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Advantages Of TV Streaming For A Home

Media Entertainment Business Review: Before users devote themselves to a streaming subscription, they must confirm that their Internet connection is competent.

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I am not from the #internetAge but I am trying to walk in the same #rythm #illustration #illustration #conceptart #arteconeptual #artwork #dibujo #ilustrador #illustator #conceptart #arteconeptual https://www.instagram.com/p/BsOdFy2H4M2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7onlzsbc8tem

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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected Web, a Werner Herzog film, 2016, documentary, 1h 38m.

I watched the film recently in a screening at the Singapore Art Science Museum. 

As usual Werner Herzog’s train of thought can be hard to follow as he zips through a myriad of concepts, experiences and perspectives. However these confusions can be overlooked for the purpose of telling the complex interlaced story of the internet inhabited by 300 billion netizens worldwide.

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The film pans out as an inquisitive essay. Delving into various notions and outlooks on the modern day internet. A good mix of the positives and the problematics, which have been structured into 10 chapters. We would learn many fascinating things in each. I was enthralled to learn about the birth of the internet in the Stanford Research Institute, the open source molecule modelling programme for medical research and the hacking perspective from Kevin Mitnick.

Herzog is not uncovering deep mysteries and dark secrets; all the information is readily available and any audience would have had possibly stumbled across these at some point. Hence I saw parts of the narrative which were recognizably familiar like the football playing robots and the Korean gaming tragedies; while the others were news to me.

The arrangement of these seemingly disparate anecdotes and interviews bring together a different understanding. Just as the painter with the arrangement of line and shade, represents the world in a painting; the documentarian is a curator of facts. Herzog’s views are embedded in his selection and arrangement of the facts he presents. 

Halfway through the film, all of us in the audience suddenly grew silent. This happened when Herzog introduced the more depressing issues in the internet world. The story of a teenager, Nikki Catsouras, who died in a fatal car crash. Her death pictures immediately went viral and were transmitted back to her father. And then there was the guy who had his leg amputated due to surfing the net for too long for his body’s circulation to function normally. And the group of people who seek solace in nature due to the detrimental effects technology had on their health. I thought that these incidents explored the dark, unforgiving and disgusting side of the internet. It contrasted well with the initial hype and wonderment at the start of the film. These two broad themes kept going back and forth into what I thought was a great variety and depth of issues.

Lastly, what I enjoyed was that although there were many horrific things, the overall tone of the film was a rather positive one. The history of the human race can be rather depressing as it is written in the most part of wars, plague and oppression. It is certainly humanity’s hope that the internet age will do better. And I think this is what the film is endeavoring to drive our discussions towards.

If you haven’t watched the film, I highly recommend it. Take a plunge into web’s absurdities and wonderment. Listen to the voices. But remember to be skeptical about it.

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The virtual age is here – change of the travel marketing during two decades

    In the past two decades, we started to live in age of internet and our lives moved into the virtual reality more and more. Is it a good thing or no? The virtual world is now everywhere and got a big influence on daily life in good and also i bad way. And what about impact on marketing? Is everything on the social networks, like every commercial, just for the filling the space? No, so look at it now in this blog post.

      Before the internet it was really hard for companies to sell the travel product, they got just the catalogues in the office. After that came the change with the virtual world – 1990s. They could put their commercials and travel product on place, where everybody could look at it, doesn’t matter from which part of the world. This was a big challenge an also opportunity in travel marketing. In 2000 travel companies started to provide the booking services, interactive tours and much more. Now costumers could go on their dreamed holiday just trough the virtual world and see, if this destinations is the right one. Also in that time was established the most famous portal for travelers – Tripadvisor. This portal started to give the advices for independent travelers – where is worthy to go, which hotel to pick and more. Now we could find the Tripadvisor also on another social platform – instagram. In this time the Tripadvisor got 50 milions inquiries monthly from the internet users.

      Also another big chance for the travel marketing were the big searching internet engines such a Google or Kayak. Nothing is more easy then to just type the name of destinations and push the button for searching, in a second you will got so many opportnities to go on your next holiday. Also you can book your hotel trough many internet websites, for example Booking.com .

      One of the „new“ things is still the Instagram platform or Snapchat, both of the named apps for smartphones got a huge impact on travelling. Instagram was established in 2010 by App store, in 2012 was also able for Google play. Instagram is the easy way, how to put photos on social networks sites in second even with filters. The hashtags, that are offer using are the smart marketing commercial for travelling – destinations, hotels, atractions – „free of charge commercial“. Also the snapchat is more and more popular, but is not that easy to measure the impact in marketing, they are not hashtags and pictures are delated after sending.

        The internet got a huge positive impact on travel marketing. We don’t know, where the social networks will improve in few years. One thing is sure, we are starting to be a virtual society and in the future we will see if in good or bad way.

Reaction on article: Tourism marketing from 1990-2010 (Two decades and new paradigm), Daniel R. Fesenmaier and Zheng Xiang

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❌⭕️❌⭕️🔞 #body #popart #sexualization #internetage (at Saatchi Gallery, Sloanne Square)

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This festival is going to be epic!

Internet Age Media Weekend. Barcelona, march 20-22, 2015. Are you in? More info: www. i-a-m.in Music: "Glitch" by Jason Shaw