PARADOX No. 2
Internet enables a person to be linked to the global community on the Net, but can alienate him/her from the local community
Computer mediated communication (CMC) with locally present individuals can become erratic, technically limited, insufficiently coordinated, with improper interpersonal exchange, stressful, and anonymous.
SUPPORT:
- Kalekin-Fishman, D. Action and Non-Action on the Internet: Paradoxes of Alienation. http://construct.haifa.ac.il/~dkalekin/paradox.txt
- Toulouse, C. The Paradoxes of Community Online. http://www.urbsoc.org/courses/internet/paradox.htm