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Internet use enhanced sociability both at a distance and in the local community.

— Manuel Castells The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001)

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The Internet is, above all else, a cultural creation.

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The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.

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Cultures are not made from free-floating values. They are rooted in institutions and organizations.

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"the Internet is the technological basis for the organizational form of the Information Age: the network."

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The Internet is no longer a free realm, but neither has it fulfilled the Orwellian prophecy. It is a contested terrain, where the new, fundamental battle for freedom in the Information Age is being fought.

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