1. The World of Global Communication

2. O We’ll going to talk about the the world’s global communication, like the Internet, the press, telephony (which developed to radio), telephone, mobile phone, television and so on.

3. The World of Global Communication O We live in a world of global communication. That has a number of alternate communication infrastructures in place, many of which are global in nature. While the Internet is the most pervasive and recent of all global communication solutions, other older systems such as international mail and telephony have also played a huge role in bringing the world together, like the press (magazines, newspapers, radio, television, (...)).

4. The World of Global Communication O The very nature of global communication is one of the driving factors behind globalisation, and as the technology that drives these changes gets smaller and more efficient – international communication gets easier and faster.

5. The Internet O The Internet is the most visited mean of information in the world. It is a global system of interconnected computer networks used to serve billions of users worldwide.

6. The Internet O Consists in millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. O The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.

7. The Internet Newspaper, book and other print publishing are adapting to Web site technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds. The Internet has enabled or accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking.

8. The Internet O The pros of using Internet in today’s society: O You can have freedom to view whatever content you want because have much information that you can access quicker; O When you’re bored, it comes in handy for keeping you occupied; O It helps you to find much information that you want for school works, research, things that you like, etc.

9. The Internet O You can keep in contact with many people over the websites and MSN in all the world; O You can do shopping on the Internet vs. going to the stores; O You can access to the Internet anywhere; O You can collaborate in many projects with people far away from you; O Companies can work with others and their colleagues anywhere; O The information was democratized; O It’s ecologic: lower consumes of resources like paper and plastic.

10. The Internet O The cons of using the Internet in today’s society: O The internet is not controlled and is very insecure if you don’t know how to manage it; O It has many illegalities like stealing, pornography, pedophilia, abuse trough blackmailing, spam, (...); O It can be dangerous for children and naive people; O It can become addictive for some people;

11. The Internet O If you register in web sites and don’t read the informations, you can be mistaken and it can be very expensive, so you mustn’t reveal your personal informations like phone number, address and passwords; O Some bad people can hack into your computer and steal or modify something; O Dispersion of information; O If you are careless, everybody can see your informations;

12. The Internet O The cons of using the Internet in today’s society: O The internet is not controlled and is very insecure if you don’t know how to manage it; O It has many illegalities like stealing, pornography, pedophilia, abuse trough blackmailing, spam, (...); O It can be dangerous for children and naive people; O It can become addictive for some people;

13. The Internet