Network Culture is a cultural interaction between people over the internet.
Communicarion between people through such as Facebook, MSN Messenger, Skype, internet forums, online blogs, webcam, email, etc.
Internet gaming online around the world between people has changed us. Online gaming is also part of our network culture. Rather than us playing with real people in real life such as sports activities, card games, board games, etc. We now play with video games with each other instead.
Mobile text messaging, fax sending, telephone communication. Online shopping by ordering goods online without having to go to the shop and buy the stuff directly.
Today the network not only connects the world, it reconfigures our relationship to it.
Our lives are increasingly marked by the influence of social and cyber spaces online.
As Bill Gates once said, "I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
I agree with Bill Gates. Certainly that has caused a revolution in our network culture. I think our network culture has expanded immensely due to our personal computers that we have now.
Blogspots, Amazon, Ebay, Twitter and Facebook have all become spaces that people inhabit and take up social positions.
As a whole the internet has changed us a lot. We now find information on the internet easily by searching through Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Online Dictionary, etc search engines.
References: http://varnelis.net/network_culture/introduction [accessed 20/11/10]
http://www.tmp-m.org/cms/business-and-computers-department/29/content.aspx [accessed 22/11/10]
