History, Development, and Societal Impact of the Internet

By clicking a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” icon on Facebook or other media, sites can give politicians an instant read on people’s opinions. A tool commonly used is fact-checking in which citizens use the internet to find past speeches and other information that can prove a politician wrong. The internet has made the

    In today’s modern time, social media has a huge impact on political environment. How the World Changed Social Media claims, “ Such political activity as there is on social media is usually at a national level and is conducted mainly by supporters…” (Miller 142,143). Social media presents a national level bias. During the last ten years, politics has gained much traction on these sites.  For example, campaigns for national

In the past ten years the way we as a people communicate has changed greatly. No longer is it uncommon for conversations to not be face to face and now more so than ever conversations take place through text. As with any change there will be and is push back to it. The conflict over the consequences of the social media dependent society have now intensified as a result of social media playing ever greater roles in how politics is seen and even conducted. This has been a major societal question since the presidential election of 2008 and the debate has been written about, discussed, and argued by thousands of different politicians,

The Internet is, quite literally, a network of networks. It is comprised of ten thousands of interconnected networks spanning the globe. The computers that form the Internet range from huge mainframes in research establishments to modest PCs in people's homes and offices. Despite the recent hype, the Internet is not a new phenomenon. Its roots lie in a collection of computers that were linked together in the 1970s to form the US Department of Defense's communications systems. Fearing the consequences of nuclear attack, there was no central computer holding vast amounts of data, rather the information was dispersed across thousands of machines. A set of rules, of protocols, known as TCP/IP was

Internet is a double-edged sword. On one side that candidate is able to increase the chance to get more votes, on the other hand the risks have to be taken by

In his article “How Social Media is Ruining Politics”, Nicolas Carr argues that the media of today is more “encompassing and controlling than ever before. (Carr 1)” Media can be manipulated in a way that allows a candidate to have a perceived excellent reputation. However, it can also provide the candidate with a disadvantage by misrepresenting their ideas. As James Fallows, author of “ Learning to love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media”, points out, “If ideas are misrepresented, it becomes easier to lie. (Fallows 4)” Candidates can easily change the context of their message to make it more appealing on a social media platform. this change causes political issues to become an easily overlooked. He concludes that social media is primarily “used to create a warm emotional connection for a candidate rather than keeping the focus on issues that would help our country.(Carr)” In his article, “Beware of Online Filter Bubbles”, Eli Pariser expresses similar concerns to Carr. He concedes that popular internet mediums like Yahoo and Google “filter search results to fit the needs and intrests of the user. (Pariser)” The websites “filter in what users like and filter out what they dislike. (Pariser)” His concern is that “online media personalization causes important issues to be overlooked easily. (Pariser)” His research provides a

What’s everyone doing now a day? Do you see people walking around reading a book or talking face to face with another human being? Not exactly, now a day you see people walking around with phones in their hands and worrying about what their social media status looks like. Internet has become a very large influence in everyday life, impacting life from health to political beliefs. With the elections coming up in November we see candidates heading to medias to gain publicity, but non of them have used Ron Pauls’ tactic of starting his campaign online and using the Internet to his benefit.

The impact of web based communication on public attitudes and political policy making has grown from small to large. With web based communication, people are able to get information out to a larger quantity of people throughout the world. The impact is so great because we no longer need to rely on word of mouth or the media and their personal views. Now everyone can get involved and go online to get information. As stated in the article (the impact of web based communication on election and political policy making). Technology allows for the mass distribution of a one way message from one to many.

There’s competition and capitalism at work, in the context of the impact on certain retailers of technology, the technology we’re talking about specifically is the internet and the impact via the internet is from retailers overseas who are generally domiciled in the countries of origin of the merchandise (that we’re considering) verses, retailers here in Australia. Technology has hindered retail in this country, by how much we’re absolutely uncertain, but anecdotally, the evidence is in retailers talk about customers coming, trying on, getting details, taking images on phones of labelling on merchandise to get it right, then going off shore and buying that dress or garment, from an online source overseas, the same thing applies to

With the rise and constant evolution of the internet, so too has the interest in researching its impacts. With increasing internet penetration, information diffusion across networks is growing significantly. Intuitively thinking, many posit that the internet revolution has profoundly impacted policy turnout and voter mobilization by allowing people low-cost information, as well as easier means of mobilization and communication, via forums, mass email, etc. Furthermore, the closely associated entity of social networks has become increasingly relevant, due to the ways social network sites can mirror offline networks, while providing internet benefits such as instantaneous communication and mobilization. Despite assumed results of the internet,

In recent years, many scholars have begun recognizing the importance of social media and the Internet in politics, particularly an increase of political involvement by social media users. (Ancu & Cozma, 2009). Historically the Internet first became involved in the political arena in 1996 with the election between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. (Trammell, 2007) Each election since has seen an increase in candidate participation on Internet forums and social media websites. In a political campaign, the Internet and social media provide ways to release information to the masses and connect further with their voters. It also allows voters to share their political views with friends, express support for specific candidates, and share campaign material

Today’s impact of web-based communication on public attitudes and political policy making has influenced the way we see politics and the structure of our government, we the people get a say in everything, web-based communication is what most politicians look at, believe

The statement: “The Impact of Web-based communication on public attitudes and political policy making”, has been a fiery hot topic for the past couple of years. As the internet grows and becomes more engrossed with people online, and their opinions, it becomes a domino effect of sorts on public attitudes, and the making of political policies. The internet as established online forums, where people who share the same opinions are able to go and “meet up” with one another to discuss the issues of the day. However, these online forums have a greater impact on society than people realize.

Social media has grown at phenomenal rates over the past decade, with its rise being easily visible in several fields such as publishing, business, and activism, among others. The rise of its use in the field of politics is well known by those who are on and off social media, as a result of increasing number of politicians using this global platform to their maximum advantage.

There are dangers of online communication such as social networks where users can lie about who they are [4]“Megan thought she was being abused by 16-year-old Josh Evans, she was actually talking to Lori Drew, the 49-year-old mother of one of her former friends who, it is alleged, had set up a fake profile to taunt Megan.” in social networking sites it is very easy for people to