Week Three. Topic One.
The internet can be described as "open-architecture" for one main reason. The "open-architecture" concept ws thought up by Licklider in 1962, and is primarily to do with the flow of information. The theory of "open-archietecture" is that data flows freely from everywhere in the world-there and back. Previous "old media" simply send messages one way: from the insitution through the tv or radio (and so on) to the audience. The internet provides more of a circulation of data-we provide data, send messages and so on, and the internet provides us with what we need back.
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Ok, but this reads a bit like a Wikipedia-based entry? Try to relate your discussion to the unit more. What has open architecture to do with dispersal? disembodiement? Is open architecture relevant to forums? MUDs? IRC? What about internet 'freedom'? 'Open Source'? etc.
ReplyDeleteSo, choose to blog on relevant topics that allow you to show off your unit-based thinking (as you did with the typing thing earlier, that linked personal experience with unit content explicitly & added your intelligent musings).
It's a learning curve for everyone, so it's to be expected that some posts are better than others.