CMN 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Media Richness Theory, Centrality, Social Network
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The social practice that aims at negating sequence to install ourselves in perennial simultaneity and simultaneous ubiquity. Digital networks enables us to negate sequence by processing information in a synchronous (real-time) and/or asynchronous manner. Someone liking your pic from 3 yrs ago. Information storage tech + real time communication tech = allowing negating sequence. Back in the days, no information can travel faster than the sun going around the earth. When information travel was faster than the sun"s journey, time zones were created. From one to one (telephone, personal letter), from one to many (printing press, radio, tv), from many to one (election, survey, auction), from many to many (notice board, meeting gathering) Poly-directionality allows you to choose whichever methods for your communication needs. Creation of the internet allowed connection of data silos to send info around. Creation of the world wide web (tim berners lee 1989), was more like a service layer, allowed jumping from one to another.
