Digital resources tagged with ‘Internet’

ABC Online & Broadband Production

What does the end of the 'golden age of Australian broadcast media' mean? Stuart Cunningham discusses the idea.

Australia dials up

Trevor Barr compares the complex and slow access to the Internet in the 1960s to today's high speed broadband service.

Blogging

Blogging can be used as a means of pursuing a cause.

Broadcast Media Ownership

Trevor Barr looks forward to the future of broadcasting and the internet in Australia.

Broadcasts in cyberspace

Trevor Barr contrasts the privileged access to public television broadcasts with the free information exchange on the Internet. Stephen Mayne celebrates the value of ABC Online as a national resource and describes how activists have used the Internet to successfully broadcast their alternative views.

Hackers

In the 1980s members of an underground hacker community called The Realm hacked into the Internet via a university network.

Online Communities

ALTOS - an online chat community based in Germany - provided a 'world without borders' for its members.

The Digital Divide

Trevor Barr reminds us that more than half of the world's population does not have access to the Internet. Stephen Mayne shares his belief that the digital divide will prevent Internet broadcasts from reaching entire populations in the way that television or radio broadcasts can.

World Internet Project

Trevor Barr links the rise in Internet users with the change in lifestyle practices of television audiences.

World Wide Web

Websites are the new vehicles for advertising.