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Cybercrime: The increasing access to and subsequent use of technology has dramatically impacted the way in which people communicate and conduct their daily lives. The internet for example connects people and companies from opposite sides of the world quickly, easily, and relatively cheaply. However, the internet and computer can be used in negative ways, which can have destructive impact on societies. Cybercrime is a threat against different organisations and people who computers connected to…

Cybercrime has bad influences in Growth of Internet Economy Human development has resulted in the creation and development of technology for various reasons such as economic and social uses. The internet technology is one of the developments that has become so popular in the global society. Computers have made internet economy possible as multiple business activities were shifted online. Unfortunately, the growth of the internet brought about the evil of cybercrime that develops almost at a…

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Essay Since the introduction of computers, they have served me for numerous purposes. In his book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr suggests that even though the internet is an important tool, it is also a distraction causing users to be less attentive people. By constantly being on the web people are acquiring bad reading habits, this leads to users only skimming articles or anything they read. In my…

She conjoins interpretations of Holloway and Gramsci to explain her definition that politics is of a dual nature and encompasses the organizational practices of who gets what, why, how and where. For politics to be radical, it must seek progressive social and political change, but the question becomes – how can radical politics become feasible political systems…

themselves to be numerous. It appears that the conception of each turning point invention has sparked discourse, often negative, on how the new technology is changing our minds. Thompson’s recollection of how the world reacted to the printed word clarifies Pinker’s statement. The manner of which the world reacts to different types of innovation varies from worries over its effects over our memory, to how the abundance of information will overshadow the important occurrences with trivial matters…

Currently, technology is overwhelming and revolutionizes the way humans live. Technology makes everyday tasks simpler and faster to accomplish. Nicholas Carr shares insight on the impact of technology in, Is Google Making us Stupid? Carr believes many people think technology only has positive impacts on society, but negative impacts are hiding right under the surface. I agree with Carr’s argument when he states Google is making the human mind lazy. Loss of Efficiency The more often Carr…

“Should Gamers be Prosecuted for Virtual Stealing?” By Alex Weiss Textual Analysis Alex Weiss, a graduate from Arizona State University, wrote this essay on virtual theft for his Work and Play in Contemporary Fiction/Digital Media class. It was later published in the online magazine Slate (Bullock and Goggin 731). Weiss is clearly an educated writer, but refrains from fairly acknowledging the other side of his argument: that gamers should not be prosecuted for virtual theft. The title of his…

In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, written by Nicholas Carr, the author is arguing the effect Google and the internet has had on not only the research process but the brain itself. Carr states the internet has simplified the process of research and decreased the amount of time a writer spends on research by becoming proficient in skimming and scanning the text. He then claims the internet has altered his brain's reasoning by stating “And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away…

1. A brief summary of the range, contents, and argument of the article.As we tried to answer the question #2 of case study 1 – SPE Breach: The Hack of the Century, “Discuss why despite substantial investments made by at the past, Sony still suffers security weaknesses?” (Bechor, 2017), this article by Julisch (2013) attempts to answer the similar question, “why despite substantial investments, there are still major security weaknesses in today’s information systems” by identifying the four…

the importance of digital literacy in Filipino education and implementation of digital literacy for their economy. Many developing nations are focusing on digital literacy education to compete globally, include the government officials around the world that have emphasized the importance of it. Economically, socially and regionally marginalized people get benefited with ECDL / ICDL programed that has been founded by ECDL Foundation. This foundation has the certifying authority of the leading…