Short History
Facebook launched this year.
What is 2004?
A network spanning a single building or campus, like in a school.
What is a LAN, or local area network?
This older application was surpassed by social media sites as the internet's most commonly used application in 2009.
What is Email?
This is what the Internet is often considered because it offers both benefits and risks.
What is a double-edged sword?
What is the technology Gap?
The most popular Korean Social media.
What is KakaoTalk?
Companies that act as gateways, connecting homes and businesses to the broader internet.
What are ISPs, or Internet Service Providers?
Launched in 1995, this site is credited with jumpstarting the social networking movement
What is classmates.com?
This 1986 law guarantees the privacy of our email communications.
What is the Electronic Communications Privacy Act?
The principle requiring all ISP's to treat all web traffic equally, a concept often challenged by cable companies.
What is Network Neutrality?
This is how many adults use social media. (Hint %)
What is 81%?
A WAN is larger than a LAN because it can span these larger geographical areas.
What are cities, countries, or continents?
This platform, bought by Elon Musk in 2022, is known for pioneering "microblogging" and serves as a main choice of communication for many world leaders.
What is Twitter/X?
This term refers to the massive collection and distillation of consumer data.
What is dataveillance?
This U.S. senator argues that high-speed internet should be treated as the "new electricity" and a public utility because "the people" paid for its development.
Who is Bernie Sanders?
Babbage designed the computer this year.
What is 1885?
The internet is decentralized, meaning it is not a single entity but rather a massive one of these.
What is a "network of networks"?
This professional networking site, launched in 2003, is the least used platform shown in the US usage data, but ranks slightly higher than Threads in South Korea.
What is LinkedIn?
These small pieces of data stored on your device are an example of dataveillance.
What are cookies?
Passed in 2022, this EU act is considered the most significant media legislation in history, requiring all platforms to be transparent about their algorithms and conduct human rights impact assessments.
What is the digital services act (DSA) ?
This is where we think we are.
This describes a computer connected to the internet that specifically provides resources or services to other users.
what is a server?
Driven by people's need to belong and desire for self-presentation, these two social motives are explained by _, which helps explain why 81% of adults use at least one form of social media
What is the dual factor model?
This is the number of relatively new technological advances that may cause additional privacy problems.
What is four?
According to the presentation statistics, the percentage of African American households that lack high-speed broadband, compared to 28% of white households
What is 40%?