Internet Culture
Net Culture has spawned a new lifestyle and affects the way we do research, read news, shop, and even how we meet new friends. Along with changing many of these daily activities, it has developed its own language. Words such as e-mail, cyberspace, virtual community, virtual chat, cyber café and cyber pubs have crept into everyday usage. Netiquette now determines our Internet behavior and manners, spam has put junk e-mail into our inboxes, and acronyms such as "LOL" can be seen in chat rooms and bulletin boards. The links included herein relate to Net culture.
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| Culture and Website Localization Targeting foreign markets is not as easy as translating a site into a different language - cultural factors can have a huge... |
Web Porn Engulfs Pacific Islands Two Pacific island countries have become global centres of the internet porn industry, according to a new report. The report... |
| Internet and Politics This article discusses a variety of ways that the Internet and technology are useful tools for political and community... |
Hacker Offers to Shut Putin's Website In the spirit of the free market computer hackers in Russia have put their services up for sale, offering to "take... |
| Cyber Culture : One Look Cyber culture is the culture that emerges from the use of computers for communication and entertainment and business. |
The Internet Addiction What’s the first thing you do when you awake? What a silly question you may think this to be! Of course brush your teeth!... |
| The influence of chat rooms on teenagers It could have been blamed on the Internet, when 12-year-old Shevaun Pennington disappeared from her home in England, to be... |
Nobel Peace Prize Winner: The Internet! As the title says, correct use of Internet has help humans achieve what many of us only dream of. Distances are covered,... |
| Internet Life : Understanding Extension "The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life"... |
Do you live in a Google world? Is your Internet experience starting to give you the feel you are living in a small virtual world? |
| Internet: Ocean of Bits and Bytes Internet is like an ocean full of bits and bytes and a place where a web designer like me likes to surf all night long.... |
Virus Writer Used Porn Site to Flood Internet FBI investigators have tracked the source of the biggest virus attack in history to a porn website in Phoenix, Arizona. |
| Cows For "Rent" On The Internet A farmer in the Swiss Alps, struggling to sell the cheese his cows produce, has recently begun offering the cows... |
Internet Fostering Drug Culture July 23: Designer steroids are now only a mouse click away, writes Duncan Mackay. |
| Virtually Addicted Thailand's government is taking steps to combat dependence on online games, as Rhianna Pratchett explains. |
The Cyber Narcissist To the narcissist, the Internet is an alluring and irresistible combination of playground and hunting grounds, the... |
| Kids and the Internet: How to Improve Your New Media Parenting Skills Do you have a member of the "Clickerati" at your house? They are otherwise known as today’s tech-savvy generation... |
Web watched The Iranian internet's days as a home of unrestricted information could be numbered, says Dan De Luce |
| Internet brings together Americans against war This Saturday hundreds of thousands of Americans will be protesting in the streets against the possibility of war in Iraq... |
New York man admits internet scam to defraud celebrities of $80m A former New York restaurant worker has pleaded guilty to stealing the identities of more than 200 of America's wealthiest... |
| Working the web a conscience online Now you need not sacrifice your ethics when you surf, writes Gideon Burrows. |
UK targets at risk of cyber terror Britain faces a growing threat of an electronic attack by terrorists linked to al-Qaida that could paralyse key public... |
| Children unaware of internet dangers Child protection experts today launched a new website that offers advice on safe use of the internet after research found... |
Web abuse: porn surfing heads list of sackable offences One in four UK companies has sacked employees for internet misuse, and porn sites were the most common reason, a survey for... |
| Internet Safety for Children: What You Need to Know According to a recent study from Knowledge Networks/Statistical Research (KN/SI), one-third of children ages 8 to 17 say... |
The threat of gambling on the internet When Ashgar tested positive for ACP, all eyes within the racing community were raised towards the internet-based betting... |
| Why Sex Still Leads the Net Porn websites are making millions. Now mainstream dot.coms are asking them for advice. Sara Gaines reports |
Call for More Government Control of the Net The president of the internet's governing body yesterday made a recommendation almost unthinkable in dot.com circles: he... |
| The Polyglottal Internet The Internet started off as a purely American phenomenon and seemed to perpetuate the fast-emerging dominance of the... |
The Seamless Internet The hype over ubiquitous (or pervasive) computing (computers everywhere) has masked a potentially more momentous... |
| The In-Credible Web People are conditioned to trust written words, not to mention images. "I read it in the paper" or "As seen... |
The Territorial Web The Net was supposed to dissolve anachronistic national borders and cultural boundaries. It was expected to vitiate... |
| The Internet in the Countries in Transition Though the countries in transition are far from being an homogeneous lot, there are a few denominators common to their... |
Tips Keep Kids and Teens Safe on the Internet Today's world requires us to be computer savvy, but for many, getting acquainted with a PC is a terrifying and frustrating... |
| You Are An Internet Addict When You refer to going to the bathroom as... |
Net Addict Reality Test Have you been spending more and more time using the... |
| Cyber Sociologists: Understanding the Sociological Aspects of the Cybernetic Age With the rapid computerization of society currently in full swing, there are a group of researchers who are studying the... |
American Pop Culture With numerous web sites dedicated to celebrities and other aspects of Americana, the Web itself is now a pop culture icon. |