Focus: The Digital Revolution (Chapter 2 – pp )
The digital decade From separate –Cameras –PCs –DVDs/CDs –Newspapers To integrated –Smartphones –Tablets –Instant internet –Apps
Social impact Changing the way we live Democratization of knowledge –Wikipedia –YouTube Social media –Facebook
Downloading entertainment File-sharing websites –Pirate Bay Corporate websites –The i store Live online “feeds” –Sports, Concerts Interactive computer games –Second Life
New problems WikiLeaks –What’s secret? Circulating videos –Who’s responsible? Censorship –By whom? Bullying –How to stop it?
Personal impact Trouble avoided Fun shared Help gotten Digital footprints left Movements traced Viruses caught Always in view = Never out of sight
Beyond the personal? End of private life? The global village? “We shape our tools and then our tools shape us”