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It seems like a very complicated move; the transformation and innovation to the internet and its progressive data bases. However, it could be simply explained by looking at the transformation our world has gone through, is going through, and try to plan and predict future transformations. The technological advances that we have gone through are sometimes taken for granted or sometimes not even noticed, but thats not the point i am trying to make. The point i am trying to make is that technological innovations drive our world and more specifically our daily lives. As you can see from the reading more and more; people are working on moving their work online. The benefit of it being online is far beyond anyone could have ever imagined. Having your work online means that everyone across the world can access it, thus people can help with their input and corrections/additions. Also it means that it will never decease, once its online, especially in multiple places it is practically impossible for it to just disappear. Of course there are down sides to it being online as well.
My group picked a few topics to focus on, one of them is the affect of the internet and its tools like twitter, Facebook, and other social websites have of presidential elections. We could show different statues from various people like the presidents themselves, vice presidents, and from educated people and see how the discussion on the posts develops in favor of the candidate. Also since most younger people use these social websites you can target them on those websites and educate them about the elections. Danny Hayes points out that the way the candidates are portrayed via the social media affects whether people vote for them. He also shows that the way things are phrased make a difference to the public. This mainly has to do with younger people that use the internet, by younger people i mean the generation that actually uses the internet. As the internet became the primary source (in the sense of the main source) people get their information from it also divides the voters since some actually do not use the internet, which is perfectly fine as long as its a credible source and you double check the information portrayed to you from the TV, Newspaper, or radio.
Thanks, Eli, for your post. The scale and accessibility of the data on the web is most certainly transforming our society. One of the ways it is doing so is in the way it alters our relationship to the past. The possibilities for engaging with information produced in the past are very different than they were a generation ago. As your group assesses the influence of social media on voting patterns, I encourage you to be as specific as possible about exactly how this is happening. Perhaps you can use data mining to detect very specific patterns around discussion of politics on social media by different age groups. Be careful with sweeping generalizations such as, “This mainly has to do with younger people that use the internet, by younger people i mean the generation that actually uses the internet.” I was recently at a family birthday party where an 88-year-old relative took a picture of the (90-year-old) birthday girl, and posted it to Facebook to document the event.
I most definitely agree that the relationship with history is changing; so is our interaction with it. I will try to stay away from generalizations, but that is a historical phenomenon that should probably be dated and recorded somewhere.