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136C Final

Dylan Coughran, Author
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Intro

In the present day and age it is clearly seen that the majority of communities and societies interact with technology on a daily basis. Technology is used daily within these communities as a way of communication to carry out interactions for business use, educational use, and for everyday transactions of information. The main medium used for these interactions is the Internet, with the help of smartphones and computers being available to the majority of the population. The birth of the Internet helped create major modes of communication and interaction that are now crucial for most communities. But the Internet itself does not only help link communities, it also acts as its own community that is sculpted by technology. Internet began throughout the 1960s and 1970s used primarily for communication between researchers, governments, and businesses. The Internet quickly expanded in the next couple of decades and rose in the 1990s with the inventions of e-mail and instant messaging. This helped connect the general public and quickly became one of the main mediums for communication, replacing old methods of communications such as written mail. The internet continuously advanced into the 2000s and the birth of social media occurred. Websites such as Myspace, Twitter, and Facebook all grew within the 2000s and they all started their own communities through the Internet. These social media websites differed from past e-mail and instant messaging communications because these websites offered public information from users and they also incorporated businesses. These websites were also free to the public and many looked to the public as the people who benefitted, but many thought differently. Although social media services such as Facebook and twitter are free, each public user is giving free information, trends, and consumer habits out to the public and businesses. This technology based community at first glance presents the public as those who benefit, but when you dig deeper it is clear that businesses and the social media websites themselves benefit more off of the publics free information and consumer trends.
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