Clay Shirky: End of audience blog tasks
Media Magazine reading Media Magazine 55 has an overview of technology journalist Bill Thompson’s conference presentation on ‘What has the internet ever done for me?’ It’s an excellent summary of the internet’s brief history and its impact on society. Go to our Media Magazine archive , click on MM55 and scroll to page 13 to read the article ‘What has the internet ever done for me?’ Answer the following questions: 1) Looking over the article as a whole, what are some of the positive developments due to the internet highlighted by Bill Thompson? 2) What are the negatives or dangers linked to the development of the internet? 3) What does ‘open technology’ refer to? Do you agree with the idea of ‘open technology’? 4) Bill Thompson outlines some of the challenges and questions for the future of the internet. What are they? 5) Where do you stand on the use and regulation of the internet? Should there be more control or more openness? Why? Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky’s...