The impact of the internet
This paper tends to perform a critical analysis about the impact of the Internet to our society. It will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet and its social implications. Moreover, this paper will discuss the current stability of the internet in our society with respect to education, business, politics, and society. Moreover, Internet crimes such as Fraud achieved by the manipulation of computer records, Spamming where this is outlawed completely or where regulations controlling it are violated, Deliberate circumvention of computer security systems, Unauthorised access to or modification of programs (hacking) and data, Industrial espionage by means of access to or theft of computer materials, Identity theft where this is accomplished by use of fraudulent computer transactions, Writing or spreading computer viruses or worms, Salami slicing is the practice of stealing money repeatedly in extremely small quantities and pornography will be discussed. A recurrent theme across domains is that the Internet tends to complement rather than displace existing media and patterns of behavior. Thus in each domain, utopian claims and dystopic warnings based on extrapolations from technical possibilities have given way to more announced and circumscribed understandings of how Internet use adapts to existing patterns, permits certain innovations, and reinforces particular kinds of change. Moreover, in each domain the ultimate social implications of this new technology depend on economic, legal, and policy decisions that are shaping the Internet as it becomes institutionalized. Impact of Internet

Introduction
In the general sense, an internet (with a lowercase "i", a shortened form of the original inter-network) is a computer network that connects several networks. As a proper noun, the Internet is the publicly available internationally interconnected system of computers (plus the information and services they provide to their users) that uses the TCP/IP suite of packet switching communications protocols. Thus, the largest internet is called simply "the" Internet. The art of connecting networks in this way is called internetworking. This paper tends to perform a critical analysis about the impact of the Internet to our society. This paper will also tackle the positive and negative effects of the internet. In particular, the research will focus on the questions: “What are the related factors affecting the progress of modern society in relation to internet advantages and disadvantages?” In this study, the background, context and theme of the study are presented; the objectives of the study and the research statements are formulated. Here, vital concepts, questions and assumptions are stated. Finally, the scope and limitation of the study, methodology to be used and the significance of the research are discussed. Further, this paper briefly reviews related literature. Purpose of the Study

Generally, the purpose of the study is to conduct a critical analysis to determine the impact of the Internet. The research will specifically identify the different factors related to positive and negative effect of the internet. Moreover, this study would review relevant literature on the same topic. Based on the preliminary review of literature, the researcher assumed that the Internet has a significant effect/ impact to our society. Research Question and Null Hypothesis

The focus of this problem statement is to establish and determine the impact of the internet to our community. Currently, there are limited studies that provide a definitive answer regarding the negative and positive influence of the internet. The researcher is hopeful that this study will yield a significant result in terms of both positive and negative impact of respect to our modern community. Thus, the study will work on the following hypothesis: “There is a significant relationship between the progress of Internet and modern society” This study will attempt to answer the following questions:

1. Should (or must) businesses use the Internet?
2. Is the Internet beneficial?
3. Is it profitable?
4. Is it a significant, lasting change?
5. What are the positive and negative effects of the internet? Main Material
There is much public concern about the Internet stemming from some of the controversial material it contains. Copyright infringement, pornography and paedophilia, so called "identity theft," and hate speech are common and difficult to regulate (cyber law). "Sex" remains one of the most frequently searched terms on many Internet search engines (cf. sexual morality). Some of the concerns, which many argue are not rationally based, have even approached the level of moral panic, similar to the British one over video nasties in the 1980s. The Internet has a large and growing number of users that have created a distinct culture, Internet dynamics. (Netiquette, Internet friendship, Trolls and trolling, Flaming, Cybersex, Hacktivism or Hacker culture, Internet humor, Internet slang, and Internet art.) The Internet is also having a profound impact on knowledge and worldviews. Through keyword-driven Internet research, using search engines, like Google, millions worldwide have easy, instant access to a vast amount and diversity of online information. Compared to books and traditional libraries, the Internet represents a sudden and extreme decentralization of information and data. The most used language for communications on the Internet is English, due to the Internet's origins, to its use commonly in software programming, to the poor capability of early computers to handle characters other than western alphabets. The net has grown enough in recent years, though, that sufficient native-language content for a worthwhile experience is available in most developed countries. However, some glitches such as mojibake still remain troublesome for Internet users. Deaths have been blamed on the Internet by some people. Brandon Vedas died after overdosing on a mixture of legal and illegal drugs while other IRC chatters egged him on. Shawn Woolley shot himself after his life was ruined by an addiction to Everquest, according to his mother. Bernd-Jurgen Brandes was stabbed to death and eaten by Armin Meiwes after responding to an Internet advertisement requesting a "well-built male prepared to be slaughtered and then consumed." Sociology's major theoretical traditions emphasize different aspects of electronic media. For Durkheimians, point-to-point communications media like telephones reinforce organic solidarity, while broadcast media like radio or television yield powerful collective representations (Alexander 1988). Marxists focus upon exploitation of communications media to enhance elite control of both politics and production through cultural hegemony and enhanced surveillance (Schiller 1996, Davis et al 1997). Weberians attend to the ways in which point-to-point media advance rationalization by reducing limits of time and space, and broadcast media provide the elements of distinctive status cultures (Collins 1979). Other traditions also offer perspectives on the digital media. Technological determinists suggest that structural features of new media induce social change by enabling new forms of communication and cultivating distinctive skills and sensibilities (McLuhan 1967, Eisenstein 1979). In the 1960s, students of social change suggested that in the face of new developments in communications technology, industrial society would yield to the "information society," with consequences in every institutional realm (Machlup 1962, Bell 1973). Critical theorists problematize the effects of technological change on political deliberation and the integrity of civil society (Habermas 1989, Calhoun 1998). Daniel Bell (1977) appears to have been the first to write about the social impact of digital communications media themselves. Bell predicted that major social consequences would derive from two related developments: the invention of miniature electronic and optical circuits capable of speeding the flow of information through networks; and the impending integration of computer processing and telecommunications into what Harvard's Anthony Oettinger dubbed "compunications" technology. Anticipating the democratization of electronic mail and telefaxing, as well as digital transmission of newspapers and magazines, Bell explored the policy dilemmas these changes would raise, calling "the socia...

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