ExxonMobil Training Contract
January 2019 - January 2020
The ideology of Convergence defines as the merging of separate entities like devices, technologies, trades and social-culture approaches as a whole.
One in consideration is the convergence between electronic-devices, internet-access, online-media and social-culture. Example, “smartphone”.
Smartphones are “electronic-devices“ featuring inbuilt gadgets like camera or GPS that accesses “mobile-internet“, engages with “media“ where copyrighted or un-copyrighted materials are spread locally or worldwide and leads impact on “society and cultural-change”.
Thus, because of the accessibility on sharing both online harmful or harmless materials are ungovernable.
Countries authorities everywhere decided on taking actions by introducing censorship , copyright-protections , denationalization , cyber-securitization , rules and regulations .
Example, Australian commercial television-networks endorses with locally produced material and youngsters-content regulations.
In 2001, Clyde Wayne introduced “Splinternet” characterising Internet as separating and splintering into elements like commerce, technology, conflict of interests, religion, nationalism, and politics.
“A Degree of fragmentation already exists” writes Al-Jazeera and Internet might segregate along geographical and monetary boundaries. Economist-weekly explained by creating territoriality approach, internet is at risk of breaking-up into national and regional networks.
Many countries well-thought-out on cyber-balkanization and geo-blocking.
This includes internet in China is different from internet in Australia, countries like Egypt blocks child-pornography websites, countries like South-Korea censors North-Korea internet contents and countries like Norway accessing incalculable amounts of free online-books , but one needs to be in Norway to do so.
Scholars’ argues that internet should be independent, global and unregulated-platform.
Some debates that geo-blocking is discrimination, locks in artists and locks out audience.
Therefore, there shouldn’t be an unjustified geo-blocking.
