Project: Final Project: Submission
INTERNET
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MASS COMMUNICATION
What is the Internet?
(New Oxford American Dictionary (3rd), 2016, p. 914)
It’s popular! In 2015, the number of internet users worldwide was 3.17 billion (Global number of internet users, 2016).PROBABLY considered as “human basic needs”
Internet as my medium choice
IT’s knowledgeable! It contains millions of knowledgeable resources
IT’S UNITY! TV, radios, magazines, books, NEWSPAPERs basically everything is just in there
It’s effective! It is very easy and fast to use, and is the only medium I know how to use properly.
It’s useful! Not only being used for entertaining purpose, as a student it is also useful for educational purpose. E.g. School work, online degree, etc.
Evolution of the internet
(Zimmermann 2012)
Why Internet is so important?
ENTERTAINMENT music, movie, TV, documentary or anything entertaining can all be found in the net. It offers greater variety of choice compared to TV cable.
EDUCATION there is a great number of educational websites providing free tutoring, lessons and useful resources for study and research. Plus, more and more universities offer an online course.
COMUNICATION Internet features social networking sites like Facebook, twitter, or skype to connect people around the world, which changes the way of communicating to be much easier, faster and cheaper compared to telephone.
Information newspaper, radio, newspaper, encyclopedia are all in available in the net. It is very easy to access anytime 24/7 either by a click of computer or a touch of mobile screen.
E-commerce internet offers a great number of online shopping sites like eBay, or amazon. More and more brands focus more on online platform to sell their products like H&M, McDonald's, etc. Also, Flights, hotels and trips can be bought online as well. Therefore people don’t need to go out for shopping anymore.
How the significance of the internet has changed over time and what other factors influenced its significance?
Personally, I believe the Internet has changed incredibly fast over time. Nowadays, almost 3.7 billion people around the world access to the Internet and most of them tend to rely on the Internet (Global number of internet users, 2016), there is no doubt that there are always new technologies develop everyday according to its growth, for example mobile apps, etc. which means, the Internet is not limited anymore like before. To support this, Dominick (2012) added that all traditional mass media content will be eventually contribute to the Net.
As the fast growing trend of the Internet, every one minute there are 571 websites created, 2 million Facebook shares, 68,00 blog posts and 278,000 Tweets (Ever wonder how many websites are created every minutes?, 2014). The figures show that the Internet has rapidly developed everyday and become more and more significant in order to meet human needs. By that reason, the main factor influenced the significance and change of the Net could be nothing but its million users on the cyberspace.
And how the evolution of the Internet affects the way you experience that media today in your career, in your community, and daily routine?
The evolution of the Internet simply makes my life much easier. Before, when I woke up, newspaper and TV were the only options I used to read the news and gain information but now since the Internet is included all the traditional media, I can not only easily catch the news but also keep my self up-to-date anytime through a PC or phone applications
In my routine: I also use the Net to do online shopping, listen to music, book hotels and flights, study online, pay my bills. Well, pretty much everything.
Community: Thanks to social networking sites like Facebook, it allows me to interact with my friends and family. Also, a great chatting mobile app like Skype and WhatsApp, helps me to keep in touch with my friends from all over the world as well with a very little cost compared to telephone.
Career: In hospitality, the most common communication channel is e-mail. It is very fast and easy compared to letter. Most hotels only accept Resume via e-mail. Besides, since LinkedIn was created, I used it a lot to not only having my CV visible online to companies, but also finding job, creating a connection and more.
The five important persons who helped to develop the Internet
Mark Zuckerberg
Raymond Tomlinson
larry page
sergey brin
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Tim Berners-Lee
Steve Jobs
REFERENCES
Dominick, J. R. (2012). The dynamics of mass communication: Media in transition (12th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Retrieved from VitalBook file.
Ever wonder how many websites are created every minutes? (2014). Retrieved from
http://www.designbyconet.com/2014/06/ever-wondered-how-many-websites-are- created-every-minute/
Global number of Internet users (2016). Retrieved from http://www.statista.com/statistics/273018/number-of-internet-users-worldwide/
New Oxford American Dictionary (3rd). (2016). Oxford: Oxford University Press Zimmermann, K. (2012). Internet History Timeline: ARPANET to the World Wide Web.
Retrieved from http://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html
Dominick, J. R. (2012). The dynamics of mass communication: Media in transition (12th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Retrieved from VitalBook file.
Ever wonder how many websites are created every minutes? (2014). Retrieved from http://www.designbyconet.com/2014/06/ever-wondered-how-many-websites-are-created-every-minute/
Global number of Internet users (2016). Retrieved from http://www.statista.com/statistics/273018/number-of-internet-users-worldwide/
New Oxford American Dictionary (3rd). (2016). Oxford: Oxford University Press
Zimmermann, K. (2012). Internet History Timeline: ARPANET to the World Wide Web. Retrieved from http://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html