Networking Systems

Never has a communications system played so many roles in our lives--or exerted such broad influence over our thoughts--as the Internet does today.

There are few places on this Earth, if any, where the possibilities are truly endless. However, if you detach yourself from the physical world and emerge into the “online” world, you find that this just might actually be accurate in this realm. The World Wide Web has had so much to offer to us since the early 1990s, but with this comes controversy. Unleashed onto a plane of seemingly immeasurable freedom of anonymity, was the world ready for such responsibility? Since those early days when new emerging technology changed our lives immensely, have we at all become a better place, or have we bitten off more than we can chew, and doomed our human relations forever? Exploring these concepts are three in-depth articles, including: “Growing Up Tethered” by Sherry Turkle, “The Loneliness of the Interconnected” by Charles Seife, and “Cybersexism” by Laurie Penny. Although it is thought that the Internet brings the world together, it actually does not help us politically, culturally, and economically like one would believe, as it makes us unable to be independent, isolates us from different points of view, and encourages real-world violence against women and other minority groups.

Until the 1980s, the control of the media was in the hands of the national government. From then, the control shifted to private outlets and by the 1990’s, there were more than fifty multinational companies who controlled it (“Mass Media”). Today, only about six major companies control the larger fraction of media in America (Williams, Par. 1). Norman Solomon wrote in the New Political Science Journal that most reporters and editors work for just a few huge companies. These journalists and editors are on the payroll for “mega-media institutions”, of which, only about six exist (Solomon 297). How much will the public learn if these companies generally control the output of information?

Currently, social media is the most popular method of communicating and interacting with others. It is a methodology to new media as it changes and evolves with our needs and expectations. Social media has evolved and adapted to become a huge part of our personal and professional lives.

For the young generation, in particular, the online relationships are as influential and evocative as the face-to-face relationships. In addition, as broadcasting and broadband technologies are being accessed by more and more people, the swiftness and suppleness with which the world inhabitants are communicating and socializing (both online and offline) is increasing day by day. As far as the virtual space is

This is a curious book; a text that in its physical production – its writing, its publication and possibly even its reception – says much more than its actual words disclose. Which is not to say those words are badly written or otherwise lacking. Laurence Scott has set himself the formidable task of registering the impact of the new digital technologies on our cognition, our perception and our emotions; in short, our phenomenology in its broadest sense. Other pundits take on the political, economic and social changes occasioned by the world wide web and the internet – Scott busies himself with the existential ones. The four-dimensional humans of the book’s title are our wired selves, compelled increasingly to inhabit an environment in which

In his article, The Mediatisation of Society Theory, Hjarvard (2008) deduces that media simultaneously become an integrated part of society, not to mention the existence of new media like the Internet. In fact, this integration of Internet into our daily life has made us live in the digital age where information is shared in real time and in global context. Castells (2007) even argues that in this digital age, people are able to expand their local communication activities to

Through the emergence of the Internet, the last 20 years have seen a transformation in the way the society communicates with one another. There is no doubt that the Internet has changed the way the world interacts with one another on a democratic scale. Can it be said that with the emergence of the Internet, a new public sphere has been created? If so, is this new public sphere capable of embodying the theory that Habermas constructed? Petros Iosifidis article “The Public Sphere, Social Networks and Public Service Media” (2011) examines reasons that hinder social networks from becoming a seamless public sphere, and why Public Service Broadcasting should change over to Public Service Media.

Throughout this essay I will be discussing how the digital age has transformed society in many ways. The digital age also known as the information age, is the evolution of technology in daily life and social organizations have led to the fact that the modernization of information and communication processes has become the driving force of social evolution.” This is a time period in which we live in now where Internet and email are available; this is an example of the digital age. The Information Age is the idea that access to and the control of information is the defining characteristic of this current era in human civilization.

Social media is a technological tool that allows users to share information (Business Dictionary, n.d.). Other common features include the ability for visitors to create personalized profiles or accounts where they can post information for others to view and the ability to link their accounts to others (Nations, n.d.). Within the term the “social” component means sharing with others and the “media” component refers to the technology that allows for the sharing (Nations, n.d.)

Information technology facilitates the global communication, which makes the exposure to many different and exciting possibilities incites their interest in the different cultures, making many cultures viable consumption alternatives. (Firat A F, 1997) This kind of information technology, as the core of contemporary society construction, is giving our lives and culture a great impact. It can be sure that information technology is able to improve the communication among a variety of cultures. However the use of it might affect the creativity of people with different cultures or values. The fable of "global village" has now become the undisputed social reality. The rapid development of digital media and communication technologies make people across the

The unprecedented economic and technological changes of recent decades have transformed everyday life and created a new social situation. The rapid spread of information and the growth of the global information industry can affect the identity of people and lead to the destruction of social solidarity and cultural

Unlike most trends in the business, wireless is here to stay. Businesses and individuals both enjoy the speed and convenience of wireless networking. There are no wires to deal with, making the desk and floor space around the area less cluttered. The most common way you are going to see networks set up in the office is in what we call a client/server environment. In this case the wireless adapter inside each individual node transmits its data to a WAP. WAP stands for Wireless Access Point. The WAP is a wired controller that is tied to your server and it sends and receives all data from the wireless adapters. It is the middle-man in our little chain which links the nodes to the server. You will rarely if ever see wireless used in a workgroup because the cost is too expensive for a small company. A disadvantage of a wireless network is that the wireless networks can be difficult to set up. It can take an experienced technician many hours to get a wireless network set up and running. And depending on the conditions around the network speed can fluctuate wildly. It can be affected by anything from lightning to a radio being nearby.

New media is seen as part of global change. They call this "new age" or "new era" in which, the emergence of "new media" as a phenomenon of the times, was and still is seen as part of the change of society, communication, technologies and culture; in other words, it is globalization. Technologies bring tremendous change in communication, from a global level to national, ethnic, even to each citizen. It 's rare to find a family or individual who does not have a media interaction can be (phone, tablet, smart TV ...). In schools, the lectures were digitized with the support of the material multimedia (video clips, audio clips, digital photos ...). Internet has created conditions for the beginning of a series of social networking and tools as well as individuals, from Yahoo to Gmail, from Skype to Facebook, Twitter ... Internet has become the fastest growing medium ever which was recorded in human history. If in 2006, the whole world has 1.076 billion people use the Internet, by 2016, this figure has risen to more than 3.5 billion people (http://www.internetlivestats.com). Currently, worldwide there are over 1 billion websites, more than 1.8 billion Facebook users, 307 million Twitter accounts. Every day, more than 172 billion emails are sent, nearly 9 million searches on Google, more than 1 billion views on YouTube, 36 million calls over Skype, more than 708 thousand smartphones sold, more than 6 billion Gb internet traffic. New media changed

The world is full of technology, in this ever growing world this technology needs to be connected. Everything is interconnected through the internet nowadays. The internet is the connection of assorted computer networks through a series of service providers and businesses. In order to create these networks, there needs to be devices known as routers, switches and firewalls. These devices have some very well-known vendors, such as, Cisco and Juniper. Juniper uses an operating system called Junos. Junos OS is a great network operating system because of its modularity and it’s unique and hierarchical configuration style. The operating system is very popular among many Information technology companied and service providers.