Chapter 1- The arrival of new media technologies

Question 1

When did computing technologies become more useful and accessible to people?

Answer 1

• Mid 1980s = computers becoming common in workplace + many laborious media process were digitalised.
• Early 1990s = Widespread adoption or home computing + connection to internet

Question 2

Web 2.0
What 
How 
Characteristics 
Developments related to Web 2.0

Answer 2

What = Second stage of development of internet.

How= Widespread improvement 🎓
+ access to broadband📻
+ wireless technology 📱

Characteristics =
-Advent of social media💃🏿📱

• Advances in digital image-capture technologies📟🌅🥅📲🖥
• increased human communications📞

+ connectivity across the world 📡
User generated content 🖲

Development related to Web 2.0

(Rapid progress made in smartphone technology (the ultimate devices in technological convergence)

Question 3

Web 2.0s characteristics

Answer 3

Web 2.0 characteristics are now so fully expressed that we can understand the phase we are moving into as web 3.0/ semantic web

Commenters such as Tim Berners-lee ( inventor of WWW) thinks that Web 3.0 is not about communication between ppl but more between the individuals and the information they require)