What is NETWORKED MEDIA ( one of my nominated posts)

MEDIA = A “medium”, (plural: media) is something intermediate, something
between one person and another, and that medium allows us to communicate or express ideas.(across space and time)

NETWORKED = “networked”: not face-to-face: there is a carrier medium. Not one-to-one {telephone}. Not broadcast {one-to-many e.g TV, radio}. It’s many-to-many. In practice, that means the >>internet.


HTML = HyperText Markup Language

XML = eXtensible Markup Language. XML is kind-of human readable, and it’s kind-of
machine readable.So it’s a good compromise.

RSS = Really Simple Syndication.(The basis for newsreader feeds)

Moreover, I learnt a little bit of Internet history from the first lecture as well.

Precursor: ARPANET ARPA was the Us Advanced Research Projects Agency.

in 1960s, They started connecting computer network across US and then the world.

In the past, the internet was very slow, and we unable to send the whole message or file in one contiguous stream.

So, we have to chopping up data into packets, this method called 'Packet switching' and the data have to send along with 'Metadata'

Metadata is the thing that tells the packet where to go, so when the receiver got the packet they will understand it.