Essays on Internet

The internet and its continually progressive nature have shaped society in ways that have alleviated difficulties with communication (e.g. social media) and entertainment (e.g. streaming services). Amongst the advantages of the internet, a multitude of studies have argued the negative effects of sustained exposure to...

Being able to connect seamlessly to the internet has become an integral part of our lives. Technology has advanced hence we have moved from an age that involves a lot of tangled cables to wireless connectivity particularly Wi-Fi. This is where radio waves have proved...

Online dating or E-dating has become a global phenomena in the recent years. This could be attributed to the advent of web 2.0 and the increase in number of people who have access to the internet. The first modern online dating website became available to...

In his book The Selfish Gene published in 1976, Richard Dawkins was the first to coin the concept of memes in academia. He suggested that the term meme is a Darwinian, gene-centered approach to cultural evolution, calling it “the unit of cultural transmission”. Internet memes...

Contemporary digital technologies and the practices related to them are fundamental components of contemporary power in our society. Innovations in ICTs and C3Is have been at the forefront of how societal power specifically in politics, the military and police, and the notion of utopian discourses....

‘The medium is the message’ is a phrase by Marshall McLuhan. This phrase is about the way we deliver, direct and obtain information. Expanding from the phrase is the medium more important than the information itself? Is what’s been communicated less important than the way...

Think about a world today that would have no internet, imaging how chaotic and disconnecting the life in the world would be. The internet has changed the world in unimaginable ways that were only works of dreams and imagination in the past. Technology has grown...

Narcissism is commonly defined as “pleasure derived from contemplation and admiration of one’s own body or self, considered in psychoanalytic theory to be a fixation on or a regression to an infantile stage of development. ” Understood in terms of the myth Narcissus, narcism has...

The 21st century is known for being called a digital era. The rapid development of science and technology has led to significant changes in people’s lives. Today, it is hard to imagine living a day without using electronic devices and connecting to the Internet. Lots...

Nowadays, the Internet plays an important role in people’s life and work for example education and self-improvement, friendship and dating, electronic newspapers and magazines, entertainment and gaming, and it gradually becomes an indispensable part of human. How much of personal life have people shared on...