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To analyze exactly what the effects of technology are for community, one must form a concept of what community entails. There are a wide variety of possible definitions for community and what it entails. McMillan "theorized the community consists of the following four dimensions: (a) spirit-feeling that there is a community, membership, sense of belonging, acceptance: (b) trust-feeling that the community can be trusted, influence, order, group norms; (c) trade-feeling that mutual benefit comes from community, reinforcement, shared values; and (d) art-shared emotional connection in time and space" (qtd in Rovai 1). According to Kemmis, "community can only be realized in practice by people who have (a) a living, working relationship to a physical place; (b) a stake in each others lives; (c) a commitment to human virtues such as neighborliness; (d) a trusted pattern of behaviors; and (e) an objectivity about what works and what does not work. ... While both concepts of community differ from each other, they are also similar in that both accentuate the importance of personal connections in community. ... Community seen as communication between individuals for the purpose of commonality and shared information may flourish in a technological environment, but if the concept of community entails personal interaction in physical places to further knowledge of ourselves and the world, the technological environment does not suffice. ... Its effects on the former have been mostly positive and readily accepted, but for the latter, the effects are not as clear. Interpersonal communication has been and may continue to be negatively affected in this advancing technological world.
Approximate Word count = 1301
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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