Richland Digital Video Fall 2018

Hito Steryl proposes and interesting idea that helps us see how far the internet has come. Steryl makes his readers grasp the reality of the internet. What once started as a good thing full of possibility has transform into something that can be very dark and scary. “Although not everyone uses the internet, the internet has reached unimaginable places” it has transforming reality into something that is not true a false reality, and we depend so much on this. We are very dependent on the internet, risking our privacy our safety giving it the power to shape our beliefs and ideas as well as our perception of reality. With all his interesting ideas Hito Steryl makes us realize how alive the internet is maybe even more alive than we are. The bad of our world uses the internet to control us more than we control it.

Hito Steryl brings up an interesting argument that the internet is not what it used to be when it was first introduced. Back in the 90's the internet was meant to facilitate communication around the world and to have easier access to information. While that part is still true today, the part that's dead is the privacy part. In 2013, we learned that the U.S government could listen to what you are saying over the phone. This raised a lot of speculation as to what extent the government watches us. We have probably been watched by the government since the Internet was introduced in the 90's, however we were not aware of it. The moment we discovered we don't have as much privacy the Internet died.

I really enjoyed this article. I think that it may have been my favorite one this far. I like all of the analogies, puns, ideas, angles and predictions. They had a good point. Although internet seems endless, it also has a certain degree of limitation. Although it seems free, it also has a lot of restriction and supervision. It is disappointing that everything is under surveliance and tracked. Even commerical agencies track you so that they can advertise the type of products that you enjoy. That is disappointing and scary. Youtube even makes you watch ads related to things that they know you are interested in. Some web sites will not even let you view their articles if you do not enable cookies and allow them to dig their fangs into you.  I loved the end about how they think that the internet should be a living creature. I know this is clique but that made me think of the matrix. The article mentioned that although the internet is manmade, humans do not play the entire role. There i

To quote the reading, the internet, as far as I'm concerned, is not dead, but "all over". As time passed since the creation of the internet and with the building of multiple websites, the internet hasn't died, but has become such a part in our life that it's almost second nature. Once you go online for the first time, you're so enamored that you can hardly pull yourself out, and even if you manage to, it's still affecting you one way or the other. Cinema has also evolved and equally become nature to us, generating technology for TV, home media, Apple products, etc. The main problem is that people are watching . On a lot of sites, if you got an account, you can mess up with copyright or other things. Whether it's the government making sure you're following the laws or if it's some salesman website trying to scam someone, the point is that the internet is being watched and with things like copyright on the list, they're making sure you f

Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl talks here about a mental or spiritual death that the internet undergoes. In fact, the internet (when introduced in 1983) was this very new and innovative thing, now it is just something mainstream that is part of our daily life. I would say that it lost it's magic. Internet used to be a place to achieve knowledge and was supposed to stay a very practical way of getting informations or communicat. However, it is now a business that is governed by overpowered corporations that abuse it's power in order to make a propaganda use out of it. Is the Internet dead ? No, it did not die, but it lost its life.