Online social networks, specifically Facebook, have provided people across the world free, accessible and interactive communication platform to present one’s self to others and get the attention of the many other people, and connect even disenterested parties into hyperreal communities. Trending now are calls for reunion, homecoming, assemblies and other gathering of sorts. Here is [...]
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Who’s not ready for the mobile world?
Posted: April 25, 2011 in Communication Theory, Education, ICTTags: educational emphasis on technology, K12 curriculum, technology haves and have nots gap
Mobile computing is minicomputing with the cyberspace at the touch of your fingers. The trend has been charted decades ago, but underdeveloped countries are lagging and the price of getting connected remains unreachable for the masses. This keeps the divide between the technological have’s and have not’s to widen. In theory, the gap is supposed [...]
Critical Reading and the Speed of False Knowledge in Scampaigns
Posted: March 14, 2011 in Academics, Analysis, Communication Theory, ICT, Media, Popular CultureTags: attention deficit, betadine, critical reading, false advocacy, false knowledge, human devolution, Internet scams, japan nuclear explosion, mobile commuinicaton scam, scampaigns, scams, text scare
In this digital world, everyone is a member of a networked community. Each one is connected and has access to information through the Internet and mobile communication. The rate of information transfer is too fast than our capacity to rationalize on the information we receive, and in most cases we react instantly without even going over [...]
