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Christian Mayer

Social Media Has Changed The Way We Live | amotherworld - 0 views

  • Social media has changed the way we connect with people and get information.  Just look back at technology and the pattern of tech evolution. Typewriters replaced by computers, telephones by cell phones, libraries by the internet… the list goes on and on. The internet provides information instantaneously.  Not only that it’s immediate, that information is available 24 hours a day and on many mobile platforms too. Now with Social Media such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, blogs, mobile apps – anywhere you go, information can come with you.
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    Social media has changed the way we connect with people and get information.  Just look back at technology and the pattern of tech evolution. Typewriters replaced by computers, telephones by cell phones, libraries by the internet… the list goes on and on. The internet provides information instantaneously.  Not only that it's immediate, that information is available 24 hours a day and on many mobile platforms too. Now with Social Media such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, blogs, mobile apps - anywhere you go, information can come with you.
skye supakul

On The Net - The Changing Information Cycle - 0 views

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      tells us how information is broken down
  • On the Internet, the traditional information cycle is broken in a variety of ways. News may be reported, analyzed, debated, corrected, and reinterpreted in a matter of hours. Old stories from decades ago may be re-examined. Factual information can be evaluated, expanded upon, and expounded on by a wide variety of readers.
skye supakul

How the internet is changing us: CDF report looks back, ahead | Knight Digital Media Ce... - 0 views

  • CDF found that U.S. internet users are becoming less credulous. As of June 2011, “only 40% of users said that most or all of the information on the internet is reliable—a decline from 55% in 2000.” Also, currently 60% of U.S. internet users say that “about half or less of information online is reliable”—up from 45% in 2000. About 15% currently think that “only a small portion or none of online information is reliable.” But mainstream media sites tend to attract more trust: 73-80% said most or all of the information these sites post is “generally reliable and accurate.”
  • 2011 study found that internet users give high marks to newspapers for many characteristics, among them the quality of news content, local and national coverage, and providing trustworthy information. And 63% of internet users report they would miss the print edition of their newspaper if it was no longer available—up from 56% in 2007. However, internet users also report spending less than two hours a week reading print newspapers—an amount that has declined steadily since 2005
Shannon Sepela

Information of the Changing Shape of Information - 0 views

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    The changing shape of information.
Shannon Sepela

Changing Shape of Information - 0 views

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    The Changing Shape of Information
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    The changing shape of information.
Shannon Sepela

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    The changing shape of information.
Christian Mayer

Information technology has changed the lives of immigrants « Online Education... - 0 views

  • The boom in the information technology sector has had far-reaching effects especially on the immigrant population.  It has almost changed the way Canada lives, works and learns.  The new ‘digital literacy wave’ has caught on and that has put demands on most of us and more so the immigrant worker in Canada.  Hence the language instruction is changing in Canada in response to the immigrant settlement.  There are changes in other fields as well but the change is noticeable in the field of information technology as newcomers have learnt French or English and have adapted to the life in Canada.
Christian Mayer

Ron Gutman: How Technology Has Changed The Way We Access Health - 0 views

  • When I grew up, the primary sources of health information for most of us were our physicians or our friends and family. But over the past decade the resources we use and rely on for health information, and how we use it, have radically changed. With the ubiquitous availability of the Internet, we're now taking on the role of gathering and assessing this information ourselves, often before we visit or return to our doctors. To find health information, most of us turn to search engines or health sites -- whether to answer questions about a new physical discomfort, a known ailment or about a health matter facing a child or other person we care.
Shannon Sepela

Information of the Changing of Shapes - 0 views

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    The changing shape of information.
skye supakul

The impact of Information Technology on Governments | InterParty.org - 0 views

  • Governments, on the other hand, usually lag behind and are forced to catch up.
  • But this leaves governments vulnerable in many ways and thus, it can be said that generally speaking, information technology has a negative impact on governments.
  • governments are not leaders in technology
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  • Everyone's business and personal activities are available online. And while this trend is affecting the ability of individuals to obtain jobs or entry into excellent schools, it is also adversely affecting the government. Conversations, actions, decisions and motives are being played out on the internet in emails, social networking sites, videos and personal blogs. Government officials and employees can no longer hide in a shroud of secrecy
  • Enriching the lives of the poor in developing nations can be achieved through the use of modern day technologies such as medical treatment databases, cell phones to improve livelihoods, and computers to enable ability the citizens to compete for online jobs in the global market. Governments can become closer to its people through the use of information technology and communications, thereby increasing efficiency and helping to make their lives better.
skye supakul

Health 2.0: How Interactive Websites are Changing the Healthcare Industry | Medical Pra... - 0 views

  • These days, having a website is no longer a novelty; it’s an absolute necessity for any physician concerned with staying in front of local competition, acquiring new patients and increasing patient satisfaction.  Internet access is now commonplace for the public of every age. Today the number one place people are turning to find medical resources and health care providers is the Internet, and Health care websites are the second most common sites opened on the Internet. Given this new trend in medical information-retrieval, web-based communication has become increasingly important for creating a more effective patient experience.
  • To satisfy the needs of your patient-base and streamline office workload, you need a fully-functional, interactive website that places the patient in the driver’s seat of their own medical decisions; a patient portal that enables the doctor and patient to interact in an efficient, effective and confidential fashion.
  • Health 2.0 suggests that patient-doctor interaction can take place beyond the walls of an office with the help of advanced, web-based communication technology.
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  • As a result of this new interactive technology, physicians are able to provide better resources to patients, enhance communication with patients, create a unique service that differentiates their practice from the competition, and finally, to streamline office operations and improve practice productivity.
  • An Interactive website helps maintain a seamless communication channel between patients and their providers, while improving  overall efficiency of the delivery of care a practice can provide.  Ultimately, the patient receives better care and an overall improved experience as they gain control over their health information.  Subsequently, workload for the office is reduced with a large amount of the communication and information-sharing happening over the Web and not taking valuable time in the reception area or in the examination room.
Christian Mayer

How Science Has Changed in the Information Age - voiceofsandiego.org: The Henrietta Lac... - 0 views

  • We are living in the Information Age. A world where the internet, computers and smartphones are an essential part of our everyday lives, allowing us to immediately access and share information worldwide. Digital technologies have changed every aspect of our lives; from the way we work and learn to the way we play and socialize.
Shannon Sepela

Video of the Changing Shape of Information - 0 views

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    The changing shape of information.
Shannon Sepela

Entertainment Changing of Information - 0 views

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Shannon Sepela

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skye supakul

Information about the Internet - history, development, facts, role - 0 views

  • The dynamic, user-friendly interface of the Internet as we know it today, is breathed life into by a multi-layer global network system that connects hundreds of millions of computers. This large system is comprised of multiple local and global networks serving private, public, business, academic and government purposes, which allows for the exchange of data between more than a hundred Internet-linked countries worldwide. This makes the Internet an enormous carrier of various information resources and services, such as text and multi-media data, email, online chat, VoIP, file transfer and file sharing, ecommerce, online gaming, etc.
  • The explosive growth of the Internet over the last decade is attributed to two basic reasons - the non-centralized management of its development and the non-proprietary nature of its main functional units - the Internet protocols. This 'freedom' of the Internet determines its balanced organic growth and prevents it from suffering the consequences of monopoly.
skye supakul

How Web 2.0 is changing medicine | BMJ - 0 views

  • What seems clear is that Web 2.0 brings people together in a more dynamic, interactive space.
  • The new environment features a highly connected digital network of practitioners (medical or otherwise), where knowledge exchange is not limited or controlled by private interests.
  • What is obvious is that doctors are seeking new methods of information discovery because of the limitations of search engines.
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  • RSS may be a useful way to fight information overload. RSS feeds help to organise new web content sent to you in real time by the best medical blogs, evidence based sites like the Cochrane Library, and newly published video and audio from major medical journals.
  • Web 2.0 ultimately returns to the idea of using software to create optimal knowledge building opportunities for doctors
  • In closing, let me say that Web 2.0's push for openness has resulted in the expectation of equal amounts of transparency and openness in medical publishing.
Christian Mayer

The internet: is it changing the way we think? | Technology | The Observer - 0 views

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      Information about how the way we obtain information has changed
  • "Over the past few years," Carr wrote, "I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That's rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
  • Every 50 years or so, American magazine the Atlantic lobs an intellectual grenade into our culture. In the summer of 1945, for example, it published an essay by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineer Vannevar Bush entitled "As We May Think". It turned out to be the blueprint for what eventually emerged as the world wide web. Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?".
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  • uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's c
  • "Over the past few years," Carr wrote, "I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That's rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
Christian Mayer

HowStuffWorks "How has technology changed the way we conduct business?" - 0 views

  • Technology affects almost every aspect of our lives. Just look around you and you'll see how wired we are. Thanks to the Internet, virtually anything you desire can be delivered to your door in a matter of days. Personal information is more accessible over the Internet as well -- you can look up everything from a long-lost cousin to the registered sex offenders in your neighborhood. You can even trade stocks or file taxes online. Parents don't need to lose sleep waiting for their teenage daughter to come home -- they can just call her cell phone, or send an unobtrusive text, to check up.
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