From Virtual To Everyday Life Analysis

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Internet and social network

Abstract

The major talking point by Verschuerne is directed towards the implication of internet and social network. He asserts that anything in the world can be used for good purpose, just like in the case of social media, but the negatives are more often taken by the people. Social networks provide an option to become friends with people from different parts of the world. It makes people to be friends with new people so that we can acquire knowledge of different culture of various parts of the world. It makes also some friendship that helping our job search, carrier guidance etc. The major argument advanced by the author is that the community is a process and it advances with time; now it is time for internet and social network to regenerate the community. This makes the article more interesting because it enforces the argument about the positivity coming with internet and social network.

Review of From Virtual to Everyday Life by Paul Verschueren

Summary

Paul Verschueren is the author of the article, “From Virtual to Everyday Life”, which majorly focuses on the impact brought about by the use of internet and social network. Over the decades the internet use have really advanced and been popularized. Inventions are made every other time and the use of social media has …show more content…

To begin with there was the utopia- dystopian, then the electronic field study and lastly the contextualized field. According to him the internet had made it possible for people to interact widely across the globe- Virtual community is a term he coined to explain this advancement. Rheingold concept was embraced many and for a time no more research was done. Then some scholars especially in the discipline of Psychology and Philosophy started researching on the difference between the online communication and the one on one

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