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    All spheres of media are being represented on the world wide web. Some of the relations are being mirrored from those present in real life, but the internet was never the same. As with real life, not everyone on the internet is equal and there are numerous differences between the users of this medium of mass communication. Even though the inequalities are still present on the internet, they are subtler than those existing within the offline world. Almost everyone has access, but how we benefit from

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    The World Wide Web Communication--it is a fundamental part of our everyday lives. It characterizes who we are, what we do, and how we relate to others in society. It is a very powerful tool that holds many different uses for our basic needs and survival. At a very simplistic level, it is key in attaining our very basic needs for survival. In that respect, it is key in achieving all needs in Maslows hierarchy. Its uses and possibilities endless. Over time, the discoveries that have been

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    The father of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, having recognized that the internet contains millions of items and each item needed to be uniquely identified, in1994, developed and implemented the idea for addressing each resource on the internet. He called these addresses as Uniform Resource Identifier which were later renamed as Uniform Resource Locator. URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. It is the global address of resources and files on the World Wide Web. Just like a postal

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    Decline of the World Wide Web Hossein Derakhshan article, “A Blogfather 's Lament for the Web” spoke about his concerns of the decline of the web. Writing this article, he directed his concerns for Facebook users in 2014. The article appeared to be about his past journaling experience in Iran which lead him to discover blogging, while keeping connected with his readers from his daily column within the Iranian paper. However, when Derakhshan went to prison because of his internet activities and

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    has long term effects on our brain that actually help us. Of course, there are cons about the internet, but the bad parts are controllable. The internet changes the way we think for the better, and connects us to people all around the world. The internet and the world

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    The history of the World Wide Web was created on August 6th, 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee. (Bryant, 2012). Due to the creation of the World Wide Web, many things have changed. Websites have made everything either easier or more complicated. But, we will talk about the easier this world has gotten. Some websites that have made life easier are Facebook, Strayer University, Amazon, EBay, Google, Gmail, Yahoo, PayPal, Walmart, Schwan’s, Myspace, Pogo, Trip Advisor, and Home Chef. These are just to name a

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    Politics on the World Wide Web With the development of the world wide web, substantial opportunity has arisen for people around the world, as easy and free access to an immediate audience of people is prevalent in the cyberspace. For example, most people in modern society are not only attached to, but also dependent on the internet for a number of reasons. These reasons may include things such as a resource for news or simply a way to stay connected with friends through social media. People who

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    much the direct result of the invention’s content or it’s use, as they are the outcomes of effects that are intrinsic within the technology itself. Although McLuhan published this work in 1964, almost thirty years before the invention of the World Wide Web, this adage still holds true for the Internet today. Technologies, such as the Internet, should not be viewed, using the instrumentalist perspective, as inherently neutral tools that are valuable only for their ends, intended purposes, or

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    first search engine which became popular in the world (Fahad Sultan, 2013). Google was created to make it easy for users to find information on the web easier. Internet services have existed since computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1990. Quite a few search engines have been providing their services but no one has become as popular or recognizable as Google (Fahad Sultan, 2013). Google has changed the way the users surf the web, view and share information. This has made them

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    Introduction: The expansion of the World Wide Web and increased access to devices which allows internet access has resulted in the creation in a new form of retail transactions; Online shopping. (Shim, Quereshi and Siegel 2000) define Web Shopping as the process consumers go through to purchase products over the internet. (Alba et al 1997) defines it from a consumer view point as, web shopping allows web shoppers to search and compare various products or services over the internet that are located

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