Media Technology and Society
Topic: Cyber Society
Cyberspace
Cyber Society
Positive impact of Cyberspace
Negative impact of Cyberspace
Social Media
Web 2.0
4. Cyberspace
Cyberspace refers to the virtual computer world,
and more specifically, is an electronic medium
used to form a global computer network to
facilitate online communication.
5. Cyberspace
With the introduction of Internet technologies,
popular tendency was to attribute the term
cyberspace to the virtual place where online
interaction occurs.
6. Cyberspace
Cyberspace allows users to share information,
interact, swap ideas, play games, engage in
discussions or social forums, conduct business
and create intuitive media, among many other
activities
7. Cyber Society
Computer-mediated social interaction has
become increasingly prominent in the
organization of everyday life in the late
twentieth century. Electronic mail and the
creation of the Internet have made possible
such things as on-line shopping & Web-based
'chat-rooms‘.
8. The question here is does cyberspace
and all it has to offer its users affect
society and if it does affect us in a
good or bad way?
9. Positive impact of Cyberspace
1. Temporal flexibility
2. No limitation of space
3. Social multiplicity
4. Textual communication
5. Recordability
6. Speed of exchanging information
7. Entertainment
8. Equality
10. Negative impact of Cyberspace
1. Lack of sensual integration
2. Absorbing information without filtering it
3. Frustration caused by technical difficulties
4. Behavioural disinhibition
5. Cyberstalking
6. Cyberaddiction
11. Social Media
A forms of electronic communication (as
websites for social networking and
microblogging) through which users create
online communities to share information, ideas,
personal messages, and other content (as
videos)
12. Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is the term given to describe a second
generation of the World Wide Web that is
focused on the ability for people to collaborate
and share information online.
13. Web 2.0
Over time Web 2.0 has been used more as a
marketing term than a computer-science-based
term. Blogs, wikis, and Web servicesare all seen
as components of Web 2.0.