Clay Shirky: End of audience blog tasks
Media Magazine reading Media Magazine 55 has an overview of technology journalist Bill Thompson’s conference presentation on ‘What has the internet ever done for me?’ It’s an excellent summary of the internet’s brief history and its impact on society. Go to our Media Magazine archive , click on MM55 and scroll to page 13 to read the article ‘What has the internet ever done for me?’ Answer the following questions: 1) Looking over the article as a whole, what are some of the positive developments due to the internet highlighted by Bill Thompson? Spotify or Snapchat – but is also makes it next to impossible to stop spam, abuse or the trading of images of child abuse. 2) What are the negatives or dangers linked to the development of the internet? Extremists and radicals can use the network to try to influence people to join their cause, and fraud, scams, rip-offs and malicious software are everywhere. 3) What does ‘open technology’ refer to? Do you agree with the idea of ‘op