Howard Rheingold

In the introduction to this piece, Rheingold expresses his personal journey into technology. He enthuses that he had tracked the advent of the internet and new communication technology for a long time, and it “…did attract his interest” to hear about PCs. It made him feel like a ”man from tomorrow”. (Rheingold 28). He enjoyed learning about computers and digital technology so much that he actually made a career out of it…

In the past, during the Old Stone Age, everyone was mostly nomadic, meaning they migrated moving from place to place to follow game animals and ripening fruit for survival. Also, during this time early religious beliefs were called animism and that is the belief that the world was full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals, objects, or dreams. Yet, multiple years later there was a Neolithic agriculture revolution, people begin to grow their own crops, which gave them a reason to…

“Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create” (Howard Rheingold). The first device that allowed long distance voice communication was the Telephone invented in 1876 by Alexander Bell and Elisha Gray. This was the start to voice communication and lead the way for phones to come which soon became mobile. The first mobile…

“The emergence of participatory cultures will enable deep social changes,” said Howard Rheingold. Participatory culture lends the exchange of diverse perspectives, community involvement, and empowerment through online platforms for social groups. Social media activism—as seen in the Ozgecan Aslan case against gender-based violence in Turkey on Twitter—and YouTube—transitioning from amateur to professional, revenue-targeted content—depict how participatory culture has revolutionized the way new…