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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Research suggests that using the Internet helps boost brain power for middle-aged and older people [17] (research on younger people has not been done). The study compares brain activity when the subjects were reading and when the subjects were surfing the Internet. It found that Internet surfing uses much more brain activity than reading does.
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.
For the past decade, China has consistently ranked last in the world for internet freedom due to its all-pervading online surveillance and content control system dubbed the “Great Firewall.”
Internet culture is a quasi-underground culture developed and maintained among frequent and active users of the Internet (also known as netizens) who primarily communicate with one another as members of online communities; that is, a culture whose influence is "mediated by computer screens" and information communication technology, [1]: 63 specifically the Internet.
Just 34% of survey respondents from the U.S. said they think social media is good for democracy in the country. ... residents of 21 nations saw more “Good” than “Bad.” But there was a wide ...