is the internet‚ bringing with it changes towards a more fluid flow of different cultures. The accessibility of the internet enables the differences and complexities among cultures to be presented to the world and be understood. If long ago‚ traditions of some ethnic minorities and far-flung societies were unknown‚ people nowadays could have a glimpse of what is happening at the other side of the globe. This proliferation of information and knowledge is one of the benefits of the internet phenomenon
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Journalism and the Internet The development of new technologies and mass media influenced dramatically modern culture. In actuality‚ people spend a considerable part of their life while watching television and surfing Internet. At the same time‚ today‚ mass media become more and more diverse offering the audience different products in order to attract a possibly larger amount of viewers. In such a situation‚ many companies operating in entertainment industry and television attempt to conduct marketing
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Creating‚ celebrating‚ and instrumentalising the online carnival Edited by David Kurt Herold and Peter Marolt Introduction Noise‚ spectacle‚ politics: carnival in Chinese cyberspace David Kurt Herold The Internet in China was developed at about the same time as the Internet in Europe and America‚ but its structures and set-up were quite different. During the late 1980s and early 1990s‚ academic institutions in China began to set up intranets on their campuses that were later connected
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society the internet has made one of the biggest impacts in our time. It’s a place where very close to almost anything can happen with something as quick as a click of your finger. Some people manage their business through the internet‚ others utilize it to socialize on networks such as Facebook‚ Twitter‚ Myspace‚ and plenty more. Then there are others who use the internet to create online bonds sometimes with complete strangers. There’s many ways you can meet people through the internet and create
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Internet Piracy has become a worldwide phenomenon and continues to grow everyday. Illegal music downloads‚ movie downloads‚ and now even video games contribute to the growing problem. In the U.S. alone more than 100 songs are downloaded every minute. There are 71‚060 jobs that are lost in the United States every year due to Online Piracy. We have to admit that people pirate a lot of data. Whether it’s for video games‚ movies‚ professional and costly products‚ or operating systems‚ people pirate stuff
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Divorce and its effect on teenagers When parents are divorced they really think of their children? Do they consider the implications of divorce on their children? What should be the priority during the divorce? Below is the story of Craig a young lady who shares her feelings about her parents’ divorce. “A message from my mother’s divorce lawyer I was surprised. Things were bad between my parents‚ and my mom had already threatened to divorce my dad once that year. Before things turned sour‚ I
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The Good and Bad of Crowdsourcing Terry Harrington Southern New Hampshire University IT-100-X3088 Introduction to Info Tech 15EW3 The Good and Bad of Crowdsourcing "...we are only as strong as we are united‚ as weak as we are divided" (Rowling‚ 2000‚ p. 723). This famous quote could not be truer when it comes to the world of internet and crowdsourcing—“ the practice of obtaining needed services‚ ideas‚ or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online
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Teen pregnancy has been a great issue that has been widely discussed about and seen to increase in the United States. According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy one-third of girls in the US get pregnant at least once by the age of 20 and most of the pregnancies are unplanned (2011). Teen pregnancies have been increasing due to the fact that teens are not using contraceptives to prevent any pregnancies and society does not do a good job on informing teens of the importance
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go to the library instead of using the Internet for research? We all know that the Internet have opened us to many possibilities and helped us to save more of our time with this fast speed technology. However‚ there are still some specific tasks that Internet did not convince the users‚ things such as doing a professional research through the Internet‚ but instead they prefer doing it in libraries. There reason behind this is that even though the Internet brought us a lot of convenience for the
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Abdullah Alfraihy 12/3/12 ENG 107 Ms. Daily The Internet We as opinionated people might not agree about what is the real definition of pop culture. Each culture has their own pop culture‚ which depends on diverse sources. In fact‚ there are not many feature in pop culture that actually crossed over from it’s original culture. Most of them could not be as world pop culture because of the language barrier. On the other hand‚ there are many things that did not need any outside support to
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