Week 9 Tut Task

I wasn't able to get over to a library but I found heaps of online articles. Most of which are useless.

My Essay Topic is 1. Marc Prensky's "Emerging online life of the digital native" and David Weinberger's "A New World" chapter 1 from a book called "Small Pieces Loosely Joined".
Both present different views of contemporary internet users.
In light of your own experiences with new technologies do you think they are accurate portrayals?
Discuss why or why not with specific examples.

A Cnet News article 'Technology is Changing the Advertising Business' written in 2001 by a staff writer.
It explores how online advertising is changing the advertising business. So by now has changed it. It shows how advertising technology has made advertising online aware of situations. Depending on what you search more and what pages you visit, different advertisements more likely to interest you will appear.
It contributes to my point that both works are accurate portrayals of new emerging life online, how it is changing to keep up with online society.

"It is sometimes difficult to grasp the vastness of the Internet as it links country with country, culture with culture, buzzing metropolis with distant one-horse town".

Another article which will b useful is "The Dangers of Social Spam" by Chris Wilson, slate.com.
It is an article about online technologies such as emails and websites which use spam to send fake invites from you to others and many of the time catch people off guard. It contributes to my point that it is an experience of new emerging technologies similar to my own and of Marc Prensky and David Weinberger.

"Sites that pose as social networks are the new spammers, and they're a lot harder to sniff out than the traditional penis enlargement and fake Rolex watch crowd".

An article in The Atlantic, the July/August issue 2008 has an interesting article called "Is Google Making Me Stupid" by Nicholas Carr.
The article conveys the idea of how Google has 'reprogrammed' our brains and the ease at which it is to obtain information (he makes references to HAL) Prensky also writes about Google (before it really took off). It will help me show these to articles as accurate portrayals of contemporary internet users.

"Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after".

Haven't really found anything overly useful or different. There are heaps of articles I could use but I want ot find some more interesting things. So I'm just going to keep searching!