Growing Up Digital Analysis

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THE INTERNET OF THINGS
Giovahni Verdieu The Internet is one of the most important things in our lives right now. As its fueled by advancing portable technologies like smart phones or laptop computers, it’s hard to imagine a time when I could search for answers for any question I wanted just by using Google. It’s even harder to imagine the Internet not existing in the first place. The lates 1980 gave rise to the Inrent and the World Wide Web or “www” for short. The world was introduced to an information space where web resources could be accessed. In the original reading, “Growing up Digital”. John Seely Brown describes the way web distributes media. “The first thing to notice is that the media …show more content…

Applications like Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook have become my daily source for information on the world around me. While my parents may watch the news and get information on a more cyclical basis, I can usually find out about something pretty quickly just by checking social media. A blessing and a curse the Internet has turned into sort of our own double edged sword. An article in The Huffington Post explains. “But the other side of the virtual coin is that the internet can cause havoc amongst the living world, disconnecting our reality, causing us to look for EVERYTHING online, and drawing us away from the tactile here and now.” While the speed at which information travels has dramatically increased, so has the synthesised feeling of the …show more content…

Having already built up a reality on based on common face-to-face interaction, it can be a little difficult to accept anything else as a replacement. “Millennials have the highest social networking penetration of any generation, and the highest Facebook and Twitter use rates to match” says eMarketer.com. This isn’t hard to imagine, as a Millenial/GenZ kid I used the Internet as a sandbox, and now as an adult I use it pretty much the same way, with the exception of an an added platform for ideas and art to flourish. Musicians like me around the world rely on the Internet to showcase our work and accumulate

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