Building Your Digital Identity, Literacy, and Network
Hello! My three contributions on the class’s timeline are these: The creation of Mazewar, the first online game where players from different computers can interact with each other online. (1974) Queen Elizabeth send an email, making her the first global leader/international diplomat to do so. (1976) Google surpasses Microsoft as “the most valuable global brand,” […]
12 The web has unleashed a wave of human creativity Before the web, “ordinary” people could publish their ideas and creations only if they could persuade media gatekeepers (editors, publishers, broadcasters) to give them prominence. But the web has given people a global publishing platform for their writing (Blogger, WordPress, Typepad, Tumbler), photographs (Flickr, Picasa,
On the timeline is Mozilla FireFox released in 2004, Cello browser was available for Windows in 1993, and the Domain Name System was established in 1983. The Domain Name System is translated domain and host names to IP addresses. The Domain Name System is on database servers. When trying to get a domain name, the Domain […]
In class, we are told to make a time of three things that relates to the web. It’s more of a timeline of the history of the web. History of the Web Timeline Myspace Myspace launched August 1, 2003. Tom Anderson…
For the timeline I contributed with posts about the Internet Web privacy issue in 2012, the Morris worm, and founding of the world wide web. I chose the web privacy issue because I remember when this was happening and I remembered the concern it had caused to many who feared for their privacy. For my […]
The three contributions to the timeline are: Wikipedia Facebook is created Twitter is created I think that the creation of Wikipedia is more important. Throughout the experiences that I had with high school and college, Wikipedia was a very helpful tool for me to research and learn about things. I think the same was applicable
What can lead to isolation is a lack of both technical skills and an understanding of the social elements of the Web, both of which are required for productive social networks—and Personal Learning Networks (PLNs). It takes time and a level of humility to come to terms with the idea that knowledge is no longer […]
More or less all theorists have thought of gaze in relation to power, and mostly in a negative sense: the gazer strips the gazed and turns her into a powerless object, devoid of intelligence or agency. But in the world of webpages, gaze functions differently: it is more empowering. When a powerful website – say … Continue reading ““Nugget Assignment”: The All-Seeing Eyes”
Even before I had made any presence on the web or on social media, I had an idea that the condensing of information into easily accessible tidbits or video, that are made popular by social media, were the future. It was largely the only internet that I had ever known and it seemed to make […]
“The Internet transmits information. The Web enables (stimulates, encourages) a set of connections that, from the first link to the enormous set of links we now experience, symbolize ideas about relationship.” The Internet is a way that computers connect to each other, but the Web is the way people communicate and share information to one […]
