Click on the link below to visit the you tube channel for this very powerful exploration of the contemporary concerns about the dark web and its potential impact on our lives.
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THE INSTITUTIONAL HIJACKING OF SOCIAL MEDIA
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Here's a link to news about how social media is being used [exploited?] to market large commercial organisations to a wide [global] market.
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Here's a link to the idea of campaigning on the internet - some sense of its impact on democratic processes. Really useful for the MEST 3 examination Section A and Section B
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HOW THE INTERNET TARGETS CONSUMERS
Here's a useful video regarding impact of Amazon and how Jeff BEZOS [the AMAZON founder] explains they 'target' audiences by creating a store that appears to be designed 'just for you' and the power of such recommendations. Also features NETFLIX and how they have used an algorithm to exploit human behavior
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010tx2y
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Navigate to these sites and watch and make notes: Essential viewing
[1] This is a link to the clips section of the BBC series The Virtual Revolution [which won a BAFTA in 2010]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n4j0r/clips
[2] this is the link to the home page of the programme
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n4j0r
[3] Sadly, the I-Player links no longer offer the programme. However, click on the link below to get to the You Tube clip from the first episode and from there navigate your way through the rest of the sections offered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPD4Ep_J81k
Episode 1:
The wonder and walls of Wikipedia; the blogger media revolution; the price of peer-to-peer piracy... who really has power on the web? Is it the online crowd or the 'gatekeepers'? Is the web a platform for sharing or is it inequality writ large?
Episode 2:
Is the web indestructable or can censorship, cybercrime or infrastructure attack bring it down? As the web trancends the barriers of the physical world the orthodox view is that the nation state will inevitably wither as the porous web of hyperlinks conquers the globe. But some states are fighting back.
Episode 3:
Free services, limitless information, endless opportunities for the user... the web seems to defy all the laws of economics. But are we trading our privacy for a 'free' web?
Episode 4:
Are we empowered, connected and enlightened with the world's knowledge at our fingertips? Or distracted and addicted with shorter attention spans> Are our skittering brains bombarded and stupified by the 'yuck and wow' of the web? Is the web really changing us - the way we think, the way we behave, the way relate to each other? And is it for better or for worse?
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