Guide Questions for David Bell’s Introduction

1. With Bell, we arrive at questions regarding the viability of cyberspace as a transnational experience. What do you believe are the most important or most engaging questions that he raises or that he suggests some of the contributors to this section raise?

If usages of Internet and cyberspace expand and gradually dominate our life, how would that new type of custom impact on meaning of world’s nationalities?

2. Assess and interpret Bell's opening quote of Ziauddin Sardar. What kind of critique of American culture (particularly American cyberculture) is suggested by this quote?

The quote suggests about how American cyber-culture is likely to lead in developing and expanding the usages of Internet and cyber-culture worldwide.

3. Respond to Barwell and Bowles' notion that the Internet is the new frontier. Do they express optimism or pessimism with regard to this idea?

I think that the Internet could become the new frontier with its great potentiality in influencing our daily life. As for the Barwell and Bowles’ view, I think that they express both optimistic and pessimistic views regarding to the idea of Internet being our new frontier because people would be negatively affected (pessimistic) by the expansion of Internet usages (optimistic).

4. Do you believe that the Internet can now or may someday be capable of displacing nationalities?

No, I do not believe that the Internet can someday be capable of displacing nationalities. Nationalities have something to do with identities and tuneful identities cannot be fully expressed to others through Internet.