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Splinternet vs Spinternet - What's the difference?

splinternet | spinternet |

As nouns the difference between splinternet and spinternet

is that splinternet is a fragmented internet, or one of its separate parts while spinternet is the internet (and digital technologies) as used to influence public opinion while giving an impression of grassroots mobilisation.

splinternet

English

(wikipedia splinternet)

Noun

  • A fragmented internet, or one of its separate parts.
  • * 2012 , Rachel Pasqua, ?Noah Elkin, Mobile Marketing: An Hour a Day
    • Wise words from one of advertising's elder statesmen, who has seen the industry evolve from TV, radio, and print to today's splinternet .
  • * 2012 , Wayne D. Bowman, ?Ana Lucía Frega, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education (page 468)
    • Increasingly, writers refer to internets or splinternets as ways to describe an increasingly fragmented web in which power brokers create limited access to the Web and the curricular informality of connectivity is challenged by formality.

    See also

    * cyberbalkanization

    spinternet

    English

    Noun

  • The internet (and digital technologies) as used to influence public opinion while giving an impression of grassroots mobilisation.
  • *2011 , Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion , Public Affairs, page 117
    • the Spinternet — a Web with little censorship, but lots of spin and propaganda.
  • * (Reporters Without Borders)
    • In Iran, the Revolutionary Guards recently announced their ambition to build their own spinternet by launching 10,000 blogs for the Basij, a paramilitary force under the Guards.