Abstract Nowadays‚ people spend much time in online communities to network with virtual friends and play role plays. They provide an advantage for people with special needs who cannot leave the house‚ because they benefit from the accessibility of the internet. Moreover‚ they help people who often move to stay in touch with their friends. Nevertheless‚ spending too much time in online communities leads to drawbacks in the development of the user’s personality. More energy is dedicated to the virtual
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Appraise the impact that the rise in networked society is having on different creative disciplines and identify some of the key trends‚ innovations‚ behaviours and emergent opportunities for creative disciplines. The term “networked society” describes the many different phenomena related to the social‚ political‚ economic and cultural changes caused by the increase in connected digital information. In this essay I aim to assess the value of networked society within the creative disciplines
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Today‚ technology plays a big role in today’s society. Every generation has some form of technology; may it be a laptop‚ desktop‚ cell phone‚ ipod‚ and etcetera.Over the past fourty years‚ the computer industry has taken fantastic leaps and bounds to where it is today. One of the most influential people during this time was Steve Jobs. Not only was Jobs an integral part of the rise in personal computing‚ but he was an excellent motivator for those working under him and those inspiring to be like
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Benjamin Franklin is a hero who still has an impact on us today. He invented objects that some people still use now. He invented a way to harness and conduct electricity. He also invented bifocal glasses‚ swim fins‚and a musical instrument called the glass harmonica. He was very intelligent and involved in politics. His knowledge got him to where he ended up. He started from being poor‚ to becoming very wealthy. To understand more about Benjamin Franklin‚ you will need to know about his life‚ politics
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individuals. This paper has covered some of the fields which people are using Internet for and how Internet has changed the way of humans carrying out those fields. It has also discussed about some of the issues rising from using Internet‚ what kind of impact do we have and how the future of Internet might be. Introduction When Soviet Union launched Sputnik‚ the first man-made object that is sent into the space to orbit the earth‚ on October 4‚1957‚ the United States was forced to create an invention
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John Locke’s views on society and religious and political standards were‚ at the time‚ innovating. No one had dreamed of being of equal status before it had been introduced. The Divine Right theory was being threatened and people began to back this “Social Contract” beside Locke. Ideas such as religious freedom and separation of church and state were just a couple of his ideas. The fact that he was an antislavery advocate helped him win over even more supporters. Locke describes the state of nature
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Most people in today’s society rely on cell phones for everything. Essentially due to the fact that many cell phones can do just about anything; from checking your stock to connecting to the web. Certain people prefer more accessible features‚ while others believe a phone should be used for verbal communication. These days phones are a life source to many people‚ they use them for playing games‚ talking to relatives‚ send out important information‚ and conducting business. We claim that cellular
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In his 2013 apostolic exhortation‚ Evangelii guadium (“The Joy of the Gospel”)‚ Pope Francis contentiously lamented‚ “Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest‚ where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence‚ masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work‚ without possibilities‚ without any means of escape.” Although the pope’s remarks were widely seen as an attack on capitalism and received a great deal of media attention
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Milton Friedman suggests that businesses should only be responsible for making profits. If a business stays within the law‚ it is encouraged to do anything and go to any means necessary to maximize the bottom line. Other aspects such as customer happiness‚ impacts on society should not be its main concern. Porter and Kramer on the other hand suggest that we can create shared values in other words we can create economic value simultaneously by creating societal benefit and vice versa. Theoretically
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