Internet: A Medium or a Message? The State of the Net: An Interim Report about the Future of the Internet
Date Submitted: 12/22/2001 13:10:29
Category: / Social Sciences / Communication Studies
Length: 36 pages (10003 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Communication Studies
Length: 36 pages (10003 words)
Internet: A Medium or a Message?
The State of the Net: An Interim Report about the Future of the Internet
Who are the participants who constitute the Internet?
Users - connected to the net and interacting with it
The communications lines and the communications equipment
The intermediaries (e.g. the suppliers of on-line information or access providers).
Hardware manufacturers
Software authors and manufacturers (browsers, site development tools, specific applications, smart agents, search engines and others).
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…sector will have to pay to fend off the eager legislator and his nuisance value.
All this is bound to lead to a monopolization of hosts and servers. The important broadcast channels will diminish in number and be subjected to severe content restrictions. Sites which will not succumb to these requirements - will be deleted or neutralized. Content guidelines (euphemism for censorship) exist, even as we write, in all major content providers (CompuServe, AOL, Prodigy).
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