The Great Levelling ?

The Great Levelling

. The web is remaking the world
. virtual reveolution ( broadcast on BB)
. Africa - small town Ghana - 'connecting humanity'
. sir tim berners lee - invented the world wide web
. 'digital divide' - difference between Africa and UK , digital haves and digital have nots
. 'connecting humanity'
. 2 billion people online
. bill gates - ' the internet now is how mankind communicates'
. 'empowering tool' ( Al Gore)
. Binary opposition - helps us challenge authority , government uses it for spying.
. web allows anyone to publish anything
. quater of planet uses web
. 35 million log on or more
. web is where 1 users a week
. newyork - second place in the world that mostly uses the web
. 5 million use dating web
. surveys say that up to 40% of british watch porn
. 18 million read blogs ( west london)
. challenges business models
. more than 65 million use wiki each month
. 14 million articles - annonimous writers
. enables ordinary people to shape thoughts together,
. 1985 'the well' without it facebook etc might not exist
. 'exciting revolutionary' ( all gore)
. 35 million use internet everyday.

 
IS THE INTERNET GOING TO BE A GREAT LEVELLER, DOES THE INTERNET GIVE POWER TO PEOPLE ?

. she compared internet revolution with industrial revolution
. people have equal access and an equal voice
. is wikipedia acuurate ? many people edit the page, its free.
. ' Steven Fried ' perfect acceptable information' ordinary people sharing kowledge
. 1960's individuals having freedom - libertarialism
. web and internet are not the same
. web = ink webpages , anyone can access anything
. internet = routes of 1960's american military hooked together wth telephone system
. deep underground development of the web
. 1954 12 european countries collaborated
. 1980 ' information management' a proposal his ideas, became world wide
. 1991 first website went online
. 'hypertexts' way of linking documents
. HTML link to other webmail networks
. no government to regulate - ultimate levelling
. web was set on coalition course - social order and hierachy
. kenya - good example that the internet can be used for social good
. ushahidi - means witness , people posting up abuses so gov was forced to protect people, this goes to show that the internet is important
. 'paradigm' , shift on a par with the printing press - revolutionary change
. birth of internet - first emerge 1960 - US military
. unique address for document -url universal language of internet
. internet resists authority- no hierachy - cant control 'open source' meaning anyone can access for free ( eg fire fox)
. 1975 radio, vietnam war just finished - bill gates arrived in mexico to work for company 30 years ago rocket enthistiasts
. altar
. basic programme- bill gates
. 1995 internet explorer set out competition
. microsoft more than 90% of market - monopoly
. master shortie publish videos on youtube
. corportae ideology - control and monterise internet
. on other hand internet is about collaborating
. napster
. more than a billion hits per day ( youtube)