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• Title: Digital Deliberations (Forum on "Honors in the Digital Age") (Essay)
• Author : Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 188 KB

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As I write this essay, Google has just announced that it will begin offering a new computer operating system ("Chrome OS"), competing with Microsoft and Apple. Both the form and substance of Google's announcement are noteworthy. The company chose to make its announcement via the "Official Google Blog" rather than more traditional means such as a press release or press conference. As for substance, the new operating system will be "open source," meaning that the source software programming code will be freely available to all who use it. Google's announcement can be seen as a sign of "the earliest stage of a massive social development" described by Cass Sunstein in Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge (xii). Sunstein says that blogs, wikis, open-source software, and YouTube are all examples of emerging Internet-based, collaborative mechanisms for "deliberating," supplementing more traditional forms of group deliberation such as focus groups, committee meetings, and legislative bodies.

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