Reading # 2

This reading helps to explain what exactly the internet is and some of the characteristics of the medium as a whole. However, there seems to be a small problem with answering this question specifcally, this is mainly because the internet is developing more and more each day. This development in return is causing the medium to change and take on different and undiscovered paths. Besides attempting to answer the question of what the interent is the reading also goes onto highlighting how effective the internet has become to the public in general. Reading on it shown how the internet uses a number of different traditional forms of communication such as interpersonal (one to one), public speaking,and mass media just to name a few. These can be seen with homepages,blogs,university websites,news websites, and etc. The reading also pointed out the fact that the internet is a macromedium which besically means it's big and can communicate with large scales of people. Then there was a focus placed on the three main communication problems people faced with the internet like reliability,speed and distribution. The reading then goes onto pointing out the six key qualities of the medium like multimediated ,hypertextual, interactive, (a)synchronous,packetbased, and digital. Each of these mediums helped to give insight into how the internet effectively uses them.