Importance of Global News and how Internet Re-invented the concept

Jun 21
02:22

2013

Rinki Rawat

Rinki Rawat

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People are inherently social creatures. We build up and uphold complex social networks of friends, family and acquaintances through various means of c...

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People are inherently social creatures. We build up and uphold complex social networks of friends,Importance of Global News and how Internet Re-invented the concept Articles family and acquaintances through various means of communication. In spite of technology, human relationships will naturally continue to rely on face-to-face and physical contact, on shared experience and values, on acts of generosity and thoughtfulness, and on trust, understanding and empathy. Nevertheless, world news through internet and mobile technologies do have the potential to have significant fundamental impact on the types of relationships we maintain. Global news also impact on where we live and work, on when and how we are educated, on how we entertain ourselves and spend our leisure time, on our politics, and on how we conceive of time.In the past years since its mass adoption, internet has quickly become a reflection of our elaborate social networks. It has evolved into a powerful medium for communication and collaboration, as evidenced by the hypertext links of more than 10 billion documents authored by millions of people and organizations provided by the latest world news. It is the greatest publishing system ever known, and it keeps growing. As per earlier stats, there were at least 40.4 million websites with thousands being added, moved or removed every day. It’s a phenomenally extraordinary achievement, which has emerged without central planning and without government regulation, censor or sanction an emergent, bottom-up process. The way we get world news has gone through momentous transition. It has happened each time there is a period of significant social, economic and technological change. It is occurring now with the advent of cable followed by the Internet. The collision between communication technologies has drafted more improvement in this sector.Unlike the telegraph, the Internet is far more invasive and easily accessible by just about anyone. If history is any guide, journalism will change, although how dramatic that change will be remains uncertain. Years before the advent of the social sites for grabbing latest World News, e-mail, bulletin boards and Usenet were the popular means of communication and collaboration on the Internet. Bulletin boards and Usenet, a stockpile of millions of e-mail postings arranged into newsgroups changed radically and became more popular as forums. The browser-based graphic interface, which allowed participants to explore and contribute more readily, changed the practical nature of the Usenet idea into something more open, accessible and interesting to the masses. This inception led to the rise of websites that were specifically designed in accordance to viewers and subject to provide global news all across the world.