Reviews for What is the Impact of Cyberlife?

The average rating for What is the Impact of Cyberlife? based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-02-19 00:00:00 Jason SANDERS This is a book that covers a lot of territory. At first it seems to focus on the Internet, but late in the book it talks about television. There are three sections, twenty-two articles. The first section deals with Democracy and Cyberspace, the next with Global Developments and the last and least interesting, because most obvious deals with news and information in the digital age. In the first section, many people raise the issue of whether the digital age will be more or less democratic. In many ways, it seems less democratic. Those who challenge the democracy of the Internet are more convincing. They make the point that the nature of computers focuses on the emotional rather than on the reasoned. Plebiscites do not allow for deliberation, but given how congress is currently functioning, representative government doesn't seem to be doing too well. In the global section, there is an article on Cuba and the difficulties it has with the Internet, but more with the American blockade. In the section on South Africa, it does seem that the ANC has not sufficiently solved the problem of the rural workers and that the racist whites still own more land than they should. A television program explored this showing a variety of perspectives. There was also an article that made the point that cyberspace duplicated the imperialism of the west during its colonial period. One of the problems is access. Poor people and minority people don't have the same access to the technology. The articles on the medium itself focused on how quickly news is transferred both on the Internet and on w4 hour broadcasts. The web also demystifies the expert. There was an article that talked about art in museums being kept prisoner by curators and that through scanning, art was now available on the web. The author made the point that the copyright originally protected not the artist, but the publisher. Music can be downloaded and is therefore more accessible. Ownership has changed. There was also an article that talked about high, medium and low frequency writing and claimed that buildings were a form of communication, albeit rather low. This section dealt more with television than some of the other sections did. The book was interesting but I shouldn't have tried to read it in such a short time. I am sure taken a little more slowly and savored would have been much more beneficial.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-08 00:00:00 John Croston a must read book for communications students