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