The End of Cultural Diversity of Style in Composition
In this paper I will attempt to show that initially, the internet will increase the cultural diversity of style in composition, before helping a world wide trend in stomping out cultures.
In order to discuss the effects of the scope of the Internet on composition, we must first explore what the Internet is, the definition of culture, how the internet exposes us to and affects culture, and the effects cultural changes have on style in composition.
This essay is not concerned with the history of the Internet, but with the way the Internet distributes information through webpages and the way forums foster geographically complex but intellectually similar communities.
With the advent of the Internet, geographic boundaries with respect to communication have disappeared. Though this would seem to be a great thing for humanity, it may soon lead to immense cultural difficulties as foreign nations youth undergo strain to conform to an American way of thinking.
The main reason it is easy to spend many hours per day on the Internet is because the variety of methods with which information is transferred. In a typical hour of Internet usage, a user could read email, use an online chat program, read a news story, look at a forum, and look at a site with interesting pictures. This variety keeps the Internet experience from being dull. After the user’s interest in one topic is exhausted, he need not look for a new magazine or reference book, but instead click on a link and be taken to a new webpage or look at a different thread in a forum.
Forums are what seperates the Internet from just being a quick electronic version of a magazine. They allow communites of p...
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What does this mean for the cultural and historical diversity of composition?
The Internet will initially increase the diversity of style in composition. Without the Internet, it is difficult to learn about a subject when your geographic location is not rich with other people who are interested in the subject. With the Internet, immersion in a community of people with similar mindsets is simple. This will make would-be authors of compositions more likely to create art that may not be considered regular atwork in their part of the world.
After a few generations, however, the Internet will have helped get rid of the worlds “excess” cultures, and the ethnosphere will have shrunk. Then, artwork will be necessarily less culturally diverse, due to a worldwide lack of culture.
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