psychological Predictors of Internet Social Communication. Psychological Predictors of Internet Social Communication, Retrieved May 22, 2006 from: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue4/horvath.html.
Freed, K. (1999). A History of Distance Learning: The Rise of the Telecourse. From Financial Opportunities in Educational Television, by Ken Freed. Financial Times Media & Telecoms, London, 1998. Retrieved May 22, 2006 from: http://www.media-visions.com/ed-distlrn1.html.
Katz, J.E., & Aspden, P. (1997). A nation of strangers. Communications of the ACM, 40(12), 81-86. In Sarah A. Birnie and Peter Horvath. Psychological Predictors of Internet Social Communication. Psychological Predictors of Internet Social Communication, Retrieved May 22, 2006 from: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue4/horvath.html.
Leiner, B. Vinton G. Cerf, D. Clark, R. Kahn, L. Daniel C. Lynch, J. Roberts, L and Wolff, D. (2000). A Brief History of the Internet. Retrieved May 22, 2006. http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/brief.html
Works Cited
Birnie, S. And Horvath, P. (2000). Psychological Predictors of Internet Social Communication. Psychological Predictors of Internet Social Communication, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication. Retrieved May 22, 2006 from: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue4/horvath.html.
Civin, M.A. (2000). Male, female, email: The struggle for relatedness in a paranoid society. New York: Other Press. In Sarah A. Birnie and Peter Horvath. Psychological Predictors of Internet Social Communication. Psychological Predictors of Internet Social Communication, Retrieved May 22, 2006 from: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue4/horvath.html.
Freed, K. (1999). A History of Distance Learning: The Rise of the Telecourse. From Financial Opportunities in Educational Television, by Ken Freed. Financial Times Media & Telecoms, London, 1998. Retrieved May 22, 2006 from: http://www.media-visions.com/ed-distlrn1.html.
Katz, J.E., & Aspden, P. (1997). A nation of strangers. Communications of the ACM, 40(12), 81-86. In Sarah A. Birnie and Peter Horvath. Psychological Predictors of Internet Social Communication. Psychological Predictors of Internet Social Communication, Retrieved May 22, 2006 from: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue4/horvath.html.
Leiner, B. Vinton G. Cerf, D. Clark, R. Kahn, L. Daniel C. Lynch, J. Roberts, L and Wolff, D. (2000). A Brief History of the Internet. Retrieved May 22, 2006. http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/brief.html
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