Quiz on The Virtual Revolution

• Which continent has just got broadband?

Africa

• 3. How much of the population is using the web?

• 20-25%

• 4. How many of us is that?

• 2 Billion

• Dr AleksKrotoski refers to the web as bringing about a 'levelling of power, culture and ??????'

• values

• 6. How many log on every day in the UK?

35 million

• 7. How much money is spent a week on the internet in the UK?

£1 Billion

• 8. How many of us read blogs?

• 18 million

• 9. Why is it called 'the great leveller'?

• Because it gives us all ‘equal access, equal voice, equal potential’

• It is challenging long held assumptions about ownership, values and expertise.

• 10. How do the libertarian values of the internet clash with 'human instincts?

• 10. How do the libertarian values of the internet clash with 'human instincts?

• Because we want to profit from and control information.

Wikipedia

65 million

• 14 million articles

• Perfect eg of internet:

• It empowers us

• It offers something for free

• It undercuts authority

• It enables ordinary people to shape knowldegetogether

• It fulfills the levelling dreams of the founding fathers of the internet.

• But who controls these shared sites?

• Do they need to be controlled?

• Consider gatekeeping