Is the Web Broken?
The saying goes “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it”, and this is the exact mentality that we have had towards the World Wide Web since its inception in 1989-1991. Since the beginning of the internet, our world has changed dramatically, with the rise of personal electronics (and more recently smartphones) and the advent of […]
Social and Internet Networks are Intertwined
So far in class, we have been analyzing social networks and internet networks in separate contexts. However, in actuality, they are closely interconnected. Consider this example: A social network tie reflected in a Facebook friendship leads someone to see a post by his/her Facebook friend linking to a news article. The person navigates to the […]