Week 3 Topic 1: Selves and Others Online

What is ‘Open Architecture’?

I seem to have had some trouble posting my blogs this time round, i’m guessing this is just like the problem with commenting on posts last week and hopefully it won’t affect people commenting on my blog.

The term ‘open architecture’ can cleverly be applied to the internet as the net is a form of ‘open’ space online. Like architecture areas of the internet are constantly being built and constructed, with some areas continuing to develop and never finishing. Millions of people have helped to build the internet in to what it is today and will continue to help it develop. I personally think the term ‘open architecture’ is a good phrase to describe everything as ‘it does everything that it says on the tin’ so to speak. The word open suggests that absolutely anyone can participate in creating areas of the internet which is truer now than when the internet was first created. Architecture also implies that the internet is a medium that is continuing to be developed and improved every day.