Rebuild the Internet #dgst101

What is the internet? I don’t think any of us have a valid response for this question. The internet is not a linear or direct process or physical thing that someone could pick up and describe. I think the best way to comprehend it is that the internet as a whole is the media, the mechanism, the platform that was given to others with the ability to access it. These people were able to fill the platform with any information they wanted to fill it with. There is endless space and seemingly endless possibilities in where to put information through websites. The internet is where people post to inform others, to engage with others, and those other people interact by absorbing that information or adding to it. Social networks then get built off of that logic and the online world seems to keep expanding.

I used the look of someone in the dark with the information of a book; a media that can only give information on the past as it cannot be updated. Then there are cords, one dark and not powered while the other one is bright and in use. This shows a connection between the book and the computer but the real thing powering it is the electricity. The electricity provides a home to the internet; while the internet is everywhere surrounding us, it only can live where electricity can power it. All those that have an account to any website, access to it, has looked up anything, or any other interaction also lives there. We have an online identity that stays online, so a part of us lives with the internet. Going back to the person and the book, it is specifically set up to be a single person with the limited information of a book (keep in mind, I love books so I am not speaking against them). Then moving through the tiny distance of space, it shows a computer being kept alive by its cords, lighting up with room with information, and connecting multiple people by one internet search. I added the tears, the crumbles, and the taped pieces to represent how messy the internet is. We see it as a powerful tool when it is really a place that your information gets used and kept forever. You think that your mistakes from years ago are gone when they are really still floating around somewhere. We can see how connected people can be through the internet and how the focus of the internet is usually what is trendy at that exact moment in time. I added all of the tools to make this (paper, stapler, markers, etc.) to represent that the internet was built and designed perfectly but as it grew, there were so many parts to it that it is hard to have any control over it goes from here.