Characteristics and roles of the Russian blogosphere-2000
Essay - 7 pages - Design and digital creation
At the time when the world became attracted to the new technologies, and especially to the Internet, Russia did not consider it immediately. But the introduction of Microsoft 95, which included the Cyrillic encoding, was the predominant element for Russian to equip themselves with computers at...
AgoraVox & citizen journalism - A case study
Essay - 5 pages - Design and digital creation
Forums, community websites, personal pages and blogs are often cited as the most striking examples of the social revolution brought by the Internet. For several years now, the Web 2.0 has become an Eldorado for those who wish to express their ideas and opinions. This desire for expression...
Journalism and internet comments
Essay - 3 pages - Design and digital creation
Over the past few years, the advent of the Web 2.0 or the "social Internet" allowed almost every existing website to integrate social elements into the content it produces. Facebook, Twitter or YouTube are often cited as perfect examples of how this social revolution has reshaped the way we...
Interactive journalism, "Journalism without journalists"?
Essay - 3 pages - Design and digital creation
Commentators, including journalists themselves, regularly talk about the crisis that journalism, especially the printed press, has been facing for a few years. Newspapers seem to be 'an endangered species', as plenty of local ones have shut since the beginning of 2008. Yet the plight of...
Facebook success analysis
Essay - 4 pages - Design and digital creation
Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of now the social networking site has over 500 million active users across the globe. Users can create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages,...
Blogs and information in Italy
Essay - 6 pages - Design and digital creation
Democracy is not reducible to the regular election of national representatives through an equitable voting process. In its most demanding version, it actually has to guarantee to everyone the same access to information, to be “a genuine struggle for knowledge”, to quote the Genoese...
Discuss the effect of the internet on higher education
Essay - 2 pages - Design and digital creation
The Internet has a big influence over life in the society. Higher Education has a lot of web usage. Indeed, the Internet could make the link between the multitude of information and the people who are using it. Each Internet user has to be careful about everything he reads or uses, because this...
Children and Internet: a revolution within the family
Essay - 8 pages - Design and digital creation
The Internet Revolution is not only a technological revolution, but also a revolution within a family, as it influences the development of children and relationships within the family. My cousin is 9 years old and I can see big differences in the use of Internet between her and me at the same...
The reaction of audience to new media: a new share of the Media consumption?
Essay - 3 pages - Design and digital creation
When a new product enters a market and succeeds in meeting the needs of consumers, it upsets the traditional market and changes the habits of the consumers. Concerning the new media uses in a global world, I choose to focus on the reaction of the audience to the introduction of Internet and free...
Critique of a US media: Digg.com
Essay - 2 pages - Design and digital creation
Digg is, a very famous website in American media, and is typical of the web 2.0 phenomenon. Digg is a popularity website that allows users to vote for news / stories / websites / images / podcasts posted by other users in order to make them appear on the front page. This practice is called social...
The respect of copyright on the Internet
Essay - 15 pages - Design and digital creation
In this work, I have chosen to talk about the respect of the law in e-business. More specifically, I'm interested in the problem that artists and music producing companies are facing, namely the non-conformance to of copyright acts through peer to peer and free download. We have all heard...
Media in France: radio, television, internet (2006)
Essay - 2 pages - Design and digital creation
The history of the French television goes back to the 1930s, when the first channel was launched (Radio PTT-Vision), and France introduced television as the 4th country in the world to have television. The first channels in France were its state channels. The Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision...
Knowledge management according to Castells
Essay - 4 pages - Design and digital creation
In this report you will find things that I learned about Manuel Castells. First I would like to introduce this author. I think it is important to know who he is. After that it should be easy to understand his thought about knowledge. Manuel Castells was born in Spain in 1942. At school, he...
Downloading on the internet as an ethical issue
Essay - 4 pages - Design and digital creation
The growth of Internet has numerous consequences in business and ethics, particularly in accessing information. The following report deals with music and movies based as an ethical issue. Many data sharing softwares like KaZaa, E-mule or BitTorrent, a system which is now used by millions of...
Globalisation and the mass media
Essay - 5 pages - Design and digital creation
The Internet is above all, a decentralised system of interactive communication. And Internet-enthusiasts have seen it as a way to introduce more communication between different communities around the world, as well as an outstanding mean to re-invent and develop democracy. For the first time in...
