Luckily university is all about learning experiences (surprise!), so here's the most brief summary of my learning experience that I could conceptualise.
- Web 1.0 = read only content with a focus on companies and advertising.
- Web 2.0 = the social web, user generator, shared content allowing for consuming and contributing/reading and writing.
- Web 3.0 = the semantic web - personalised, intelligent searches, behavioural advertising, focus on the individual and user behaviour.
Whilst rediscovering the web and recording my own ten days of media use for our assignment i began to think of the kinds of things the internet can expose us to (the good and the... not so good). One thing led to another and I ended up in the dark, weird part of youtube again. Don't judge me, we've all been there!
If my assignment taught me one thing it's that I can sit and watch almost anything for hours on end, and for what cause? Take for instance vampires, amateur cooks, obese Australians and the everyday lives of five people living in New York, all concepts behind popular films and TV series and all significantly useless to my wellbeing. I managed to watch 24 hours worth of this in 10 days and I feel no smarter or even enlightened, but still somewhat satisfied. I probably absorbed as much 'nutrition for the mind' as I would watching 5 hours of He Man and friends singing 'What's going on'?
(yes it does exist - but here's the short version)
You've got to love youtube. One of my favourite shows is Tosh.0, and it's purely based upon the hilarious crap videos people post. Speaking of windows into the lives of others, here's some more reasonably unhealthy food for thought:
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