Chapter 2

Using the following images, compare representations of Christ and the Antichrist from Luther's book:

How is the pope made into an antichrist? How do images of Christ promote community? How do the pairs of images teach intolerance?

Choose two Internet sites, one for music sharing and one for degrading others. What characterizes the communities in these two sites? How does the Internet promote sharing and tolerance? How does the Internet promote exclusivity and intolerance?

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Compare Facebook and Twitter as two networking infrastructures for creating communities. In what ways do they foster communities of strong ties and to what extent do they foster communities of weak ties? To what extent do they promote communities of strangers who know little about each other? To what extent do they reinforce connections between those who share a common form of life?