... environment. Basically it allows for more interactive and innovative ways for people to do what they do in 'real life'. Thus the Internet is but an extension of human imagination and creativity, a theorist named Lanier, (1998) agrued that it is "the most precise mirror of people as a whole that we've yet had". However, while the image of the Internet as a mirror is accurate, it is still not a mirror of people as a whole. The fact that only an estimated 5-10% of the content on the Internet is of non-Western origin while the developing world population represents more than half of the world's population indicates how far the Internet is from true cultural and global diversity. This is a serious issue, in view of the potential importance of the Internet for all spheres of life everywhere, and because of the trend for the facility to be increasingly ...

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