The Use of Public Service Websites and Their Positives and negative Impacts on Individuals and Society

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The Use of Public Service Websites and Their Positives and negative Impacts on Individuals and Society

In this report I am going to discuss the impact of public service websites on individuals and society. I am going to state the service, how there websites are used and their positive and negative impacts. The websites range from the police to the NHS and I will also look at broadcasting and information services.

Broadcasting

My first source is broadcasting, the information available on the internet is on the BBC Iplayer. A positive impact of using a broadcasting service on the internet is that it is simple to use. It is simple to use due to its separate search bar, which allows you to just search for a certain show. Also another positive is that you can also view podcasts, radio shows and documentaries. The positive of this function is that you can keep up to date with any podcasts that you have missed or any radio shows such as the Chris moyals show. On the ITV player you can view arrange of things from past TV series to news documents. The positive impacts of having news documents on these websites are that it educates and supports the news’s RSS feeds. These all link to create a benefit of education. This helps a wide range of ages and people to do homework, research for jobs and just to keep up to date with the society or braking news from around the world.

However a negative impact of broadcasting websites on the Internet is that society will get less money from TV licence payers. This is due to not having to pay a TV licence. Baring in mind you need to own a TV licence in order to watch television legally. However you do not need one to watch TV programs streamed on the Internet this is due to the government having no law against this. Also another negative impact of having public service website with broadcasting on is that it may put the government into decline as the government may not receive enough tax from selling televisions. For example

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Information services

Another source is information services. For example a museum website like the centre for life uses functions such as what’s on section, a news section, and it also has a link on their website to Google maps which helps you navigate to the museum. A positive of the what’s on section is that it allows the user to choose what expeditions they go to see before they get there. Another positive is the link to Google maps. As a result of this function the people are able to find the museum easily in the built up are around ...

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