Rought draft of Journalism final essay Caleb mcconnell journ 102 In our 21st century society with technology blooming steadily, Internet access has become a necessity to strive in modern times. As our world rapidly advances into the digital age everything is starting to switch to online. Almost every bank has an online banking website that lets you handle your money from home on your computer instead of having to go to the bank every time you want some cash. Because 77% of the United states population uses the internet, online shopping has also become a huge industry. According to the National Retail association 51% of the US will shop online this up coming holiday season.
You cannot” (Bazalgette p.1). It says that what have put online once is permanent and there is no assurance that the post, tweet, photo, video or anything can ever be removed from the cyber world. In this way, social media is threatening the privacy of society by pulling out the unwanted past in future. The author also says about the new generation, “a generation is voluntarily surrendering its privacy on a hitherto unimaginable scale” (Bazalgette p.1). New generation likes to use social media as self advertisement and sometime they share very personal information.
2013. This book looks at different roles the Internet plays in society. It talks about its wide usage for academic studies and how our society is switching from an industrial era to a digitally centralized one. It shows how the Internet effects education, the communities, the future and much more. This book supports that the internet is improving our education and rapidly advancing it.
Online piracy laws. A bill called SOPA the Stop Online Piracy Act. An PIPA the Protect IP Act, two laws used to stop the user to user sharing freedoms that we all were born with. And the censorship of all internet. If your government doesn’t like the Yankees, they could actually legally if this law is passed shut the site down for all U.S citizens to access it.
Cody Janowski 12/2/10 English Comp Assignment 4 The Internet has undoubtedly changed the way people live their lives. Any information we could possibly want- and more- is at our disposal, and has made life for us incredibly convenient and easy; some, however, might say too easy. One of these people is Nicholas Carr, author of the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” featured in the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic. Carr argues that the Net seems to be slowly demolishing our abilities to concentrate on one subject, as well as contemplate information, based on the ease of access to everything the Internet provides today. I agree with Carr to an extent; however I would say that his theory most certainly does not apply to everyone.
For example, the average age of online gamers are 25-44 years of age, which includes about 95 million people or more that play online games. Therefore, the online gaming industry will continue to grow as the access to broadband internet expands and the variety of games increases. In America’s gaming industry, there are about 100 companies sharing combined revenue of 11.8
Now, if teenagers ranging anywhere between 14 and 24 years old were asked their opinion on the governments involvement in their lives would say “screw the government,” “the government is ruining my life bro!” Being in that category I am expected to think they same way, no. My opinion towards the governments involvement in our lives is that except for certain exceptions their involvement is quite decent, The few but quite important exceptions are their involvement with the private lives of American citizens, for example when they allow themselves to listen in on a telephone conversation without the need for any sort of a warrant. Another example is actually a lack of support on such topics including Roe vs. Wayde. Where my personal belief of laws has been shut down by the government. As Milton Friedman wrote “ a sea change in the direction of the public thinking about the government’s ability to solve economic and social problems,” the public is easily influenced on talked about matters.
The Internet is an immense, global network that connects computers through telephone lines or networks to a mass of electronic information. With only a computer, a modem, and a telephone line, people from all over the world can communicate and share information with little more than a few keystrokes. Everyday, more children are entering Cyberspace. The Internet is a virtual world online and can be great in so many ways. You can easily access information that you’d normally be unable to get, you can see pictures from space shuttles, you can talk about hobbies, games, and much more.
In the past twenty years, the amount of change the internet has brought to the world and the American people is unparalleled in history. The phenomena of the internet and free information has sparked so much new technology, so many new ideas, and has broken down so many walls of communication and trading that it is a tidal wave of change. Because the internet is evolving and spreading so fast, many governments of the world have implemented censorship of the internet and many others might are doing the same. Most recently the U.S. is considering beefing up its own level of
Facebook chooses who they think hates jews and who doesn’t. “By policy, Facebook prohibits users from posting content that is ‘hateful, threatening, pornographic or that contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.” There is a difference between violence and expressing an opinion. “Driving these groups underground doesn’t remove their power or attractiveness,” Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director, said. “It enhances it.” Pro: "I want to say, ‘If you want to hurt somebody and want to make their life is miserable, then who are you?' " Riberio said.