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  • How the Internet Made Shopping Easier

    How the Internet Made Shopping Easier

    With the wide proliferation of the Internet, various digital trends such as e-commerce and social networking have drastically transformed the seller-buyer relationship. We are now living in an online world, which open up many possibilities in regards to business opportunities, social networking and online shopping.

     
     
  • The Origin of the Meme

    The Origin of the Meme

    Internet memetics, or ‘memes’ – commonly used and widely-recognised images, imbued with meaning through context – can often be seen representing users’ reactions and tones of voice in online debate, as well as re-enacting often-embarrassing stories in the widely-circulated Rage Comics strips.

     
     
  • How the film industry has adapted to the internet

    How the film industry has adapted to the internet

    The film industry is mutating – rapidly. Filmmaking, technical aspects, distribution and marketing have all fundamentally changed since the arrival of the internet. Now, even a full-length feature film is produced within the realm of the world wide web.

     
     
  • How the Music Industry has Adapted to the Internet

    How the Music Industry has Adapted to the Internet

    The music industry kicked off a little over a century ago in the midst of technological innovations which facilitated the capturing, storage and playback of music. Since then, the industry has been steadfast in confronting and adapting to many modern technologies.

     
     
  • Bullying in the Internet Age: Can it be Stopped?

    Bullying in the Internet Age: Can it be Stopped?

    The rise of the internet has given birth to new forms for almost all aspects – communication, business, education, arts, entertainment – of our lives. Sadly, bullying is no exception. In fact, the bullying has given an imposing and threatening form to bullying. Known as cyber bullying, it is the use of technology like the [...]

     
     
  • How the Internet helped Make Celebrities

    How the Internet helped Make Celebrities

    In recent years, both the internet culture and celebrity statuses have boomed in popularity, therefore there is bound to be a correlation in success between the two.

     
     
  • Has the Internet Killed Our Need for TV?

    Has the Internet Killed Our Need for TV?

    In the past few years we have been able to access our regular television channels via the internet by way of online “catch-up” sites. Times have radically changed from when you had to be in front of the TV at the moment your program was on. Now it’s no big deal if we’ve gone out [...]