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    computer platform developing company that specialized in business markets and higher education” (Steve Jobs biography). Unfortunately, even though the NeXT company had the claim to fame of being the platform on which Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, the company was a miserable failure. Even so, Apple bought the company for a whooping $400 million in 1997, when it desperately needed an unparalleled and unprecented software for its new line of computer (Steve Jobs biography.) This background

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    Globally, the estimate for Internet users in 2016 comes to around 46.1 percent, a three percent increase from 2015 (“Internet Users in the World,” Internet Live Stats). In a world where almost half of the population has Internet most people cannot imagine their lives without constant access to news sources. In this, different platforms that involve the sharing of information include: physical newspaper, online news sources, Facebook, and other social media platforms. The sharing of news stories

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    Electronic commerce, more commonly abbreviated as e-commerce, is the action of buying and selling products or services through the medium of electronic information systems such as computer networks - the most common of which being the World Wide Web, or internet (Dorogovtsev & Mendes, 2003). A variety of technologies are used to facilitate e-commerce including electronic funds transfer (EFT) which facilitates the electronic exchange of money, online transaction processing (OTP) which handles the

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    stumbling on thin, wavering legs, before falling underneath the onslaught of memes and photoshopped cat pictures, the undisputed overlords of the world wide web. I presume everyone has those days where instead of actually moving from their bed, or their room, or even in some cases their own mind, they instead wonder about the nature of reality and the world around us. I find myself doing this around 90% of the time, and so I 'd expect that if I was thinking anything useful I would long ago have uncovered

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    Since the invention of the internet via the World Wide Web (WWW) in the 1990s, numerous communication methods among individuals have improved. Friends, families, acquaintances have the capability to interact and connect at no charge disregarding of their locations as a result of the Computer-Mediated-Communication (CMC). With the improvement of the social media platforms such as Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, IM, Instagram and LinkedIn, youths have become hooked to online socialization. They have been

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    The world we live in today is being constructed by the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web contains infinite amounts of information and infinite networks. These so called networks are constantly being used to people’s advantage because it makes communication faster than the speed of light. Nowadays, as a worldwide culture we are saturated into different types of social media. These different types of social media, control our daily lives whether we like it or not. Social media is a world on its own

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    Wile E. Coyote, Wrestling, and the World Wide Web: Exploring the Causes and Effects of Violence in Popular Culture Angela R. Davis Fresno Pacific University   Wile E. Coyote, Wrestling, and the World Wide Web: Exploring the Causes and Effects of Violence in Popular Culture The majority of violence results from social injustice prevalent in our society. Among the significant contributors are poverty, racism, unemployment, and substance abuse. There is also an issue of a proliferation of guns, inadequate

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    space exploration http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/spacevr-wants-to-take-you-aboard-the-international-space-station/ But what’s more, virtual reality is increasingly referring to the enhancement of interpersonal communication around the world on the same scale as the world wide web, an idea that has been dubbed “metaverse.” The implementation of virtual reality in our daily lives on a massive scale has the potential to change how we value. Is the full scale integration of virtual reality into our daily lives

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    (PIPA) are trying to be passed that are trying to control the internet. If the internet is censored and controlled by the government we will be losing our freedom of speech across the world-wide web. This is huge issue in other countries where people are jailed and prosecuted for thoughts and opinions published on the web. If nothing is done to stop internet censorship in America, this could be a reality for us as well. Internet freedom has been a hot topic throughout the past years. With

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    politically incorrect intentions of the word gay. Although the now grown use of distant interactions is what caused the surge of negativity, it now combats the incorrectness of the word’s new meaning by the instantaneous abilities provided by the world wide web. This juxtaposition of empathy versus indecency and the sudden widespread knowledge of the word can explain the power brought on by technology. When looking at this phenomenon it is important to consider the real impact of what is posted online

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