World Wide Web

Controlled Chaos The internet has a dominating influence over todays world, because it acts as a central source of information, entertainment, and communication. Essentially the internet is vital for performing everyday tasks, but there are also negative sides to the internet. On a good note, almost anything can be researched on the web because it stores ample amounts of data. For example, students prefer to search the internet over searching through library books to find data while conducting…

Academic researcher, Danah Boyd, argues in her article, “Wikipedia as a Site of Knowledge Production”, of how using Wikipedia as a credible source should be accepted. Many students have been told to steer away from Wikipedia, but Boyd does a superb job of discussing how the information on Wikipedia is easy to understand, it is new and frequently evolving, and it is less bias than books. Some may say that Wikipedia isn’t credible because people can always change the information at any time, but…

protocol being used it’s not the most common and it’s quite old. Ip4 is used by 94 percent of networks and computers as of now and ip6 was developed all the way back in 1998 with a mobile revision in 2004. Berners lee is considered the father of the world wide web and he created it actually just for physicists to share extraneous amounts of data more easily. He wanted to create a common ground for computers to use and share data, and he did just that. Today the internet,…

with devices has lessened the amounts of intimacy in human communication, isolating people from the real world. I believe that as humans face to face conversing is needed for us to lose this feeling of loneliness and this can only be achieved if the amount of time spent on technology is reduced. Social media sites like Facebook were developed to connect us to our family and friends around the world with more efficiency and ease. Sites like Facebook have allowed us to communicate in revolutionary…

Internet. It has opened up so many doors not just for producers, but also for the whole world to the point that we have become reliant on it. The introduction of the Internet brought file transferring software services, which has made life a lot easier for Producers and clients to work together, even if they are the other side of the world. This Cloud of infinite Digital space can be used all over the world, safely storing work for ease of access, more of this subject will be explained in…

swallowed by the world of technology. Someone who is so engulfed by technology has the ability to find the self control in themselves to choose to spend time with someone rather than stare at a phone screen. The part of your brain that forms self control is the dorsal fronto-median cortex (“Area responsible for self-control”). One uses this area on the midline of the brain just above the eyes to resist urges. When one can juggle time spent with those in the real world and the world of the…

fairly new phenomenon of online consumption but she does not mention the social consequences that result in online shopping. Although the Internet connects the world, the online shopper becomes alienated from the social space with real people, in real-time. The shopper in the virtual world of consumption becomes separated from the real world and the act of shopping is then a detached and individual act; an act that one does on their own time and in their own customized space, away from the rest…

and self-reflection that needs to be in place in order for change and awareness to happen. Also being put in leadership positions almost every semester at Calvin has reinforced my drive to not only become an entrepreneur but a leader in the business world. Calvin’s business program specifically seems to cultivate workers not leaders of companies, which makes it hard to think differently than those around you, who are focused on the next job rather than the next idea. I still have yet to learn an…

More often than not, between two people, a quick search on Google about a current event will output different results. The “Top Picks” on their Netflix home screens will not match up. The advertisements that constantly pop up on the sides of their screens may depict the pair of pants or shoes that they were looking at only a day ago on an unrelated website. Major-league companies like Google, Yahoo, and Facebook have the vast majority of their users oblivious to their unceasing content…

information on almost any area of interest. As years go by, the Internet persistently effects changes radically in numerous areas of human activities, which includes commerce. Experts are of the opinion that information space, generally known as the "world wide web," develops by over a million pages daily as more individuals use the Internet for information, education, business, entertainment and other individual reasons. It doesn't take a business specialist to understand that this occurrence…