Facts Brief Evaluation.

The WWW took 4 years to reach 50 million users whereas, the telephone took 74, the radio took 38, PC took 16 and the television took 13. This shows the impact of the internet in the modern generation and how quickly it has grown when compared to the others.

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The graph shows that in recent years, 2009 onwards, the internet took over the newspaper becoming the 2^nd most popular medium in supplying the news to the public. Figure 1 shows the fluctuation of both Internet and newspaper, the key difference is that the internet was on the rise whereas, the newspaper was decreasing. From 2009 the Internet took over the newspaper and seems to still be on the rise, how long before it takes over television?

These results show that is the mainly the younger generation which is using the internet.  This shows that 93% of all Teens aged from 12-17 are using the inter, 93% of all people aged between 18-29 are online, 81% of all people aged between 30-49 are online, 70% of all people aged between 50-64 are online and only 38% of people aged 65+ are online. These figures are from 2009 and surely since then the percentage of both teens and young adults could’ve only gone up? So how close to 100% are we in 2012?

5 Top Videos (In no particular order)

Video Evaluation HW

Self Evaluation

I was pleased with the feedback I received from my fellow students about my video.  The majority of the class gave me a level 3 for aesthetics and some of the comments I received were ‘Kept it simple’ and ‘Nice use of images’. I also received mostly level 3 for creativity which included comments such as ‘Good choice of Music’ and ‘Unique facts’. For my use of technology again I received numerous level 3s and Mr Bush commented ‘Well edited’ and ‘Effective use of titles’.  I received another level 3 for my understanding for my ‘Original research’ and ‘Selective quote’. Finally, for my production value I received level 3. Overall I received 4 level 3’s and was quiet pleased with my efforts. I believe my unique facts and top 10 were the main features of my video. I think the main criticism about my video was the speed of the text and video itself, it was too fast paced and this effected the quality of my production.

Research/Video HW

1 TAKE THE LONG VIEW

We’ve learned from the history of communications technology is that people tend to overestimate the short-term impact of new technologies — and to underestimate their long-term implications. We see this all around us at the moment, as would-be savants, commentators, writers, consultants and visionaries tout their personal interpretations of what the internet means for business, publishing, retailing, education, politics and the future of civilisation as we know it. 

“We're living through a radical transformation of our communications environment”

2 THE WEB ISN'T THE NET

The internet is a series of interlinked networks which cover the world, in other words the internet is a network of networks. The World Wide Web is a collection of multimedia resources which is hosted by the internet.

3 DISRUPTION IS A FEATURE, NOT A BUG

The internet's disruptiveness is a consequence of its technical DNA. In programmers' parlance, it's a feature, not a bug – ie an intentional facility, not a mistake. And it's difficult to see how we could disable the network's facility for generating unpleasant surprises without also disabling the other forms of creativity it engenders.

4 THINK ECOLOGY, NOT ECONOMICS

The new ecosystem is expanding rapidly: it has millions of publishers; billions of active, web-savvy, highly informed readers, listeners and viewers; innumerable communication channels, and a dizzying rate of change. An ecosystem in which billions of smaller species consume, transform, aggregate or break down and exchange information goods in much smaller units – and in which new gigantic life-forms (think Google, Facebook) are emerging.

5 COMPLEXITY IS THE NEW REALITY 

Our emerging information environment is more complex – in terms of numbers of participants, the density of interactions between them, and the pace of change – than anything that has gone before.