Week1-Info+Society

=Week 1: The Information Society, the Internet, and the WWW=


 * The **Internet** is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a //network of networks// that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies.
 * Video Link : [|History of Internet]
 * Generativity- Technological generativity generally describes the quality of the Internet and modern computers that allows people unrelated to the creation and operation of either to produce content in the form of applications and in the case of the Internet, blogs.
 * Information Society: According to Hassen: information (& ideas, concepts, innovation, data) has replaced labor and machinery as "central organizing force of society"


 * RSS - Really Simple Syndication
 * syndication of web content (news updates, headlines, stories, listing of events, etc.)
 * News Aggregators - RSS readers, feed readers (ex. Google Reader)
 * **Benefits: Personalize the news you receive, collect news from multiple sources**
 * News and Emerging Technologies
 * Past: agenda-setting finction of news and broadcasting (Web 1.0)
 * Present: RSS feeds, aggregators, narrowcasting (Web 2.0)

Packet switching –to ensure reliable transmission

Internet Protocol (IP) provides a unique address for packets identifying both sender and reciever
 * In 1995 Amazon.com and e-Bay were introduced


 * **[|Mark I]**
 * The first programmable digital computer made in the United States
 * Was built in partnership with IBM and Harvard University in 1944
 * It weighed 5 tons, used 500 miles of wire, and was 8 feet tall and 51 feet long
 * It ran nonstop for 15 years
 * **ENIAC**
 * Was funded by the war department to calculate firing of artillary (a job previously done by hand)
 * Used paper card readers from IBM
 * Weighed 30 tons, filled a 20x40 foot room, and it used 18,000+ vacuum tubes
 * [|UNIVAC]
 * First commercial computer
 * used magnetic tape, not punch cards


 * summarize key points of readings here