Group One and Two 10/22/2015

    Today's first group presented for their book panel and brought some interesting ideas about their book. For example, Journalism as a peer network this is having the concerns from information management. How are you supposed to get the right information to the right person at the right time. Some other useful networking is 311 hot line in New York, this was a hotline for New Yorkers to call and report any broken street lights in the city or other similar things. Conscious Capitalism, this is when peer-progressive values are applied to corporate structures. The Federal Government tried to apply a top-down structure to the internet with the stop online privacy act. The two main legend starts are the government and Mass Media outlets able to control the internet but as for Orwellian this was a nightmare. This is the idea that peer-progressive ideas in life are similar to networking. At the end of the presentation there was three questing that we had to discuss in a group. This little discussion that took place after their presentation helped me a little more with connecting everything else in their presentation. Peer-networking is something that could be very helpful and useful to humans as it also helps us get connected with other people if you are trying to get your name out there.   

Second group presenting, the digital divide. The digital divide simply defines the haves or have not's. This has some effect on us, the book addressees the digital divide and how each year being digitally connected becomes different in their own way. A very good example of this segregation in the classrooms. Because in today's society the latest trend is what keeps everyone from being cool if you have the coolest new technology you are considered normal as to everyone around. But if you are growing up in a country where having these types of technologies are a little harder to get a hold of makes it harder for some students’ academic performance. When these linguistics behaviors from home clash with the ones expected of students at school, students tend to do worse academically. One of the biggest impact is racial and cultural differences, this can cause a rift in literariness.