Internet & its effects [CR]
by Calvin Seng on Apr.10, 2009, under Media Culture
A brief introduction about Internet. The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels.
Using the Tetrad of media effects by Marshall McLuhan, I am going to explain how internet affects us.
1. What does the medium(internet) enhance?
– Internet itself is an advanced technology with almost no delay in transferring information and data amongst the users. It could update information in just a blink of time; it allows messages to be sent across spontaneously; and it is cheap until almost free.
2. What does the medium(internet) make obsolete?
– With its speed, and fees, people opt internet instead of using telephone calls, mailing, buying newspapers, and etc. Most of all, with current technology, voice over internet protocol, allows people to see each other through the internet and speak to each other spontaneously, which apparently, telephone calls would not allow people to do that. Practically, internet kills telephone.
3. What does the medium(internet) retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier?
– Telegraph, Morse code, Older version of telephone, radio, casette recorder are the media that had been obsolesced after the presence of internet.
4. What does the medium(internet) flip into when pushed to extremes?
Web 1.0 fliped into Web 2.0 which is a perceived second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing,interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.
