Howard Rheingold - Author of Net Smart and The Virtual Community I would give it to every high school graduate.' With so much news and speculation about what is wrong about life online, this book from an OG participant and academic expert is a welcome and well-documented argument for all the good things life online can do. 'Should you believe Wikipedia? is an extremely useful book about the positive aspects of life online: supportive online communities, social construction of knowledge, online collaboration, the ways online communities can create and harvest social capital, how to safely and productively use Wikipedia, and more. Sherry Turkle - MIT, Author of The Empathy Diaries, Reclaiming Conversation, Alone Together, and Life on the Screen Both scholarly and down-to-earth, filled with compelling examples, it is a textbook for classrooms, dinnertables, and policy discussions.' This welcome volume suggests entry points for designers and users - to start those necessary conversations about how to make online life serve our emotional and social purposes.

The Internet seems so opaque, that we don’t know to get traction on our concern that it no longer serves our human needs. 'This book reminds us of conversations we’re not having about online life - with family, friends, with our political representatives - because we don’t know where to start.

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