Once again, another incredibly heavy and dry reading. When are we going to read something that isn’t filled with computing jargon and coding languages that I don’t think I’ll ever understand? Sometimes I’m not really sure where this course is going in terms of communications studies.

Anyway, after racking my brain to put this reading into some sense, I think I have a couple of take away ideas. Not sure if they are correct though.

The reading talks about protocols that control network function on the internet. Digital computers are also emphasised on throughout the chapter. In his ‘diagram’ he refers often to a distributed network which is the web, technology is referred to as the computer and management is protocol. According to Galloway, the internet has far exceeded anyone’s original expectations in the way it has imbedded so thoroughly into our lives. It has now become “a global distributed network connecting billions of people around the world”.