CS325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Virtual Community, Online Banking
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As an information utility: allows the easy and timely storage, dissemination and retrieval of information, the internet as a database and search engine, allows individuals to fain what was once considered expert only knowledge. Ideal for research, provision of government information and financial services: 2. As a communication utility: allows instantaneous interactive communication, e-mail, chat, peer to peer, social media, this communication can be communal, social, economic or political, shapes (cid:498)virtual community(cid:499) and (cid:498)social networks(cid:499) beyond one"s immediate, 3. As a cultural utility: human culture is made by, distributed via and viewed through the computer location in space and its operations, and the computer is increasingly understood in cultural terms, 4. Individuals also enjoy (cid:498)more control(cid:499: when they experience the convenience of on-line banking and shopping, when they organize politically online.
