Why Study the Internet?

I believe that web sphere methodology could be extended to incorporate analysis of social media sites. Many people have the potential to record their lives and with technology today. Social networking sites give individuals the power to document their lives and go back, omit, and even reflect on themselves. In this day and age, not to mention privilege, blogs use for example have become the source of many individual works, writings, research, and shared media. It’s very possible, I believe to incorporate web sphere methodology, but to what avail will it bestow? Why would it be important? What would be the interest?

The changes that would need to be implemented would not be much. We identified that social networking sites are servers for individual people. They may contain information pertinent to the web maker and the web user. The hyperlink context is there. Information on most websites are updated consistently archived (I hope). Notes are created often, sending back feedback for errors or notes and suggestions. The dynamic nature, or boundaries, I would say would have to be changed just so that it fits some sort of criterion.

A comparative study between the Boston Marathon Bombing and the Post 9/11 production may be fairly similar, I believe. Both are “tragic” events. Both were bombings were acts of terrorism. People are easily ready to empathize, respond, and express themselves as they deem worthy with the use of social networking sites. However, links may get complicated with SNS’s due to the fact that they individualized responses. They aren’t necessarily easy to read through. To overcome this SNS’s could come into play by the use of individual submissions with tags, also uses of surveys and participation forms which are already used by large corporations. We as a society have already gotten quite used to the whole hashtag phenomena, and with that a category made for easy access of organization.

It’s important to study the internet and all that it may encompass, but at the same time there is a lot irrelevant information. What may be relevant to one person may not be relevant to another. The things people post sometimes don’t mean much. As a form of communication, resource, and tool, the internet is revolutionary. It’s already impacted human culture to those who have access to it, but it’s also a hinderance, I feel. People become so attached to their devices. It’s important to study the internet for those who want to study it.