Thanks to the growth of information technology‚ we now live in the ‘Computer Age’. The Internet has many uniquely modern functions. Yet‚ there are risks and bad effects when using it. Four pros are going to fight against four cons below. Widely used in offices‚ research institutes‚ information centers and education‚ the Internet has greatly raised the accuracy and efficiency of work‚ and saved much money and manpower for human beings. This multi-medium assists us in our work in so many ways. It
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Internet Addiction A New Clinical Phenomenon and Its Consequences KIMBERLY S. YOUNG St. Bonaventure University Center for Online Addiction New research identifies online users who became hooked on chat rooms‚ interactive games‚ and even eBay only to see their lives become increasingly unmanageable because of the Internet. Prior research explores the addictive qualities sustaining drug and alcohol abuse‚ pathological gambling‚ and even video game addiction; however‚ given the relative
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Internet Security. How safe is your computer?Robert WilliamsSAINT LEO UNIVERSITYCOM201Professor Gary RogersNovember 22‚ 2013Internet Security. How safe is your computer?The Internet is a very powerful tool that we use to navigate and communicate with the rest of the world. Internet users often rely on interacting with other computers and programs to accommodate their different needs. Anytime you place your technology device on the Internet‚ there will always be a possibility of attracting a virus
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at night‚ these tell us that we are living now in the modern world. Technology is anywhere in anytime. It has everything to offer.The internet is one of the products of technology. It is the general term that we use‚ while the World Wide Web is the specific term. With the use of computer and other devices/gadgets (cellphone‚ iPod‚ etc.) we can access the internet‚ and within the net we can go through different web sites that gives us information‚ services and entertainment. It can be applicable to
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Internet Pornography We all get up in the middle of the night to get a drink or a bite to eat. We notice a very small light is on in the computer room in the low lit corner. There is a small part on the monitor that is not blocked by your teenager’s head‚ and you get a glimpse of a woman that is revealing her breast. Now what can one do about this happening? We have the choice of the government regulations on the internet‚ or we can discuss with our teenagers that it is highly wrong to
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History of The Internet Phillip Johnson The Internet is a worldwide connection of thousands of computer networks. All of them speak the same language‚ TCP/IP‚ the standard protocol. The Internet allows people with access to these networks to share information and knowledge. Resources available on the Internet are chat groups‚ e-mail‚ newsgroups‚ file transfers‚ and the World Wide Web. The Internet has no centralized authority and it is uncensored. The Internet belongs to everyone and to no
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Internet Censorship For centuries governments have tried to regular materials deemed inappropriate or offensive. The history of western censorship was said to have begun when Socrates was accused "firstly‚ of denying the gods recognized by the State and introducing new divinities‚ and secondly of corrupting the young." He was sentenced to death for these crimes. Many modern governments are attempting to control access to the Internet. They are passing regulations that restrict the freedom
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Strategy And Internet Michael E. Porter: Strategy and Internet After being developed in 1996‚ Internet continuously transforms world’s social interaction and activity. Nowadays‚ the importance of Internet in society is high that it is necessary for countries to have Internet access in order to be able to develop. One of the reasons is that Internet has a big impact in business industry since it’s discovery‚ for instance‚ in 2008‚ a study has shown that 77% of the US fastest growing companies
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definitions for Internet addiction during the past decade. Widyanto and Griffiths (2006) present the most general definition of this construct as being a subset of a technological addiction‚ which is defined as a non-chemical or behavioral addiction that involves human-machine interaction. These addictions can either be passive‚ such as viewing television‚ or active‚ such as playing computer games. It should be noted that there are many terms used to describe excessive Internet use: problematic
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“Internet and Children” Inroduction Background of the study Now that the Internet is increasingly within everyone’s reach‚ children are more and more exposed‚ on line‚ to risks which their parents cannot always control: harassment‚ abuse‚ pornography‚ incitement to racism and suicide‚ as well as cyber-bullying. The last-named refers to bullying by persons of a violent disposition who go on-line with the intention of using the new information technologies to cause harm. This kind of bullying
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