Lecture 5 - Online Culture

 

 

'Online Culture IS The Culture'

Online culture will be explained within this blog. These facts were accessed from: http://www.slideshare.net/timparsons/online-culture-is-the-culture-1915017 There are over 1 Billion internet users worldwide, there are 6 million Australians on Facebook, 300 million Chinese internet users, Over 1.5 Billion Iphone apps downloaded since July 2008, 100% Mobile penetration in Australia. Online Culture is about people today.

Online Culture is rich in human behaviours,  Online Culture is hungry for authenticity, Online Culture is great at getting the truth, Online Culture is rife with innovation, Online Culture is about reinventing the economy, Online Culture is principally a form of open society, Online Culture is highly disruptive, Online Culture is the mainstream!

Blurring of Online and Offline Media has created challenges. Juhasz said "it’s hard to distinguish between what she called “lived reality” (real life) and “the online experience” (digital life). "The worlds have meshed together to create the “blended reality,” where people are always being touched by media information and it’s infecting or augmenting their lived realities", Juhasz said.
Read more at http://national.deseretnews.com/article/770/Blurred-lines-How-peoples-lives-have-become-an-online-and-offline-experience.html#wvbTw3MzOpUzpE9s.99

References:

http://national.deseretnews.com/article/770/blurred-lines-how-peoples-lives-have-become-an-online-and-offline-experience.html

http://www.slideshare.net/timparsons/online-culture-is-the-culture-1915017