... books stores and libraries is not a positive one, nor is there hope for small newspaper companies. Reporters Alex Pham and David Sarno for the Los Angeles Times, created a series of writings on evolution of electronic books. Pham and Sarno describe, "If the upheaval in the music industry over the last decade is any guide, the closing of more bookstores and a decreasing demand for physical books will ... to 24 year olds and 25 to 34 year olds spent 11 minutes or less total time reading during the weekends and holidays" (qtd in NEA). When a person is reading an e-book, a mere swipe of a f...

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... faced when transferring dance or theater to film. In the case of the performing arts, the motion can be captured on the screen, giving a sense of the space and the people and objects in it. For sculpture, it seems a similar mechanism is called for to add multiple, moving views. Because of the memory requirements and technical difficulties involved in producing such views, this solution has not ... them? Fortunately, the museums of the world have apparently decided that the possible risks were much smaller than the possible gains. They hope that by providing art to a wider audience electr...

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... quick access to information. Need directions to go someplace? Use your cell phone. Need a recipe for dinner? Google it. Indeed, even the brand name, Google, has become a verb. The Internet is everywhere. It's on our desks. It's in our cars. It's in the palm of our hands. Most recently, Google Glass has put it on our heads-and Apple has put it on our wrist ... Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, believes this very thing: that if harvested, the Internet can change the world. The problem, however, is that it's often not utilized. In a Ted Talk lecture, Wesch tells the story o...

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... must do to something to aid in the defense of their files. It is literally warfare. "We need the equivalent of the Manhattan Project to help us harden our data infrastructures against attack,"" says U.S. Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick at last February's National Security in the Information Age Conference. Companies are implementing firewalls which they hope will be their equivalent of the Manhattan Project. These firewalls act as ... gatekeepers that check the passwords and identification of anyone trying to gain access to a network. However, firewalls are not entirely effective...

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... or bad for other people. For example, child pornography is one the parts of the internet that parents are afraid of. Raymond Smith refers to a cartoon that recently appeared in the newspapers. Through the doorway, a mother calls out to her teenager-who is surrounded by high-tech equipment-"I hope you're not watching sex stuff on the Internet!" To which her son replies, "Naw, I'm getting it ... on TV!" (208) In summary, there is nobody having authority to decide instead of all the people around the world. Moreover, after thousand years good ... speech has not been able to prevail over t...

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... . Consumers may take time to trust the network and accept it as a substitute for transacting business in person. Another class of concerns relates to restricting access over the Internet. Preventing distribution of pornography and other objectionable material over the Internet has already been in the news. We can expect new social hurdles over time and hope the great benefits of the Internet will continue to override these hurdles through ... new technologies and legislations. The World Wide Web is the single largest, most ubiquitous source of information in the world, and it sprang up s...

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... of the largest roles in socialization. A child's first socializer is their parents. Later come schools, churches and extra-circular activity organizations. Political Socialization of Children is no different. According to political scientists, political socialization begins during a child's preschool years. During this time, parents are not discussing Medicare or campaign finance reform with their 4 year olds, (at least, I hope not) ... but rather the content on television. This is discussed in a negative or positive manner that gears children to hold the same beliefs that their parents...

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... wish to further their education through groups such as the Rural Nursing Organization (Morgan and Reel 3). Many opportunities like this have been made available in order to encourage nurses to work in rural areas. Higher pay and better benefits have been drawing nurses out of rural communities to work in urban settings. Groups like the RNO hope that by offering grants and scholarships, more nurses will ... be encouraged to stay in rural areas. Rural nursing can not be explained as simply ... a location where one chooses to work. It is an entire lifestyle, shaped around the special need...

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... a man and a woman communicating on the Internet is to shatter to the egalitarian illusion that the Internet is merely a sharing of texts. While some women hope that the text based and faceless communication on the Internet will free their communications from sexist barriers, the introduction of a sexual comment or proposition instantaneously reasserts male/female power dynamics into their Internet conversation. As in the concrete world, sexual harassment is not ... foreplay but a power play. Though women must overcome significant social barriers to use the Internet and other on-line ......

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... many people take the time to think about the complexity of the Internet and the history behind its development. We need to take a look at the Internet before it became the "Information Super-highway" we know it as today. In the 1950's, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a "cold war", each side living in fear of a nuclear attack from the other. In 1957 the Soviet Union placed the first artificial satellite called ... pages or documents by clicking on a link. The WWW proliferated at a 341,634% annual growth rate of service traffic. In conclusion, many people use the Int...

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... we post on social media and how it is affecting our freedom of speech. There have always been pros and cons in the way that government is governing the country. Some people assert that there should be limits on the amount of materials people post online. Further, they believe that because it is nowadays easy to create websites, anybody can post according to their ... consentment. If there was an arrangement perhaps vote about censorship they would not be complaints and less negative content on the internet to censor from. The opponent argue that the government should censor the internet...

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... for an excessive amount of time increases one's risk to become addicted to other things as well (Fulps). Too much time on the internet can cause family problems, problems in school and relationship problems because the addict will become withdrawn and far less social. Some people feel more comfortable talking to their online friends than they do talking to their real friends. With ... of a button, one can enter a different world. Children and teenagers who lack social skills may feel more comfortable in the online world they have created. Lonely people are more likely to become addicted...

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... improved our children's education. As Lefkowits argues, "Together, stakeholders' contributions to school improvement strategies could grow exponentially and virally in the same way one adds friends on Facebook." Although I think was she's saying is true, I believe more firmly that the internet has been damaging to our children. I would not want to compare school improvement strategies to anything like Facebook. There ... turning to drugs, guns, hateful Web logs, or other powerful "tools," rather than digging deep within themselves or searching out others in the community for support." Th...

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... may take a few days to get to its destination, as long as it does not get lost in the mail, while an email is instantly received. Many servers also provide information stating when the email was received and when the receiver has read it. Reliability is a big issue in the business world, and as stated before, mail gets lost, as well as stolen, destroyed, misdelivered and ... even thrown away. This is not saying that email is flawless, but it is much more reliable. Also, with the ability to check the status of an email, you can personally see if it was lost in the World Wide Web, and if ...

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... children from such occurrences. Often times pornography sites will ask for a registration and a major credit card number. Forms are sent in the mail and logging onto a pornography site can be quite time consuming. Also, parents can take an active part in the censoring of their own children's online activities. They should manage their child's Internet usage as they would determine ... groups, or speakers, writers, and artists themselves"(Davis 16). The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America guarantees the right to express oneself, essentially the freedom of s...

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... people or people with busy lives who have no time to go shopping. Other services the Internet has to offer are things such as Online Banking. This is often quicker and easier for people so that they can carry out transactions over the web to anyone in the world without the hassle of writing cheques. It can also help them to keep abreast of their ... Teleworking. This is where people work from home and send their work via fax or e-mail. They can make use of the Internet to communicate with the main work place and send their work through it. The information it provides can be viewed in a ...

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... then searching through books because it will save more time. Innovative techniques and strategies for conducting traditional marketing research are appearing online in increasing numbers every day. By 2005, Internet marketing research will account for about 50 percent of all marketing research revenue in the United States because many companies will resort to Internet research to save time and money ... . The following are some growth drivers of such research: • The Internet provides more rapid access to business intelligence and thus allows for better and faster decision-making. ... m...

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... webpage. Without HTML, web pages would be nothing but a blank page. Because of this, HTML is called as one of the most important, or probably the most significant part of a webpage. Moreover, in order for the web to function fully, all computers on the web must understand everybody else. Imagine if two separate computers cannot understand each other as each of them speaks different languages ... holds. It is safe to compare web to an online library as it holds almost all the necessary information people need in their everyday lives. One example of this is daily news. Back in the old day...

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... to develop a control over the country. The NSA is the National Security Agency, responsible for overlooking the information of American citizens. The NSA can access a national data warehouse containing information about everyone who lives in the United States. This is possible for the NSA because they have their interpretation of the Patriot Act and the 4th Amendment, which was allowed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The NSA takes advantage of how ... the Patriot Act and the 4th Amendment have not caught up to the new and rapidly growing advancements of technology. This ...

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... and take too much work? Moreover, sending messages by social networks is completely free! Also, throughout the networks teenagers can also know what is happening in the world now. For instance, such as BBC news, teenagers can watch it online and acquired the information around the world. Therefore, parents can let teenagers handle it by themselves, which also won't take much work ... As was previously stated, parents should let teenagers use networks individually, because it's a way to value other's privacy, teenagers will also take their care of the responsibility, also networks play ...

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... small talk initially, but does this take away the very important element of the first impression from the relationship? In my opinion yes it does. Does this affect the way that the relationship operates in the long run as well? Often times I think about this, because of the fact that the relationship started over the Internet, does this make it more susceptible for the couple to spend more time on social media ... social media represent who they are as people or as couples. I feel as if they think they must put up 100 pictures with their significant other to show that the other person i...

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... engines wield mysterious ways of emphasizing some websites while dismissing others into oblivion (Introna and Nissenbaum, 2000). In a true democracy, there is non-compromised equality, but where search engines are concerned, "The gains, the power, and the access were consolidated in the hands of a few dominant individuals and institutions (Introna and Nissenbaum, 2000, p. 169). But politics always ... dictates all societies including the most democratic ones, and the struggle for choice and the accessibility of those choices has intensified. Searching the Internet through these helpful ...

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... because any links that were on websites were just dead ends (Taro). Ever since music has been recorded, people have shared their music with other people. In the 1980s, tapes were recorded and shared among people. It was perfectly legal to buy a tape from a record company, and then produce a copy of it and share it amongst friends. Today, ... Shawn Fanning wrote Napster was to encourage people to buy the music they like that they couldn't otherwise be made aware of without Napster. In the midst of the court battle between Napster and the RIAA lays the real issue of who the control of th...

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... -head, which featured a character who was obsessed with fire, often playing with matches and committing arson. Several young men were run over in different incidents, after imitating a scene from the movie The Program, in which a drunken athlete shows off by lying in the middle of the road.# Another big hit with children is the MTV show Jackass. There are several shows that children watch and try to copy ... the outrageous stunts performed on them. A study conducted by the National Institute on Media and the Family shows that the children who consume the most violent media were the meane...

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... have visited to know who you are and almost every thing about you? No. That is why Intel had to disable their serial number feature in the new Pentium III. With this feature, each site on the Internet that you have visited could use this number to look you up and see who you are and almost every thing about you. Before released ... complex programs to decrypt this 128-bit shell that we have and make that shell keep on going rising and rising in the numbers until not even a computer program or any hacker can access or private documents or files except us. The war on hackers is decreasing...

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