Using examples from the course’s textbook, articles, and lectures discuss the ways in which the development of the Internet came about via a complex interplay of large-scale institutional forces and small-scale grassroots cultural practices. Identify and explain the significance of two institutional and two grassroots contributions to the Internet. Be sure to identify and address the most relevant technological, political, cultural, social, and/or economic dimensions of each of the 4 examples that you provide.
The term “contribution” can refer to things such as: a material device, a business model, a government policy, a social or cultural practice, a conceptualization, or even an ideological or ethical point of view.
– Additional research is not required for the assignment, but citations from the course textbook and assigned readings are required.
YOU MUST FIND THE TEXTBOOK “THE INFORMATION SOCIETY” By Robert Hassan. and relate the essay to the readings in chapter
#1- The Information Society Today: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
#2- The Coming of the Information Society
#3- Information Takes Over
Attached are also articles and readings that need to be relate to the essay.
Attached in the word doc is helping information summarizing the chapters