Found this picture from the Internet. This can really describe how I think about network. One word to describe, Complicated!
For me, Network is complicated. It involves people, media, culture, languages, technologies and many more. Network unites people from different countries and cultures. Without network, everyone will be lack of entertainment, knowledge and even lack of the fun of discovering new things.
Why the network society now?
The answer is in the development of microelectronices and software-based communication technologies.
(Castells, M.)
I am agree with what Castells said about "Why the network society now?" Technologies are slowly developing and it has become more high-tech compare to the old days. The development of technologies make networks become wider and bigger. Everything now are dealing through networks. Without technologies, network will not occur. From what I see, high-tech gadgets are everywhere! iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, HTC are not something new anymore, even children are familiar with these gadgets. People use these gadgets to communicate with the world and network plays a important role here. Through gadgets, people can access to the network; through network, people can communicate with world.
Network society expands on a global scale.
"Networks know no boundaries", says Castells. It is just like a global, we hardly discover all the places or countries in the world. So, is this why the word "Global Network" occur? Just a random question! Haha! Anyway, I think network is big enough for people to discover. No one can view and discover all the knowledge and ideas in network. Just because of the unlimited knowledge, societies can get influence easily by the new knowledge, for example, culture, behavior and attitude. discovering the knowledge and idea through network, people tend to influenced Network is a huge place for people to communicate, for politicians to do announcement or communicate with citizens, for organizations to upgrade their company and market.
According to Castells, networked organisations outcompete all other forms of organisation, particularly the vertical, rigid, command-and-control bureaucracies. From my point of view, I think network is powerful for an organization to expand their company. Through network, organizations can actually expanding their company without using any boring yet formal ways.
Why do a organization choose to use a old and outdated way to expand their company when there are more creative and effective ways? The creative and effective ways that I'm trying to say is Network. In my opinion, people now always implement their creativity into Network. Organizations can expand their company by Network with creativity. For instance, social networking site. Social networking site is wide and covered big coverage as many of us are using social networking site like Facebook, Twitter and all. An organization can uses a social networking site to attract business partner or communicate with customers which can help organization understand the market as well as expanding their market share in the world.
Imagine our world without Network. I can imagine how people sending letter through pigeon; people search place by map not google map. the important thing is, people from other countries will not know Malaysian is living in the house not on the tree.
According to Castells, networked organisations outcompete all other forms of organisation, particularly the vertical, rigid, command-and-control bureaucracies. From my point of view, I think network is powerful for an organization to expand their company. Through network, organizations can actually expanding their company without using any boring yet formal ways.
Why do a organization choose to use a old and outdated way to expand their company when there are more creative and effective ways? The creative and effective ways that I'm trying to say is Network. In my opinion, people now always implement their creativity into Network. Organizations can expand their company by Network with creativity. For instance, social networking site. Social networking site is wide and covered big coverage as many of us are using social networking site like Facebook, Twitter and all. An organization can uses a social networking site to attract business partner or communicate with customers which can help organization understand the market as well as expanding their market share in the world.
Imagine our world without Network. I can imagine how people sending letter through pigeon; people search place by map not google map. the important thing is, people from other countries will not know Malaysian is living in the house not on the tree.
Without Network, I think we can't contact with people from overseas as well. Unless the pigeon are strong enough to fly across the ocean and send to the right place! Haha!
ReplyDeleteHaha! How many pigeon will need to exist in the world on that moment? No doubt, the complexity of network do provide us the convenience to communicate with each other. Like now, we are interconnecting with each other. :)
ReplyDeleteJiaXin, HAHA! poor pigeon. Have to build a lot of station for them to rest. :P
ReplyDeleteSookMun, and we are actually connecting through MSN, Facebook and Twitter as well. Fuuuuuh. Power of network! :)
Pei Jie, i like the picture from ur blog.. =) well, the network is just complicated yet it simply make us together, I can see u (not physically), but i'm watching u, i'm knw what u were doing right now.. :D
ReplyDeletehahaha! I guess all of them have their GPS set in its mind already! hahaa
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAH! I like your last sentence!
ReplyDeleteIt's true. Someone I was chatting randomly on9 asked me once, "Does Malaysia have Sun?"
So sad! ;((
But anywayyyy, the first picture that served as the introduction of this post is brilliant! Network as we can see from the picture is indeed complicated! It would be interesting to know how network has started off step by step. The process would of course be full of complex jargons we wouldn't even know! But still it's fascinating to even think how they even created network.
I like how you said network enhances creativity. This is a very good point that relates not to only business entities but everyone, students, academics etc. Interaction is now creative!
& finally I like your pigeon point. HEEE!
yeah Pei Jie i just cant imagine the world without network..its crazy!! with social networking we be able to stay in touch with minimal time commitment!! we can use google map to find a place..we do not have to go in circles to find a building or house!! hahah
ReplyDeleteComplicated? That's the reason that we need to understand the internet better. Our future lies in our ability to understand the facets and characteristics of the net(work).
ReplyDelete"It involves people, media, culture, languages, technologies and many more". Yes, let's start there.
Simple but effective opening. Keep posting.
Ya, the relationship between the network and the people is really complicated as nowadays human can't live without network. Network help people communication all over the world. It also help people increase their knowledge.My friend who study in Taiwan told me that she tell the Taiwanese that we stay on the tree and they believe.in what she had said.In the communication,I think they should less using social networking but more on search engine as the internet provided all kind of information. They just only need to move their finger and clicking on the web site and they will get the answer on it.I think that network really help people a lot in the life and make people live in the richness world and we can know everything thought internet and without walking out the room.
ReplyDeleteComplicated is a good description on network and that is why we need to work harder on it, learn as much as we can to handle the needs in the future market. Imagine when you are going for an interview in the future, how would your boss answer you if you tell him the network is complicate. We got to improve ourselves on this industry and learn more about it. When you are new, it seems to be tough but after you have overcome the problem, it is just as simple as you facebook or send an email.
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