I found an interesting site that does research into the social impact of the internet, as they say, "The Pew Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world." The Pew has many categories that it researches including blogs, gaming, health, politics and many others. They post the most recent articles about their research and within the last year have posted some interesting articles about politics and the internet. There are articles like, " How the Shift to an Online, On-Demand World of Content Could Impact Political Discourse" which talks about the high turnout of voters in the last election and what the increased use of the internet may have done to increase this turnout. I found that most of the articles, especially, about politics, are things we have already discussed in class but this site seem particularly good at having a good group of infomation that is informative yet engaging.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
Here is an interesting article about the future of the internet: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2008/The-Future-of-the-Internet-III.aspx
ReplyDeleteI think they bring up some interesting arguments, such as predicting there will still be a battle over intellectual property and copyright laws.