Media, Technology and Society

Cyber Society

OVERVIEW

• Cyberspace

• Cyber Society

• Positive impact of Cyberspace

• Negative impact of Cyberspace

• Ideology

• Media Influence

OVERVIEW

• Social Media

• Web 2.0

Cyberspace

Cyberspace refers to the virtual computer world, and more specifically, is an electronic medium

used to form a global computer network to facilitate online communication.

Cyberspace

With the introduction of Internet technologies, popular tendency was to attribute the term cyberspace to the virtual place where online

interaction occurs.

Cyberspace

Cyberspace allows users to share information, interact, swap ideas, play games, engage in

discussions or social forums, conduct business and create intuitive media, among many other

activities

Cyber Society

Computer-mediated social interaction has become increasingly prominent in the organization of everyday life in the late

twentieth century. Electronic mail and the creation of the Internet have made possible

such things as on-line shopping & Web-based 'chat-rooms‘.

The question here is does cyberspace and all it has to offer its users affect society and if it does affect us in a

good or bad way?

Positive impact of Cyberspace

1. Temporal flexibility

2. No limitation of space

3. Social multiplicity

4. Textual communication

5. Recordability

6. Speed of exchanging information

7. Entertainment

8. Equality

Negative impact of Cyberspace

1. Lack of sensual integration

2. Absorbing information without filtering it

3. Frustration caused by technical difficulties

4. Behavioural disinhibition

5. Cyberstalking

6. Cyberaddiction

Social Media

A forms of electronic communication (as websites for social networking and

microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas,

personal messages, and other content (as videos)

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is the term given to describe a second generation of the World Wide Web that is

focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online.

Web 2.0

Over time Web 2.0 has been used more as a marketing term than a computer-science-based term. Blogs, wikis, and Web servicesare all seen

as components of Web 2.0.

Media, Technology and Society

Cyber Society