The turn to online research is narrowing the range of modern scholarship, a new study suggests. Diversity will be lost if networks do not specifically include it (see http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/search?q=wisdom+of+crowds).
A three-year research project, headed by Mimi Ito, involving 28 researchers and 800 subjects, and sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, finds that the stereotypical idea of the Internet as a soul-devouring, anti-social wasteland for our kids is just plain wrong.