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What has the internet change?

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Changes our views, the way we get news, entertainment, the definition of “friends”, we meet people etc..

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Is the internet a different kind of media?

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changes the definition of communication, equalizes the messengers, changes feedback, changes our relationship to media, changing journalism/PR/Advertising and US

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Who is Herbert Marshall McLuhan?

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He said that the internet is a global Village, media as extension of our nervous system

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Steve Jobs

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Apple, iPods, Iphone, ITunes and iBook

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Bill Gates

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Microsoft Software for personal computers

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What the vision?

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linked computers informed, interested, involved in government. Home computers

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“Giant teleconference”

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Apart of the vision for political process

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The first computer

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desktop computers connected to a “mainframe” and Internet first used at work

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The revolution with the revolution

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Personal Computers! small, affordable and portable. Point and click technology. Opens the internet to everyone

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What is the audiences doing with the internet?

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becoming users and creators

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The Internet Definition:

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A global network of interconnected computers that communicate freely and share and exchange information.

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Worldwide Users

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more than 3 billion, seven time what it was 15 years ago. 43% of the world Population

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What are the top user worldwide for the internet?

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China, US, Inda, Japan and Brazil

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In the United States

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84% of people use the Internet and 50% of them are 15 years old

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Who uses the Internet?

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Older adults lag behind (58 percent), People with college educations, People with higher incomes (>$70,000), Hispanics, blacks less likely to use the Internet than whites, Rural residents less likely than urban residents, and Women, men use the Internet equally

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Social Networking

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online communities, united by common interests, professions, schools.

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Why do we use social media?

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Stay in touch with current friends, family, old friends. Share Hobbies/interests. Make new friends and celebrity news, dating

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What are Search Engines

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Allows you to navigate the net, key terms are important and 113 billion searches per month
Ex: Bing, Google and YaHoo!

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WWW

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Http: Transporting files from one place to another
URL – a site’s official, unique address
Domain – .com .gov .edu .org

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Home Pages

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are what the viewers see first and entryway to a site

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What does the Social Media do for Journalism, Public Relation and advertising?

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MUST use Social Media

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Digital Native

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Never known a world without Internet

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Equalizers

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Individuals, groups, corporations can communicate with a large audience

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Feedback

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can be immediate

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The internet and mass communication

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changes our relationship with media, each other

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Roles Collide

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a medium without audience, both are users and creators. We are all gatekeepers and journalists, broadcasters, commentators, filmmakers, advice columnists

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Media R Us

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Media as extensions of our brains and bodies, media allow us to be involved in others’ lives and allows us to experience the world

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Free Expression

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Theoretical vs. Practical
Coperation vs. Lone User
voice for the voiceless, expanded expression

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Why can free expression on the internet be bad?

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No on/off switch, Now everyone can be a publisher, ideas with borders

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Authority

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who controls?

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Activism

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is a # enough?

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Anonymity

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good or bad?

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Affordability

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Democracy?

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Abuse

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How do we stop it?

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Global Village

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Exchange ideas and information through technology

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What are some ethical issues with the internet?

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Anonymity, paid bloggers, smear forward, flash mobs, see-through society and accuracy

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Pornography: Child Pornography Presentation Act of 1996

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RIP and too damaging to free expression

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Pornography: Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000

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Filters Allowed

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Copyright

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creator owns the work, creator gets paid, must give permission.

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act

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Can’t use codebreaking devices to illegally copy software, can’t pirate materials, ISPs can’t be sued for transmitting materials and fair use applies in cyberspace

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Encryption

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Only with a court order

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E-mail

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it’s private, sort of

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Dataveillance

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Digital trail, cookies, clock streams and spyware

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Digital Democracy

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Freedom and Self-Governance (Flash Mobs, advocacy groups) Digital Divide-Technology Gap=knowledge gap

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What is Net neutrality?

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All Internet service providers must allow free, equal flow of all Web traffic.

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What would it be like to not have net neutrality?

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companies can buy priority access to the internet, service providers can prevent you from visiting some websites, redirect you from one website to another. Ex: Netflix would be slower

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Digital Divide

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Gap between those who have access to the internet and those who do not
Gap between those who benefit from digital technology and those who do not

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Who is affected in a digital divide?

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People of color, people with disabilities, poor people, people in rural areas, and older people

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Information Gap

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Need information to be good citizens, without the internet, we may not get information. Technology acts as a censor?

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Knowledge Gap

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If we don’t have technology-we don’t have information and we don’t gain knowledge

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Truth Splinters

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Different Media provide different information, virtual communities form around common interests. You can be isolated and you have your truth, I have mine.

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