All answers by: James Wrona
1) Why is broadband service the key for the success of online communication? What are social effects of broadband service? How does the broadband service make digital convergence possible?
- Broadband service is the key for the success of online communication because it has allowed for much more interactivity, bandwidth, and a new acoustic world to be formed in the digital age. One of the biggest social effects of broadband service is that we can access much more information in real time based upon the transfer, creation, and consumption of information. Broadband service makes digital convergence possible by allowing users to access the World Wide Web which is the headquarters of convergence. Now, we can stream a wide variety of things at remarkably fast speeds.
2) Why does the use of World Wide Web open the door of the Internet communication to a much wider audience? In what way does the Web with graphical web browsers move the online communication to "acoustic world" discussed in the previous class?
- The World Wide Web opens the door of Internet communication to a much wider audience by providing servers which are all connected through different IP addresses, websites, and servers. What that means is that it can be accessed, essentially, by anyone, anywhere, or anytime. The Web moves the online communication to the "acoustic world" by allowing the internet to be interactive and interactivity is the key to an acoustic world.
3) How might telecommunication change if the government supporter the development of broadband Internet for everyone?
- It would change the way that information would be created, distributed, and consumed. It would also make information much more accessible to everyone regardless of whether they are rich or poor. Information would be free for anyone to get access to.
4) News organizations were changed by the telegraph, and a whole new business of news, that of the wire services, was created because of the telegraph. Discuss other industries that could benefit from rapid dissemination of information and how and why they would benefit from it.
- With a rapid dissemination of information, commercial companies would be able to make much more money and reach more people while their ad may still be relevant as opposed to being too late. If they were able to find out about what happened during the moment that it happened, they would be able to create an advertisement playing off of that event which will reach more people faster so they would wind up making more money for their company.
5) Choose one of the common methods of online communication and think of how it could be improved in terms of facilitating communication between people, ensuring quality communication, and enabling the greatest number of users to distribute information.
- Without a doubt, twitter is becoming bigger and bigger as far as being able to communicate with people both close to you and on the other side of the world with a single click. By adding a single hash tag, people who didn't even know you existed are now able to read what you have to say about a particular event. It is definitely one of the biggest methods of online communication and companies are realizing that and incorporating it by adding hash tags to commercials and television shows.
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