10 Communities for Research

1. X Generation
2. Woman/Female
3. Italian/Caucasian
4. Straight/Married
5. Business Owner
6. Student
7. Biking
8. Parenting/Mother
9. AA
10. NA

The first websites I visited were about parenting, more specifically about positive reinforcement parenting. The websites I visited were http://www.suite101.com/, http://www.trans4mind.com/, and http://www.growingwell.com/. In the first website I viewed had a controversy surrounding how to parent a child with ADHD. The second and third websites were debating positive reinforcement vs. negative reinforcement. There is an endless supply of information based on parenting.

The second and third community I would be interested in writing about are Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. The websites I visited for these topics are http://www.aa.org/ and http://www.na.org/. The controversy I am following is whether or not these programs actually work and/or whether or not people use because of a chemical imbalance in their brain or genetics. There is a limited amount of material available to the public about AA and NA, both programs have a strict anonymity policy.

I think AA and/or NA will be the best community for this assignment. I think this is an exciting and interesting topic to discuss.