Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Keyword: Internet (Outline)

This is a work in progress and preliminary thoughts. Please leave feedback or comments or leave a comment if you would feedback on your post.

Our lives seem to be affected by the Internet in some way. This course alone, required us to use the Internet to submit our work and read the work of others. I can't think of a day that goes by that I don't check my email. The Internet has been growing quickly in the past two decades and has turned into a world of its own. People now have the opportunity to practically live their lives online, doing all shopping online (include the purchasing of food), working at home, and using online dating services.

Areas also considered for writing:
The development/evolution of the Internet/how the Internet may grow and change
The usage
The influence in our lives-a different world, the opportunity to live a nearly exclusive online life
Whether or not this is a prevalent 'generational' or 'youth' matter
What Internet phenomena are, how they develop and catch onto audiences

1 comment:

Christopher Schaberg said...

Is the Internet a second life, or a way to get to a second life? Is the internet a way to distract ourselves from 'real life', or is the internet becoming 'real life' for many people? Who cannot access the internet? For whom is the internet still a very abstract thing? Is the internet opening up old boundaries? Is the internet creating new boundaries? Should the word “Internet” be capitalized, or not? These are some questions to float as you finalize your post.