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would cause a two-tier internet. Net neutrality is extremely important to hordes of people and it is important that petition against the F.C.C. (Federal Communications Commission). As stated, the F.C.C. wants to repeal net neutrality, but in turn this would harm many minority groups. Already marginalized groups such as people of color, the LGBT community, low-income, and religious minorities rely on the internet for education opportunities and if there was not an open internet these opportunities

that can be conducted on the structure of this platform, several Internet GIS may be resolved. Internet GIS, while a powerful tool, has a broad range of issues varying from technological complications to social justice issues. There are many Web GIS issues that must be resolved in order for its full potential to be maximized. Firstly, the Web GIS environment is dependent on several technological factors. Among these are internet connection and speed (Dragicevic, 2004), traffic intensity, data

and the trading of goods and services through the Internet, without time and geographical barriers (Network Solutions, 2014). This could include retail sites, large online music stores such as iTunes or business to business (B2B) transactions between companies. This is a new emerging technology and has brought many advantages (Network Solutions, 2014).

anywhere in the ballpark of $40-$100+ to companies like Verizon, Comcast, at&t, ect. ect. so that you can have full access to the internet. Net Neutrality says, “Okay so you have already paid x amount of dollars. Have a nice day! Enjoy your internet!” But without Net Neutrality, big internet companies can come in and say, “Okay, so you’ve paid x amount of dollars for your internet. But, oh, if you want to get on Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, or Facebook,

with thousands of people connected to the internet problems are bound to happen. Recently our campus suffered a problem with the internet causing students to be disconnected from the school’s Wi-Fi. With problems of this nature consistently occurring students are left without a resource to study, communicate, and entertainment themselves on their free time. This problem concerns me because I am a student at this university who relies mostly on using the internet. Attending Norwich University is not cheap

Google fiber is a project to build an incredibly fast and reliable internet network infrastructure using fiber-optic communication. The project started in Kansas City, Kansas; Kansas City, Missouri; North Kansas City, Missouri; Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah, San Jose California and a few other states. The initial locations were chosen following a competitive selection process. Over 1,100 communities applied to be the first recipient of the fiber optic technology. On March 30, 2011, Google announced

What is an Information Society and how to we define Australia’s place in it. That is the question we have been asked to evaluate. This question in itself is as ambiguous as the key terms surrounding it. For example Information Science can be defined as 'a multidisciplinary field of study, involving several forms of knowledge, given coherence by a focus on the central concept of human recorded information’ (Bawden, 2012, page 3) or ‘the science and practical dealing with the effective collection

results of an experiment where I disconnect from the Internet for 24 hours. While disconnected, I will not be allowed any access to search engines, browsers, or applications that require Internet. The only possible source of telecommunication would be through text and call without Internet. The last time where I remember living a day without Internet for 24 hours was before I owned my first ever laptop, which was back in 2007. Ever since then, my Internet usage and reliance only increased exponentially

Evaluating Visuals “It’s a visual world and people respond to visuals”, Joe Sacco. Visuals add power, interest and weight to a presentation. Visuals when added to a presentation not only help present the information you are communicating, but also add color and emotion (Locker & Kienzler, 2009). With the recent changes in technology, and how easy it is to create visuals now has resulted presenters using visuals without thought about the purpose the visual is fulfilling. Visuals should only be

available to the public. When the internet was first public there was little to nothing one could do with it. Since then, the internet has flourished into one of the biggest roles in society. It is something that is prevalent in everyday life whether it is for work, school, vacation planning, shopping, online dating, etc.. It is hard to imagine a world without the internet especially if one has grown up with it. As impactful it has been some say that the internet is detrimental to today's people and