HOWARD RHEINGOLD

Why I choose this person for my research and what meaning and importance does he have for me? Actually , hindi ko rin alam ,maybe i was curious about his name and what he have done .And ,yeah i research about him and i found out that : He was born on July 7, 1947 at Phoenix Arizona. When he is a teenager he take up his degree at Reed College in Portland Oregon on 1964-1968. After graduating he became a critic writer, and a teacher. He mastered the cultural, social and the political implications of modern communication media or what they call today as internet, mobile, telephony, and virtual community and they even say na isa siya sa mga nagbigay nang mga names. He's the first

I also find out the books that he wrote examples of this are; the virtual community: how to thrive online, smart mobs (2002); Tools for thought: the history and future of mind-expanding technology and virtual reality. Rheingold became a lecturer in Stanford university in a department of communication2.Kung saan nagturo siya nang dalawang courses. He taught about the "Digital journalism "and "Virtual communities and social media”. He became also an instructor of University of California, Berkeley school of information where he taught about "virtual communities and social media"Kung saan nagturo rin siya about "participatory media or collective action”. Then a professor in Institute of creative technologies at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. I also found out that Rheingold is a contributor to DMLcentral, a form of blog site about new media literacy to learning innovation. He became also a part of the Institute of noetic sciences and Xerox PARC, which he worked and write about the first generation computers that led him to write the Tools of thought on 1985.His also apart of WELL at the same year, I don’t really know what's the meaning of that but based on what they say WELL is a kind of an early online community i mean the oldest of all internet forums. In 1994 he was a principal architects and also the first one who become Executive Editor of Hotwired. Hotwired is a type of website newspaper or maybe a magazine. But he left after it is launched. 2 years after, 1996 he founded and launched his own website named Electric Minds, it came from one of the best website on the same year. Here they featured the chess rematch of grandmaster Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue in 1997. Later Rheingold sold it and build Brainstorms, a private conference community. And later build again the Rheingold Associate which is an online management business. In 2008 Howard Rheingold one of the 17 winners of MacArthur

Foundation Competition. He created an abstract online social media classroom that will teach some subjects on Participatory Media and Collective Action for U.C Berkeley and Digital Journalism for Stanford University to use and give the students a flexible and easy to use for teaching. I also read the interview of Howard Rheingold with Scott London in his house at Mill Valley, California about Life on the Electronic Frontier. And I was engulfed with their conversation about the political ramification of computer networks merged to Electronic Democracy. Rheingold assumed that media failed to explain the whole potential of the modern gadget. Because some people who hear the word "Internet “they don't see it as a source of factual information but an entertainment with inappropriate shows, a lodge of bunch of fraud and hackers, a digital printing press and electronic community. They also discuss about Kevin Kelly, one of the Wired Magazines executive editor who said that future will be involve in people with multiple setting of works so that Telecommunicating will be one of an option. But Rheingold said that does not simple as it is. Because technology caused a big gap between the people on top and the people below and also the people in middle because of life's status.

Scott London also asked Rheingold about how will the Internet will change in ten years. Rheingold said that he already think about that in his book in 1985 entitled Tools for Thought. He said that when people went to a right place and talked to a right person, it is easy to fall things to where it is supposed to be. But he also said that because of the pace of changes is rapid and chaotic it is not easy to predict of what will happen next. In his 2002 book entitled smart mobs, which predicting the collaboration of ventures like wiki's. Rheingold became the long-time observer of technology trends that made some influential case that able the mobile communication to merge with internet connection that will provide some new kinds of particular purpose in social groups. Rheingold also said that when it comes to computers and internet we have the possibility based on the system to direct the evolution of intelligence. In his last book, he predicted the transformation of our society into a digital world. Fantastic isn’t it? As I’ve said I don’t really know him and the meaning and importance does he have for me is, I was able to know him just by researching about him. And I also find out na parang siya ang nag-umpisa nang virtual community. Naging aware ako na siya pala ang naging first citizen nang digital world. And also that naging aware ako na Malaki ang naging imfluence niya sa larangan nang internet. As I was looking for more information about him I Realize na ang lawak nang mindset niya for the future gamit ang technology. Ibang- iba ang tingin niya sa computers and internet not like us na were not totally aware kung para saan ba talaga. Napaka optimistic niya sa lahat nang bagay and I’m glad na nakilala ko siya through this. But sad to say at the age of 69 he left the world.