With recent phenomena like blogs and wikis, the web is beginning to develop the kind of collaborative nature that its inventor envisaged from the start. CERN 2008
The participatory nature of blogging has significantly altered the global culture of communication and collaboration. Web 2.0 has incorporated the use of a diverse range of media for users to generate content which conveys personal opinions and which draws comments. Firstly this essay will discuss how citizen blogs are changing culture. Then it will? Lastly it will show the benefits of continued blogging to enhance communication and collaboration and the progression of technology.
Definition and history.
A blog is a style of website run by an individual or business that regularly uploads posts describing life events, educational, spiritual or inspiring, political or news report information. Moreover, photographs, videos and music are playing an important role in making blogs more enjoyable and interactive. The posts are listed in reverse-chronological order. Comment boxes allow community interaction, feedback and collaboration. Blogs link the global community by erasing boundaries, connecting every culture, race, government, satellite and business. Citizens have gained the knowledge and courage to become producers, journalists, publishers and business owners. But how did this technology develop and who was responsible?
Usenet was conceived by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979 and implemented in 1980. This technology led to the proposal by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1990 with a vision to connect users to an information rich internet via hyperlinks. These visionary ideas changed the world with the introduction of the semantic web. Civilisation became ...
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It has been argued that the blogosphere enhances loneliness. In his report counterbalances that by stating that blogging with a community of like-minded people can encourage social activity.
Has the changing participatory culture affected real world communications and tolerance? Global networks have created similar interest societies where people congregate and influence each other. The diversity of cultures that integrate into the groups and become accepted despite the gap.
Blogging communities that get together in real life to share and discuss their online lives. There is no longer separation. It could be argued that people who constantly post on blogs are known better by their followers than their own families. Online communication promotes inhibited conversations.
Thus, blogging online and offline identities are shaped through the process of blogging. These identities include the blogger, the reader, the commentor, and the blog.
The World Wide Web started as an idea that focused around the government’s need to communicate if there was a real war. In 1964 the Cold War was at its peak, the Advanced Researched Projects Agency, or ARPA began researching and developing a way to get computers to “communicate with each other,” this is how it all started (The Internet's History and Development). The government scientists who were, “developing networking technology in the 1960's knew that what they were building would be far bigger than themselves; nobody, however, could have predicted the explosion in Internet access and interest in the past several years” (The Internet’s History and Development).
However, they can just as easily convince users that they are missing out on having a social life. Marche quotes a woman named Moira Burke, who has conducted studies on Facebook interaction (34). Bruke claims that the way in which the site is used is the greatest factor in determining if it increases the loneliness of users or not, stressing the importance of actually communicating with people one knows personally instead of posting about one’s own activities or simply clicking “like” on the others’ posts. If a Facebook user simply sits back and watches the activity of others without interacting with them in any way referred to by Burke as “one-click communication” and “passive consumption”, it could result in feelings of
The internet was created to test new networking technologies developed to eventually aid the military. The Arpanet, advanced research projects agency network, became operational in 1968 after it was conceived by Leanard Roberts (Watrall, T101, 2/2). Ever since the Arpanet began in 1968, it grew exponentially in the number of connected users. Traffic and host population became too big for the network to maintain, due to the killer application known as email created in 1972. The outcry for a better way sparked the development of the NSFNet. The National Science Foundation Network replaced Arpanet, and ultimately had many positive effects. This early division of the internet spread its netw...
However, some people forget the original purpose of using blogs and want to become successful without hard working. Most people want to own a life like superstar so they post their private life in order to attract more attentions. It is not health for a people to seek into such a life in blogs. In the essay “ Buying the lifestyle”, the author shows us that a common situation in current society, which people excessive believe TV shows and advertisements. They want to gain wealth and status without any working. It is kinds of daydream and people lost judgment of those social media. It has similar situations of blogs that people dream that they become popular and lots of people focus on their life. Some of them try to create non reality events
This quote from Simon Mainwaring emphasizes the purpose of social media and how using it works to create a community. Each discourse community has a different standard in communication and everyday we are asked to use different ways to communicate. The way we communicate can tell a lot about the community we are in. Each day is a new opportunity to communicate with different people who are a part of several communities. Every community has a different view of communication but they work together to achieve their goals.
Encounters between people of different cultural backgrounds have existed forever.People have always thought bout things that were unusual in other cultures. But, those encounters were relatively slim in early days today, they are almost part of everyday life, At the same time, the interchange between cultures has jeopardized their very existence, and the emergence of a diverse culture, a fixation often referred to as globalization..
This article explores the possibilities of the micro-blogging website Twitter as a means of forming an imagined community. Through studying the account of one active twitter user they explore the theories of “virtual settlement” and “sense of community” as well as Andersons theory of the imagined community, the vernacular and shared ideas and morals. There are limitations to this article being that it only focuses on one social network (being Twitter) and it is not directly related to reactions to phenomena, but it provides valuable insight into how communities are created and the influence of said communities.
Although there are few, the advocates of cultural globalisation claim that globalisation helps the enrichment of local cultures. They argue that people from different cultures share their ideas and experiences. They believe, naively, that all parties tell and listen the others ideas and experiences on an equal p...
Although Carr’s sources may be highly praised in their field or study, they are not experts in the effects the Internet has on our minds. Bloggers are often very opinionated and do not pose as reliable sources for information. The fact tha...
Discussions of the social effects of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and virtual community often focus on whether they pull people apart or bring them together. John Perry Barlow describes his point of view on this matter in a very enlightening article, Is There a There in Cyberspace?. Barlow first describes his skepticism about virtual communities and finishes the article with a life altering tragedy. Amy Bruckman, who is responsible for the article, Finding Ones Own in Cyberspace explains the importance of discovering a virtual community that best suits your needs. I feel that virtual communities and CMCs bring people together but also pull them apart more then together.
Keen, Andrew. The cult of the amateur: how blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values. New York: Doubleday, 2007. Print.
Our world is constantly changing and it requires a society that is well versed in understanding the problems deriving from culture differences and tolerance of one another’s beliefs and perceptions. We are dealing with systemic problems in education, economic, government, religion and culture differences.
Social media is used by many people, young and old around the world as a way to communicate. Our lives have become so busy that it is difficult to maintain family and social relationships. “They use social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. On these sites users create profiles, communicate with friends and strangers, do research and share thoughts, photos, music, links and more” (Social Networking). With the use of social media you can be friends with all sorts of people without actually seeing or knowing them. “In many ways, social communities are the virtual equivalent of meeting at the general store or at church socials to exchange news and get updated on friends and families” (Cosmato).
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