David Gauntlett's idea about web 2.0

David Gauntlett says that:
Focus on everyday meanings produced by the diverse array of audience members
• Interest in the massive long tail of independent media projects such as those found on YouTube and many other websites, mobile devices, and other forms of DIY media
• Attempt to embrace the truly international dimensions of Media Studies – including a recognition not only of the processes of globalization, but also of the diverse perspectives on media and society being worked on around the world
• recognition that internet and digital media have fundamentally changed the ways in which we engage with all media
• media audiences seen as extremely capable interpreters of media content, with a critical eye and an understanding of contemporary media techniques, thanks in large part to the large amount of coverage of this in popular media itself

Web 2.0 examples

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

This is a large website in which uses web2.0. Anybody can make or change a page wheneve they want due to the HTML format used.

Blogger.com
Blogger, the website this is made on uses HTML format again and anybody can create a blog whenever they want and chsange and update it also.
other examples

Facebook.com
Twitter.com
Youtube.com
Wordpress.com
Tumblr.com

There are now not many websites which do not run on this, all websites created today cna be altered by the publisher or even people looking at it. This is what web2.0 was designed for.

History of the internet

Sir Tim Berners- Inventor of the WorldWideWeb or as we know it now, the internet

ARPANET- The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was one of the world's first operational Packet switcing networks, the first network to implement TCP/IP, and the progenitor of what was to become the global Internet. Packet switching, today the dominant basis for data communications worldwide, was a new concept at the time of the conception of the ARPANET. Prior to the advent of packet switching, both voice and data communications had been based on the idea of curcuit switcing.

CERN- The European Organization for Nuclear Research  known as CERN is a European research organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest partical physics laboratory. CERN's main function is to provide the Particle accelarators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research – as a result, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN following international collaborations. It is also the birthplace of the Wold Wide Web.

Boadband- The term broadband refers to the wide bandwidth characteristics of a transmission medium and its ability to transport multiple signals and traffic types simultaneously. The medium can be coax, optical fiber, twisted pair or wireless. In contrast, baseband describes a communication system in which information is transported across a single channel.

Dial-up -Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a dialed connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) via telephone lines. The user's computer or router uses an attached modem to encode and decode Internet Protocol packets and control information into and from analogue audio frequency signal.

Hypertext - HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.

Web 2.0 - Web 2.0 describes World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites. The term was coined in 1999 by Darcy DiNucci and was popularized by Tim O'Reilly at the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in late 2004. Although Web 2.0 suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specification, but rather to cumulative changes in the way Web pages are made and used.


1980-81 -Berners lee created the world wide web at his job at CERN on his computer to display HyperText and hisd computer was the first server ever on the internet.

1995 - Stanards of quality were getting higher as people were now helping do this to the net. Many notable websites were up and running now. The internet was growing now and more people were hearing of it, the TIME magaizne did a front cover on how the internet is the next best thing. Email was also now running and being used by many.

1999- A big year for the net, Broadband was tested for the first time and google, the biggest search engine was created. Also AOL messenger was also running now and was the first 'social network' of any kind, people could communicate easily with basic text over the internet.

Evidence of globalisation increasing

Some evidence to globalisation can be seen on the internet. This can be seen with the amount of users on the internet. More and more people each year a connecting to the internet.
In december 1995   0.4% of people were connected to the internet of the worlds population. This is not much but this was when the internet only started.
By february 2004 11.5% of people were now connected, a huge rise from before in the 9 year gap
In march 2013 38.8% of the words population were connected to the internet. The growth has been huge and is great evidence to provide when looking at the idea of globalisation increasing. The evidence is that the internet as a whole is growing due to the amount of people using it.International Companies need inteenet to work now and this has meant that more countries have been connecting and having good I.T infrastructure to attract these. The internet then also means that it will be avaliable to an amount of people in the surrounding area. When others hear about this, they may want it also and the government may be pressured into building the coverage. This can be seen as globalisation due to the effect it creates.


The direction of this is only going one way,up. The internet will spread faster and arrive to more people over the next 20years. Mobile phones are now used all over the world and the same will happen with the internet. It will touch all corners of the globe. To create equality the internet will spread more as it allows education and information to be seen with a few clicks of a mouse. It will make people more aware of current events and open up new opinions not only seen on the TV.