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my random thoughts on internet after Postman
Feb 26 2008, 3:58 PM EST
-One thing we've failed to pay attention to is online gaming sites. People log in a massive amount of time on these sites at both school and work. These are purely for entertainment purposes and are often accessed during traditionally productive time periods. Moreover, the medium they are transmitted through often varies from game-to-game-- some allow for a greater degree of socializing than others (e.g. Xbox live, yahoogames, etc.). An enormous amount of socializing occurs on these, and they are becoming more prominent all of the time (particularly xbox live) and could very well represent one of the most obvious forebearers of internet-computer-tv integration-- a interestingly hybridized revolution in medium.-If the medium is the message we need to face the fact that the internet is now an ever-changing, ever-evolving and ever-growing amalgamation of a wide variety of mediums. As such, we should certainly not focus on it as being a single medium or, perhaps instead, state that our purpose is to analyze a particular medium within the internet. -Furthermore, the internet allows users to select which medium they wish to access. This means that the internet mediums that are most-accessed may actually reflect the various desires of users to a greater degree than any previous mediums. This in turn could mean that the message of the medium is, to a previously unprecedented degree, becoming the message of the masses. However we must be cautious; until nearly all users are given the ability to customize and even create mediums that completely conform to their own desires, this message continues to be structured (by structured structures predisposed to act as structuring structures...? My apologies for mangling this quote.) Do you find this valuable? |
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Melmak |
1. RE: my random thoughts on internet after Postman
Mar 11 2008, 3:09 PM EDT
Just a thought--My brother uses his Wii almost exclusively to access the internet at home. What effects might that medium of access have on his experience online? How many other people are now using something other than the standard Mac/PC hardware and software to get online? Do you find this valuable? |
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mk7718 |
2. RE: my random thoughts on internet after Postman
Mar 13 2008, 4:46 PM EDT
What about mobile phones as a medium of access to the Internet ... means that Internet is always with you ... services like fring let you take your internet voice community along with you and be online all the time ... and then there are services like QIK (www.qik.com) which allow you to stream live video to the internet directly from the cellphone. What consequences can this have on security and privacy? then you also have services like Google Mobile Maps which can triangulate your position from the cellphone infrastructure and its pretty accurate for GSM networks atleast ... I seldom notice big error of position on it ... its only a matter of time when Google can and probably will make this information publicly accessible, which can mean that you can track people in real time on Google Earth ... again what impact will this have on security and privacy ... things are changing, so is the way we perceive privacy and security ...
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