"The Digital Evolution of an American Identity "details how the
concept of American individualism is challenged by the digital
revolution. As digital media alter our print-dominant culture,
assumptions regarding the relationship of the individual to the
larger community become increasingly problematic. Current arguments
regarding freedom of speech and confusion about what is meant by
privacy illustrate the nature of the challenge.
C. Waite defines individualism as the ways in which the American
culture traditionally strives to balance the rights of the
individual against the needs of the group. Americans struggle to
understand what it means to be responsible both for one s self and
for the welfare of others. They struggle with this not as an
academic might, but in concrete and specific cases, often caught at
cross-purposes with conflicting goods. This is a historic struggle,
intrinsic to the very fabric of America's democratic society, as
illustrated by its laws and customs.
The American democracy has supported a view of the person as an
autonomous individual. Yet that concept of American individualism
no longer adequately captures the role of the self in the social
world. The digital environment challenges that autonomy by creating
new avenues for speech and new forms of social networks. Though the
transition from a print-based culture to the digital domain entails
a global revolution, American culture will suffer the consequences
of that revolution more profoundly than other cultures because the
concept of American individualism is foundational to its democratic
way of life.
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