Digital Communication 2001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Geolocation, Utah Data Center, Wearable Computer
25 Jan 2018
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Contact: dr. carolyn guertin, cguerti2@uwo. ca, office: fnb 4122, text/ call: 647 771 1335. The internet, the world wide web and other forms of networked communication were born of networked communication were born of the desire to share and make information free for everyone. In other words, digital communication was conceived as a form of freedom. "the (cid:374)etwork society (cid:894) (cid:895) is (cid:373)ake up of (cid:374)etworks of productio(cid:374), power and experience, which construct a culture of vitality in the global flows that transcend time and space" Surveillance: data which is stored somehow, accumulated from us, may or may not be given voluntarily. Internet: text based and code written, backbone that web runs on. Digital communications: what is twitter, microblogging software (140 characters at a time, 974 mio. registered users, 288 million active users per month, 347 000 tweets sent per minute, 33 languages supported, closely monitored by cia.
