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Digital Discourse and Online Civility (Encore)

In a program that originally aired last May, we host a conversation about cyber civility. With a rapidly advancing technological society, we investigate how technology plays a roll in communication. In light of a controversial email sent from University of Iowa Professor Ellen Lewin, we take a look at how people are communicating digitally and how their digital communication differs from how they would communicate face to face. Is there a need for more digital discourse? How can we learn to be civil in a realm of anonymity? Should we? This hour we are joined by Andrea Weckerle, the Founder and President ofCiviliNation.organd Warren Blumfeldof Iowa State University. 

Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River