tute3 19/01

One aspect of today’s lecture that I found interesting was the connection between technology and media. As defined in the lecture,” technology is the study of mechanical arts and their application to the world” “When technology is used for social and cultural communication that technology becomes a medium of communication”. This raises the concept that the media are in fact media of communication. Moreover, there is another concept of importance which is Virtual community. Virtual community is a group of people who communicate via internet. Early internet studies also identified the term of Individual identity which refers to a way to explain how people express who they are via the internet. This means that anyone can represent his self as someone he is not in reality.
On the early internet people who were isolated used the internet to meet other people ad share common interest. With the internet boom of the 1990’s the focus has moved to networks where the individual is the common thread. Here comes the Web 2.0 which is a new way of using internet with features as Folksonomy which refers to organizing knowledge; user-generated content which is the idea that people create photo, images…and put it on the internet; and finally open API which means sharing openly between services on the internet. In fact collaboration a community is here the central element. Even normal people who are not expert could put on internet something to share. This new Web was called The Read-Write web as oppose to the previous version “read only”. This timeline of how the internet changed and how social networks were born are changing a little the way consider the web and those social networks. It’s only lecture 3, I am looking forward to see new things about these technologies that I use in my everyday life and that I don’t know much about.