Thursday, February 26, 2009

Module 5: Information Ecologies

How might the metaphor on an ‘ecology’ impact on the way you think about, understand or use the internet?
The metaphor of an ecology impact on the way I think about is a further term for the system we look and talk about how we as a society use and adjust to computer technology to communicate, study, develop, and advance. Computers have become so embedded in the world that not to be able to use one or recognize some of the lingo associated with them disadvantages a person significantly. The sum of information and understanding you have about this technology decides your position in the society. Information ecology as expanding, constantly changing thing even they are little, primary changes can have an impact on the intact.

How are the concepts ‘information’ and communication’ understood within the framework of‘information ecology’?
Information is what its send as data in the computer; communication is when what is sent makes sense between two people.

Why don’t we talk of‘communication ecology?
In the context of information ecology, information is a larger concept than communication – we communication information, so communication is dynamic in this sense.

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