The Virtual Revolution Notes

PART 1

• Tim Burners Lee - Created the web -> He was blamed to create web adicts + open relmes of knowledge
• There is a Digital Divide of : } Digital haves + Digital have nots
• All Gore - Vice President of US  = interent is a "empowering tool"
• Nearly 35million people are online everyday
• 1/4 of the planet use the web
• A billion £ is sepent on the web
• 5million people use dating websites a month
• 40% of men use the web for porn
• 18 million read blogs in West London
• Internet Revolution is compared to the Industrial revolution
• More than 65 million use wikipedia a month
• Ordinary people can author and edit wiki -> this challenges authority and leady to pluralism and people power.
• Andrew Keen -> Internet is reducing culture
• The Well by Stewart Brand -> where everything came about e.g FB,twitter ->Libertarianism
• Jhon Perry Barlow believes the self expression should have no limits -> " control what people believe by controlling what they have access to"
• Ushahidi allows people in kenya to have voices
• 1991 -> was the first website
• Accuracy of wikipedia ?
• Libertarianism VS. counter culturalism -> reject authority, state control , reject censorship
• Blogging allows -> Self expression
• All Gore -> the internet is "exciting and revolutionary"
• Internet [Paradiym shift] -> that the internet reshaped our thinking just like the printing press

PART 2

• Shawn Fanning -> owner and founder of Napster
• Music privacy gone global and people breaking the law for the 1st time
• He though that it wouldnt change the music industry
• 2001 -> napster was shut down
• A way that web threatened tradional business
• Metallica -> biggest threat at the time and had great contempt for illegaling downloading
• Chad Hurley -> Co-founder and CEO of Youtube says that it gives "everyone a chance too be seen"
• Over 2 billion videos are uploaded a day
• Youtubes 1st video uploaded 2005
• Old hierarchys are still their but eventually when you get big you have to join up with traditional media e.g: youtube->music companies
• The Huffington Post by Ariana Puffington -> 1st news paper type  website
• Jimmy Wales = co founded of wikipedia
• Youtube allows -> plurality-> freedom of voices

Summary- (pros + cons)  :

   (+)                                                             (--)     

Democratication -> voice                              Control

Enpowerment                                              Elites and Hierarchy

Creative Freedom                                        New Gate Keepers -> editors,producers who control  Innovation                                                   the media/ control the "gate"      

Equality                                                      Colonisation -> The taking over of businesses/elites  

UGC e.g: Youtube                                       Piracy

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