... vice-president pitted against the possibility of an African-American president - both potential history-making moments. Voting turnouts broke some records, and with the election of Senator Barack Obama, the United States allowed a new era of American politics to be ushered in. And the way it all happened was revolutionary, too. The Internet has, it seems, forever changed the way Americans experience their ... the presidential race of 2008, Americans got political online. The Internet gave voters a new, direct link to their candidates. News giant CNN and pop-culture portal YouTube collab...

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... % of American adults use either social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter and a new survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project finds that 66% of those social media users "or 39% of all American adults "have done at least one of eight civic or political activities with social media. The use of social media is becoming a feature of ... political and civic engagement for many Americans. Some 60% of American adults use either social networking sites like ... Facebook or Twitter and a new survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project fi...

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... while having a universal theme, is still open to interpretation. In spite of the fact that each person reserves his or her own value system with respect to ethical behavior there still remains a significant void between what some consider to be morally acceptable and what others believe to be wrong. All people have built-in ethical responses. Certain actions are identified as wrong, others ... human technological power was mostly so limited that only in exceptional circumstances did it have a major impact on nature. But with the rise of modern techno-scientific civilization, not only does...

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... be monitored (Nadarajah 2002. Sv "E-zine"). Question 1b: Artificial intelligence: What role does the development of artificial intelligence play in the current production of culture? Artificial intelligence is "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but Artificial ... reality one would experience today, yet it does elude to the uncanny powers computer software may generate in the future (Warner 2002. Sv "Computable culture"). This exaggerat...

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... us the greater opportunity to communicate to each other through e-mail and chat room. The groups of internet users and people who love to chat in online chat room have their own cyberspace language, which is now entering the linguistic mainstream. Then we have got 2 neologisms: "emoticons" and "netcronyms". Emoticon is a combination of "emotion" and "icon". An "emoticon" is an icon that expresses emotions, ... or facial expressions and bodily gestures in written communication in chat room or ... help their online partners understand what they want to say, but they also avoid possible ...

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... nexus for these new technologies. According to a report by Singapore Department of Statistic (Ng & Yap 1999), more and more Singaporean families are plugged into an ever-expanding array of information and communication technologies. The use of information and communication technologies has become a central activity at home in Singapore. It is the place where entertainment, schoolwork, workplace ... phones, fax machines, personal digital assistants (PDAs), personal computers and the Internet, join with traditional media technologies such as radio, television, videocassette recorders, digi...

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... , perform acts of commerce, exchange knowledge, share emotional support, make plans, brainstorm, gossip, feud, fall in love, find friends and loose them, play games and metagames, flirt, create a little high art and a lot of idle talk. We do everything people do when they get together, but we do it with words on computer screens, leaving our bodies behind." Rheingold 1999 (Bell, 2003, pg 98) I"m sure ... into older, centralized ways of looking at things. (Bell, 2003) However when putting the theory into practice she came to understand and experiment with the "decentred' self. She also wr...

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... invention of the last century. It makes global communication possible more than any other device in history. Anyone with a computer and a modem can be a publisher or have access to vast quantities of information from around the world. The Internet was used merely by scientists for academic purposes in the early 1980s, ... , I strongly believe that we need to avoid children from accessing the online pornography. Children growing up in our already overly sexualized culture are being exposed to sexually explicit material through the Internet. They are being subjected to sexual material and...

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... the internet are doing it for different reasons. They really like the ability to quickly and inexpensively keep up with friends and family by using e-mail, or instant messenger while others love the large amounts of information they can get on a moment's notice like watching watch ... movies, or listening to music or even the excitement of playing a web based games like World of Warcraft. However, it is possible that many internet users tend to share several things in common as they search and ... Firewall1, anti-malware protection, or even an anti-virus programs. There are several areas...

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... would probably not be talked about. Technology creates new job opportunities, innovations, and networking ventures that were not possible before the internet. Technology allows individuals to connect globally. The Internet has changed how we communicate with each other and has connected the United States with other nations like never before. It has had a significant political role in ... facilitating the communication between groups, assisting the activities of social movements, and the mobilization of political parties, civil society groups and voters. The Internet has offered something...

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... is just as important, and especially important in a corporate "culture", where many rules and bureaucratic procedures make work relationships difficult. Story-telling is important to social relationships, because in hearing a person's stories, we learn to understand an individual's experiences and finally learn to understand him or her. Storytelling, more importantly, has to power to dispel prejudices and inconsistencies with events and people in history. Therefore ... . They break through our prejudices. When we know someone's story, we've encountered what's real and discarded the flimsy...

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... 's credit standing. All these phenomena show that world has already entered a new age 'the age of Visual Culture. The advent of the visual culture age accelerates the development of the society and economic, and the advancement of of the society and economic still advance visual culture. They are related with each other closely. 3. The using of Visual Identity System on Internet 3.1. The definition of Internet Visual Identity ... is a new position of corporate propagandizing and competing. A uniform Internet Visual Identity System should impress the corporate visualization and improve th...

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... percentage of 48.84%. 20.47% are at the age of 14 or younger, 22.79% are 25-34, 4.65% are between 35 and 44, and 3.26% are 44 or older. The standard deviation of these results is .93 with a skewness of .89. From the results of the respondents, 32.09% use Facebook as their primary choice of social media. 18.14% of ... % uses Myspace. The standard deviation from this result is 1.33 with a skewness of .12. The amount of time the respondents logged in daily was primarily more than once per day at 39.07%. Once a day is 20.47%, few times a week is 18.60%, few times a month is 10.70%, and those...

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... has intensely indistinct implications for the future of democracy. Without a doubt, the numbers of people participating in this electronic communication are increasing, as are the opportunities for political communication and sharing of information. Despite this, typical users are not representative of the true social make up. There is the problem of the societal divide, lack of political motivation ... society may be seen as a "sounding board" for the articulation of political issues a government might address, Mark Poster points out that "rational arguments rarely prevail on the "net",...

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... ) Congress should employ a new sales tax policy to interact with electronic commerce. This matter has put Congress at odds with the states on the subject of federalism and has recently become one of the most talked-about issues in partisan politics. Those that support continuing the exemption from taxing e-commerce and mail order shipments usually tend to be conservative. These individuals claim ... that trying to implement traditional tax rules would negatively benefit this new division of the economy and that ... better argument, however, I think that we should continue the exemption...

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... the viewing of kid's manic appreciation for this new genre. Parents didn't know how to react when their children adopted new clothing styles and slang and hung posters of Chuck Berry on their walls. This new crop of performers, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, ... it would cause racial mixing and "mongrelize- America. There are so many levels, genres, and versions of rock that this mixing, while certainly not a bad thing, was inevitable. Part "high culture- (Pink Floyd, Genesis), part "folk culture- (Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan), rock could appeal to all and open t...

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... the love of making and listening to music. Music has the ability to enhance our emotions and add interest to our lives, so it is little wonder that we are willing to pay to listen to our favourite songs and that the music industry is one of the largest entertainment industries. In contrast, the Internet is a developing tool and resource we have only been familiar with ... five or so years, it is already recognised as one of the primary reasons for people to get online The distribution of music on the Internet has become extremely simple, and with the advances in audio formats together w...

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... good. I feel that children who spend time on the computer, are replacing what could be great time used for school work with surfing and gaming. "Recent research, including a University of Munich study of 174,000 students in thirty-one countries, indicates that students ... and social websites have actually been linked to loneliness and disconnectedness among a large number of people. "My sister, who has dealt with the frustration of trying to talk to me while I'm half listening, half computing for her entire life, loves the way I talk to her now. She says I'm less detached emotionally, ...

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... violent protests erupted the world and Muslims throughout the Middle East and Africa rioted. "They burned embassies and churches and fight with police, at least 200 died and many more were injured" (New York Time, 2009). Issues were raised my European Muslims on how do we draw the line between free expression and respect for religion? And can Western democracies accommodate the growing culture and religious differences?. In a ... stay active for a long time; they have to end at some point. The reason is because mentioning and operating these websites can sometime be expensive. The creato...

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... . Some of the same problems museums have always faced - need for clarification, isolation of art pieces, displacement from culture and time, and the loss of meaning as a result - are more evident in the new media. Despite these challenges and limitations, museums add value to their collections and their information delivery by reaching out to new audiences in new ways. As technological possibilities expand, so will ... useless), but this metaphor may be better than simple topical groupings, especially when the museum actually exists in a similar building, and so the visitor's familiarity ...

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... an accounting firm in San Rafael, California, found that the typical personal computer user spends forty-three percent of his or her time on the machine "futzing' with the computer (the downtime spent loading or changing software, organizing files and tweaking). The other culprit in the productivity paradox is communication overload (p. 19). A Yankee Group survey of one hundred Fortune ... create an environment wherein each faculty member delivers his/her own idiosyncratic set of competencies based on the interest and teaching assignment? Considering the agreement could be reached on who...

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... of experiencing the internet as it was intended to be. There are many organizations that want to stop and restrict many usages that the internet provides the world with. Some of these organizations are controlled by the government which implies that our very own government wants to ... restrict our usage of the internet. Is it right for the own government wanting to limit something like the internet from its citizens. For many the internet is a form of privacy they have, and ... understanding of it. '"But opponents of the proposed bills - including Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales ...

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... teaching, the bulk of education is still done in the traditional way: in classroom settings, with a teacher that physically interacts with his or her students. As we see in schools nowadays, although resources and homework can be given through online portals or platforms, lectures and lessons are still a mandatory and significant part of education. Thus, the Internet has not revolutionized education much as it is merely ... be able to access the information that would otherwise only be available in school from anywhere and at any time they like. By doing so, anybody can learn according ...

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... quot;forces and bodies" all of which is influencing the individuals. It is notably that this surveillance which forms the basis of power that draws the individual to believe that the world he or she lives in is one that is continually watching over him or her. This ... constant friction of mental forces shapes who the individual becomes within the society. He or she accepts how the system works with no question. According to the passage, "Our society is not one ... can conclude that the use of the word "protocol" feels forced throughout his writing. It appears that Galloway wanted to gr...

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ecommerce companies and stock valuations eCommerce Companies and Stock Valuations 1. Introduction A hot topic in today's business culture is eCommerce. Experts argue about whether eCommerce will change business, whether or not it is a fad, and what viable strategies there are in a business world that is changing at the speed of idea generation. One thing that nobody argues about is the fact ... that eCommerce oriented companies have stock prices and market capitalizations that are enormous ... not bounded by geographical parameters associated with traditional business models such as brick and...

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