In the last few years what have been the most significant developments in how individuals use the internet?
Intro: explain how the internet has changed and how individuals use it differently, e.g. business, crowd sourcing, participatory culture, expansion of the niche market . say a sentence or 2 which shows your understanding of the question. e.g give brief example of significant development. accessible and become part of a norm.
Significant development's in the internet have impacted individual lifestyles making the internet a major part of their life, and for some their career.
Expedition: significant development because you can access illegal TV downloads so we can break away from the TV schedule and watch shows when we want to watch them, and also down load to our mp4 players and ipods so we can watch them wherever aswell as when ever.
The internet has expanded the niche market, it allows individual small film firms to be successful, before the internet niche films were very expansive and hard to get hold of, the internet and websites such as amazon have allowed them to stock niche markets, giving consumers a larger variety of films to buy. this changes induviduals lifestyles as they have access to so many more movies. This links in with Chris Anderson's longtail theory, This allows Small movie firms to make as much money as Blockbuster movies, the difference is that block busters make money right at the start e.g. first weekend and then make very little after that, small movies make their money slowly over a long period of time.
Adverts are tailored for individual computer users, Cookies record everything you are doing on the internet, this allows the websites to predict other products you may be interested in , amazon have a feature which allows you to see other products which other customers have bought at the same time as buying the product you are looking at.
How has the internet affected me: Online shopping much easier, e-commerce, social networking. ek9 forums.
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