Amy Bruckman responds to Sherry Turkle

Sherry hit the nail on the head, as always.

In Wellman & Gulia's classic paper "Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone," they comment that discourse about the Internet tends to be Manichean (prone to dualisms), presentist (as if we've never worried about these issues before), and parochial (acting as if the Internet is a phenomenon that exists in isolation, rather than richly connected to the rest of life).
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/netsurfers/netsurfers.pdf