Sunday, 17 June 2007
Could the Internet overload?
BBC's 'Click' has an interesting story on overloading the Internet. Although there will be no imminent crash, they do note the rise in Internet trafic since the inception of MP3 sharing in 1995 and the more recent advent of YouTube in 2003 and that the technology is not limitless, particularly closer to home. It is worth reflecting on the extent to which we are reliant on hardware, as well as the software, ideas and social formations that make the Internet what it is. Article here.
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- Andrew McStay
- I am director of the Media and Persuasive Communication (MPC) network at Bangor University where I also lecture on political-economy of the media. I am currently working on a book provisionally titled Deconstructing Privacy for Peter Lang and leading two empirical projects in connection with privacy perception and the use of new media for smoking cessation. I am author of Creativity and Advertising: Affect, Events and Process (Routledge, 2013); The Mood of Information: A Critique of Behavioural Advertising (Continuum, 2011); and Digital Advertising (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009). Please contact me at mcstay@bangor.ac.uk if you are interested in Ph.D supervision or consultancy services.
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