Is e-culture pro-social or anti-social?

Does it isolate people and create bad habits or bring them together and generate pro-social trends?

Well that’s a difficult question to answer. I think that e-culture can be both pro-social and anti-social. It is pro-social for several reasons : first of all because it links people together, but also because of the transparency it produces. As a few students noticed, some employees have denounced their working conditions on their blogs. Because the news spread so fast on the web, companies are now forced to take into account the fact that their “emploggers” can quickly and easily tell the world about the company’s practices, as Estelle showed us with Ubifree.
But unfortunately blogs can also have anti-social consequences. First of all there can divide the world between users and non-users, depriving the latter from various opportunities offered by blogs. Anyone should probably try to drop its old habits and contract new ones. Still some people might not have the capability to take advantage of e-culture tools. There also can be a vast debate on the characteristics of e-communication…it can be argued that virtual communication kills real communication. Some experts studying e-communication consider that communication on the Net is extremely poor and superficial. They refer to so-called “weak (social) links”. Anyway I’m not even sure that blogs can fit into this analysis because again, they are so personal and intimate. I actually think that they are a mini revolution within the e-culture itself. On a larger scale, some association like Vecam are fighting to try avoid a deep seam between the connected and the unconnected world. This can be seen within a society or in the world, particularly vetween the northern and the southern countries.