Essays on Internet Culture

Introduction

There may be different views about the influence of social media on the people’s lives, but it is absolutely evident that in the contemporary world the types and modes of communication became sophisticated due to the rapid technological process. The launch of the social media such as Facebook, Twitter or Reddit might have been one of the greatest technological breakthroughs in the 2000s. In 2006, Time magazine recognized the importance of the social media and wrote the following phrase on the cover of the “Person of the Year” edition: ‘You. Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome ...

The Growth in Internet Use Has Affected Cultures Around the World, Leading to a Westernized, Homogenous World Culture

The concept of globalization is sometimes discussed as an undesirable feature of the current geopolitical realities of the world. However, in reality, globalization is an immutable feature of the current human race. Human beings have been striving to travel and to stretch their legs since their earliest days. Some might ascribe some early form of imperialism to this behavior, while others might suggest that human beings, as a species, have a distinct curiosity that compels them forward. One of the impacts of going out to explore the world is that cultural interactions take place. These cultural interactions have been ...

The rapid advance of technology has been amazing in so many ways; communication with people around the globe has never been as easy as it is today. Both computers and mobile phones allow people all over the world to be just a click away from real communication. Lately, social networking has become a huge trend in today’s society, since it is the fastest and effortless way to meet new people who may share similar ideas and it allows us to stay in touch with old friends and relatives that live far away. Moreover, there are still concerns about the way ...

Technology is advancing at an alarming, almost exponential rate; as human progress increases, so does technology, and its effects on our society become somewhat more truncated. Vincent Mosco, in his article “When Old Myths Were New: The Ever-Ending Story,” notes that human society has a tendency to repeat history when it comes to technological advances; with each new stop, we hail our latest invention to be the be-all end-all for communication technology, ignoring that we have done that many times before. According to Mosco, “there is indeed a remarkably willful, historical amnesia about technology, particularly when it turns to communication and ...

The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing our Culture is a text by Andrew Keen. Keen is an entrepreneur and has long been an open critic of the Web 2.0-based Internet culture that has emerged since the year 2000. Keen's book, The Cult of the Amateur, is concerned with the cost of Internet culture. Perhaps one of the most important statements that Keen makes regarding the rise of the Internet culture as it exists today is that the culture is similar to Marxism in that it creates a dearth of professionally-quality content. When discussing The Cult of ...

In today’s world, mass media pervades every aspect of life, from smartphones to 24 hour news stations. Every single human need for information or entertainment can be accessed with the push of a button, which creates a culture of immediacy that some people believe threatens societal development. However, it can be said that the Internet provides a bastion of information and communication that is unprecedented at any other point in history. This is found most clearly in the advent of social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter - these are hubs of information and modes of communication between millions of ...

Media can simply be defined as a means of conveying or affecting something .But according to Merriam Webster’s media is an instrument for conveying thoughts, emotions and or expressions. So what is media about? .I is going to look at two of the many subfields of the media as our discipline of discussion .The y is the internet and culture. I must be taken into account that the two are closely related today and they influence one another often. Internet-fields is not having a one way definition because of it is not only diversified but is also very multifaceted ...

In today’s world, the Internet pervades every aspect of life, from smartphones to streaming video. Every single human need for information or entertainment can be accessed with the push of a button, which creates a culture of immediacy that some people believe threatens societal development. However, it can be said that the Internet provides a bastion of information and communication that is unprecedented at any other point in history. This is found most clearly in the advent of social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter - these are hubs of information and modes of communication between millions of individuals at a ...

In today’s world, the Internet pervades every aspect of life, from smartphones to streaming video. Television has already become a mainstay of popular culture, with everyone receiving their news and entertainment from this pipeline of information. Every single human need for information or entertainment can be accessed with the push of a button, which creates a culture of immediacy that some people believe threatens societal development. However, despite these cries of anti-intellectualism, popular media creates a more literate youth culture, who are well aware of the varying attributes of media culture and advertising strategies. In this paper, we will explore the ways ...