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The Internet standards describe a framework known as the Internet protocol suite (also called TCP/IP, based on the first two components.) This is a suite of protocols that are ordered into a set of four conceptional layers by the scope of their operation, originally documented in RFC 1122 and RFC 1123.
A new study published in the journal Technology, Mind, and Behavior analyzed data from 2.5 million people in 168 countries and found that roughly 85% of the time, people who have and use the ...
You’ve probably heard about how bad social media and other internet use is, but there is another side to that story. Experts share a more nuanced approach. Everyone says the internet is bad for ...
One of the most widely debated effects of social networking has been its influence on productivity. In many schools and workplaces, social media sites are blocked because employers believe their employees will be distracted and unfocused on the sites. It seems, at least from one study, that employers do, indeed, have reason to be concerned.
The sociology of the Internet in the stricter sense concerns the analysis of online communities (e.g. as found in newsgroups), virtual communities and virtual worlds, organizational change catalyzed through new media such as the Internet, and social change at-large in the transformation from industrial to informational society (or to ...
The Internet: It's sure been around awhile. There is now a whole generation that wonders about the purpose of a printed map and why in the world phone directories exist. But even with its ...
Internet universality is a concept and framework adopted by UNESCO in 2015 to summarize their position on the internet. The concept recognizes that "the Internet is much more than infrastructure and applications; it is a network of economic and social interactions and relationships, which has the potential to enable human rights, empower individuals and communities, and facilitate sustainable ...
Let's just get the obvious thing out of the way: It's wrong at a fundamental level that anyone should feel the need to crowdsource the money they need to attend a top-tier college. The post-high ...