week 5: New Turn

Its week 5 into the multimedia course, and our group project has taken a new turn. The original idea was to look at the effects of a virtual community, for example, identity deception, online relationships etc. so we then decided that rather than looking at the negative aspects of the internet, (with a bit of inspiration from Nigel), why not look at the significant contribution that the internet had made to today’s society.

We had a brainstorm of a few ideas that we could look at, but our main focus was “things you can’t do face to face, but you can online”. I must say it was quite difficult coming up with few ideas, but we got their in the end. The two key ideas that we have come up with so far is how people are now marketing themselves online, and even showcasing their talents on social networking sites like my-space. We will also be looking at the globalisation of the information society and its effects, meaning that even though we are not geographically limited, yet there are parts of the world like Asia and Africa who don’t have access to ICT’S.