Laboratory work №14

Information culture.Internet culture.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) – Transfers files between two machines

• Requires an FTP server on the host machine and an FTP client on user’s machine

• Much like the webserver/webbrowser relationship (“client-server”)

  • Requests and replies for files instead of HTML documents and components

FTP: manual ftp

• Login to host machine

  • ftp sole.stanford.edu

  • username: bob

  • password: ******

• To request a file(s)

  • get program1.cc

  • get *.html

• To send file(s)

  • put program2.cc

  • put *.html

• FTP: Getting Graphical

• Many, many free graphical FTP programs are available

• Two recommendations are:

  • WS_FTP LE

  • CuteFTP

• Both are available at:

  • http://www.tucows.com

FTP: GUI Login

Age

Average age: 33

Sex

1997: 68% male, 32% female W3C

1998: 59% male, 41% female GA Tech

2000: 60% male, 40% female user survey

Education

Income

Average Income: $59,000/yr.

Marital Status

• Married: 41.1%

• Single: 38.7%

• Living w/ someone: 9.2%

• Divorced or separated: 8.3%

Geography

• USA: 84.4%

• Europe: 5.8%

• Canada: 4.9%

• All other: 4.9%

Internet Experience

• Under 6 mo.s: 7.9%

• 6-12 mo.s: 10.5%

• 1-3 years: 45%

• 4-6 years: 27.2%

• over 7 years: 9.4%

Internet Usage

• 78% of respondents use their web browser more than once a day

  • 38% use it more frequently than 4 times a day

  • 40% use the web 1-4 times a day

• 19% use it less frequently than once a day

Occupation

• Educational: 24.9%

• Computer related: 21.4%

• Professional: 22.5%

• Management: 11.4%

Other various fields: 19.8%

Operating System (1999)

• Windows: 81.3%

• Macintosh: 13.0%

• Unix: 2.7%

• WebTV: 0.8%

• Dos: 0.6%

• OS2: 0.2%

• Other or unknown: 1.4%

Shopping Habits

• 77.8% have purchased products or services online

• 21.6% have never purchased a product or service online

• 0.7% don't know

  • Of the females who responded, just over 70% have purchased online and of the males, 80% have purchased online. Not a vast difference in markets.

Purpose on the net?

• Browsing around (surfing): 79%

• Entertainment: 65%

• Work / research: 51%

Bookmarks

• 77% have between 11-50 bookmarks

• 19% have over 100 bookmarks

• Access

  • 64% access the Net from home

  • 31% access from work

  • 5% other access

• 81% are registered to vote

• 98.3% use English as their primary language

Internet Communities

• Communities as groups of related users

• Each internet community has its own “culture”

  • Hackers and gamers and chatters and activists are all vastly different groups

Delayed Collaboration Communities

• Groups of people that share ideas and thoughts in stable messages

• No “face-to-face” time, user interaction

• Different types:

  • On the web, “newsgroups” on various topics

  • Bulletin boards

  • Instant Messaging (some flavors)

  • Email lists

Delayed Collaboration Examples

• www.dejanews.com

  • newsgroups on various topics

• gsc@drizzle.stanford.edu

  • mailing list of all Stanford graduate students

• www.stepfamily.net

  • email questions with public replies

  • ask the experts

  • like “Dear Abby” or NPR’s Car Talk

• http://www.delphi.com/extremecompute/start/

  • specific topic message boards, hardware

Realtime Collaborative Communities

• Groups of people that share ideas and thoughts

• Actual “face-to-face” time, conversational

• Different types:

  • IRC - Internet Relay Chat

  • AIM chat, ICQ chat

  • AOL chatrooms

What “chat” looks like

Virtually Societies

• MUSH - MUltiuser Shared Hallucination

  • “rooms” connected to myriad other rooms

  • “walk-around”, explore, build, interact

• Virtual Worlds

  • Ultima Online

  • EverQuest

  • Asheron’s Call “games”

• Hitchhiker’s Guide to Earth

  • building knowledge, collaboratively

  • http://www.h2g2.com/

Lang. of Abbr.

afk: Away from keyboard.

bbiab: (I'll) be back in a bit.

bbl: (I'll) be back later.

brb: (I'll) be right back.

btw: By the way.

fubar: [Messed] up beyond all repair (or recognition).

imho: In my humble opinion.

irl: In real life (as opposed to virtual reality).

jk: Just kidding.

lol: (I'm) laughing out loud.

• otoh: On the other hand.

• rl: Real life.

• rotfl: (I'm) rolling on the floor laughing.

• spam: A lot of unwanted text on your screen, usually scrolling by so fast that it's difficult to read or text that you want to see gets lost in it.

• ttyl: (I'll) talk to you later.

• vr: Virtual reality.

• wtf: What the [heck]? A vulgar exclamation of unpleasant surprise or confusion.

Gaming Communities

• All sorts of games

  • Turn-based: Cards, chess, Trivial Pursuit

    • often use web-browsers, free, high latency ok

  • Realtime Strategy: War games, empire Building

    • purchased software, high latency not too bad

  • FPS: First person shooters

    • purchased software, low latency to be competitive

Gaming Societies

• By game, e.g., the “Quake Community”

  • http://www.planetquake.com/

  • In team games, by group/clan/tribe

http://www.tribalwar.com/vanguard

Elements of game culture

• The culture is very feudal

  • wars are waged on virtual battelfields

  • win and lose virtual turf

http://www.ogl.org/cgi-bin/league.pl?league=ctf_open&mode=display_universe

• Status derived from skill

• Highly Uncivilized in nature

Gamer Demographics

• Last update Feb 27 2001 11:45am PST

  • www.theclq.com

  • Online Players: 12,873,958

  • Online Teams: 261,366

  • Online Servers: 316,940

• Typically Male, 16-24

Gamer Demographics

• Last update Feb 27 2001 11:45am PST

  • www.theclq.com

  • Online Players: 12,873,958

  • Online Teams: 261,366

  • Online Servers: 316,940

• Typically Male, 16-24

Control questions:

1. What is a culture?

2. Internet User Demographics

3. Delayed Collaboration Communities

4. Real-time Communities

5. Virtual Societies

6. Gaming Communities

List of recommended references

1. June J. Parsons and Dan Oja, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts 16th Edition - Comprehensive, Thomson Course Technology, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc Cambridge, MA, COPYRIGHT © 2014.

2. Lorenzo Cantoni (University of Lugano, Switzerland) James A. Danowski (University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA) Communication and Technology, 576 pages.

3. Craig Van Slyke Information Communication Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (6 Volumes). ISBN13: 9781599049496, 2008, Pages: 4288

4. Brynjolfsson, E. and A. Saunders (2010). Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

5. Kretschmer, T. (2012), "Information and Communication Technologies and Productivity Growth: A Survey of the Literature", OECD Digital Economy Papers, No. 195, OECD Publishing.

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