2) Five years from now I expect people to be receiving information in a similar way to how we receive information now. The majority of information we gather I'm assuming will still be from the internet. I think that social networks will still be a prevalent way to know about what it going on in the world. I do also believe that the information we see will be more catered to our individual preferences. I'm sure there will be new platforms to get information from, but I don’t see a huge change in the way we get our news in the near future.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Network Laws
1) The network law that I agree most with would have to be Reed’s Law. Reed’s Law claims “the utility of large networks can scale exponentially with the size of the network.” With this idea, groups can communicate with others. A simple example is group messaging; you send out one message and multiple people see it. If you look at how most people interact online it’s through social media. Reed’s Law relates to social media because of how large those networking sites can be. Take Twitter, if something is hashtagged, people are able to see everything that has the same hashtag. By hashtagging something the number of people that are able to seeing this particular message is growing rapidly. This is because of their online groups. The groups that we form online help expand the value of something by the idea of multi-way communication.
2) Five years from now I expect people to be receiving information in a similar way to how we receive information now. The majority of information we gather I'm assuming will still be from the internet. I think that social networks will still be a prevalent way to know about what it going on in the world. I do also believe that the information we see will be more catered to our individual preferences. I'm sure there will be new platforms to get information from, but I don’t see a huge change in the way we get our news in the near future.
2) Five years from now I expect people to be receiving information in a similar way to how we receive information now. The majority of information we gather I'm assuming will still be from the internet. I think that social networks will still be a prevalent way to know about what it going on in the world. I do also believe that the information we see will be more catered to our individual preferences. I'm sure there will be new platforms to get information from, but I don’t see a huge change in the way we get our news in the near future.
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I agree, being able to interact with other parties that share a common interest is a very tactical way for people to communicate. I think that the news might become catered to the person. For daily news, social websites such as Facebook and twitter have almost become the standard for searching trending stories.
ReplyDeleteI agree that five years from now the internet will be the primary way we get our information. Also, I think, like you, that social media will continue to become a bigger part of our lives and consequentially the transmission of information will be primarily through social media. People like information but they also like to hear what their friends, family, a funny strangers think about that information and social media provides that.
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