CART 351: Week 2

NeMe: The Work of Artists in a Databased Society: net.art as on-line activism by Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga

Is it fair to say that the internet can be used as an isolated environment to track down or statistically analyze today's society? Zúñiga believes, or purely communicates to his audience the term cyberspace. Which can be said to be an electronic medium, where communication is simplified. Individuals can interact, communicate, exchange ideas, create artistic media by using this so called electronic medium. Though this may sound nothing but good news to this technological era, Zúñiga points out that "The network increasingly interweaves the virtual and real." Thus, altering our ways of thinking and interacting with one another.

Social values are greatly diminished and our lack of communicating with one another is virtually un-existent.

10 ways data is changing how we live

Data, data, everywhere, every day, all the time. Data is collected from our daily activities such as shopping, in advertising, from the war to our relationships all is collected and nothing is left out. With technologies quickly advancing, information collected is even greater than before. By taking Google world as an example, information that we might take for granted is broadcasted all over the internet. Nothing is kept a secret from the public. It becomes much easier to track somebody down. We must understand that a lot of money is going into the research for more data.