Questions for the article “Historical Development”

1.     Why is broadband service the key for the success of online communication? What are the social effects of broadband service? How does the broadband service make digital convergence possible?

Broadband service is the key for the success of online communication because it has brought about the new acoustic world in the digital age. One of the biggest social effects of broadband service is that we can access more information in real time based upon the creation, transfer, and consumption of information. Broadband service makes digital convergence possible by allowing users to access the World Wide Web – making for quicker Internet and streaming.

2.     Why does the use of World Wide Web open the door of the Internet communication to a much wider audience? In what way does the Web with graphical web browsers move the online communication to “acoustic world” discussed in the pervious class?

The World Wide Web opens the door of the Internet to a larger audience by providing different web servers to anyone and everyone who wishes to access the Internet. The Web moves the online communication to the "acoustic world" by allowing the Internet to be interactive and interactivity is the key to an acoustic world.

3.     How might telecommunication change if the government supported the development of broadband Internet for everyone?

Telecommunication supported by the government could change the way that information would be created, distributed, and consumed. Information would be much more readily available for any person who wanted to make use of it regardless on money status.

4.     News organizations were changed by the telegraph, and a whole new business of news, that of the wire services, was created because of the telegraph. Discuss other industries that could benefit from rapid dissemination of information and how and why they would benefit from it.

Commercial companies would be able to make a lot more money and reach more people while their ad may still be relevant as opposed to being too late. If commercial companies could find out the moment something happened, they could create an advertisement playing off of said event, which would reach more people at a more rapid pace, which would wind up making more money for their company.

5.     Choose one of the common methods of online communication and think of how it could be improved in terms of facilitating communication between people, ensuring quality communication, and enabling the greatest number of users to distribute information.

Twitter is currently one of the fastest growing websites in the world. You can communicate with not only those close to you, but others like celebrities of even presidents. Twitter is also big form of newscasts. It was revealed that on multiple occasions, Twitter was the first to receive news stories – before important officials even knew. In 2011, one twitter user unknowingly live-tweeted the entire raid of Osama Bin Laden’s compound.