Clay Shirky: End of audience blog tasks
Media Magazine reading Media Magazine 55 has an overview of technology journalist Bill Thompson’s conference presentation on ‘What has the internet ever done for me?’ It’s an excellent summary of the internet’s brief history and its impact on society. Go to our Media Magazine archive, click on MM55 and scroll to page 13 to read the article ‘What has the internet ever done for me?’ Answer the following questions: 1) Looking over the article as a whole, what are some of the positive developments due to the internet highlighted by Bill Thompson? The positive developments of the internet is that people can now communicate with each other from across the world and can we could email and exchange files with different with people at other universities as well as other people across the world. This is a positive development as it means that new ideas a nd things will be discussed quickly and new technology will be developed quickly. 2) What are the negatives ...