Primary Research Questionnaire

 

                                           Blackboard Questionnaire 

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Demographic Questions:

1. What gender do you identify as? ( Category answer)

2. What age category do you find yourself in?  ( Category answer)

3. How would you describe your employment status?  ( Category answer)

4. What is your current marital status?  ( Category answer)

5. What is the highest level of education or degree that you achieved?  ( Category answer)

Project Theme Questions:

6. How often do you use Blackboard? ( Scale 1 of 5)

7. How satisfied are you with the in app experience? ( Scale 1 of 5)

8.  How satisfied are you with the ease of use of the app? ( Scale 1 of 5)

9. How satisfied are you with the security of the app? ( Scale 1 of 5)

10. How satisfied are you with the stability of the app? ( Scale 1 of 5)

11. What features do you find difficult to use or frustrating? ( Paragraph answer, Optional question)

12. What features would you like to see in Blackboard Application? ( Paragraph answer, Optional question)

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Essay Conclusion Post

It is difficult for us to fully understand or create an accurate description of Web3 since in present it is not yet clear what Web3 could be. “The popularity of blockchain and Web3 is undeniable, and we’re seeing people learn and collaborate with blockchain at an astronomical rate” (Gibson, 2022). Even though Web3 has a considerable amount of critics from those who do not share the same enthusiasm about this idea (White, 2022), we can assume that Web3 could be a revolutionary step into the evolution of Web. This future version could be promising for the users, and it could bring back control of our data and privacy.





References

Gibson, D., Donovan, R., Williams, C., Popper, B., May, E. and Popper, B., 2022. New data: Do developers think Web3 will build a better internet?. [online] Stack Overflow Blog. Available at: <https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/04/20/new-data-developers-web3/#:~:text=Regardless%20of%20hype%20cycles%20and,blockchain%20at%20an%20astronomical%20rate.> [Accessed 4 May 2022].

Gilbert, 2022. What is web3 and what might it mean for the UK economy? - Economics Observatory. [online] Economics Observatory. Available at: <https://www.economicsobservatory.com/what-is-web3-and-what-might-it-mean-for-the-uk-economy#:~:text=By%20using%20blockchain%20technology%20to,gatekeepers%20to%20extract%20economic%20rents.> [Accessed 4 May 2022].

Jin, L., 2022. The Web3 Renaissance: A Golden Age for Content. [online] Li.substack.com. Available at: <https://li.substack.com/p/the-web3-renaissance-a-golden-age?s=r> [Accessed 4 May 2022].

Kafka, 2022. Web3 is the future, or a scam, or both. [online] Vox. Available at: <https://www.vox.com/recode/22907072/web3-crypto-nft-bitcoin-metaverse> [Accessed 5 May 2022].

White, M., 2022. Inside one software engineer's effort to raise a red flag over Web3. [online] Fortune. Available at: <https://fortune.com/2022/03/31/cryptocurrency-web3-skepticism-molly-white/> [Accessed 4 May 2022].

Whiteboard, 2021. [online] Youtube.com. Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHhAEkG1y2U&list=PL8TQpCQNk6wGVmlZsUHzyRXAIBx2NgCdq&index=1&t=407s> [Accessed 5 May 2022].

Essay Body Post

Perhaps most promising aspect of Web3 is the distribution of power across internet providing a new model of business that will incline the power in favour of creators. Creators share of revenue generated by their content is disappointing in the current Web2 version with majority of content revenue going to giant platforms. Jin (2021) alludes to this in a recent article on NY Times that only 1.4% of musicians on Spotify share 90% of the streaming royalties. Twitch shares over half of its revenues with only the top 1% of all streamers and only 1% of podcasters enjoy the ad revenues in the podcasting space. These statistics raise concerns for the creators and many feels like their work is not rewarded. Web3 is showing interest in this aspect and developers work on solutions to solve these problems that creators face into Web2. “To me, we’re not in a period of expansion,” one musician told The New York Times, speaking about earnings from streams on Spotify” (Jin.2021). Web3 aims to overcome these limitations by adopting a new business ideology with the help of blockchains technology and smart contracts that promises to unlock a new economic opportunity and control that will lead to a new and improved era for creators and artists (Whiteboard Crypto, 2021).

Furthermore, Web2 it is generally seen as a version dominated by giant organizations such as Facebook, Spotify and Youtube, a centralized place where platforms have control and access over our interactions and data. In the recent years creators raised concerns regarding the control that platforms have over their content and the rewards offered for it. App developers are constrained to pay between 15-30% of their revenue to App Store and Play store in exchange for hosting and distribution. Web3 aims for a more peer-to-peer vision of the web, equity, offering all users a place into the system. This new version of the Web focuses on decentralization, and the way our data is being used (Gilbert, 2022). The supporters of Web3 claim that this process will be done with the help of four new systems: digital scarcity, supporting creators, programmable economic models, and novel platforms.

Essay Introduction Post

Web 3.0

Internet came a long way since it has been released first time. In present we are using a version of internet often referred as Web 2.0. This is a successor of its previous and original version of internet Web 1.0. In recent years the concept Web3 gained popularity. In present this version is a vague term, without clear borders or structure being mostly into a trial phase. A thesis supports the idea that Web1 was decentralized followed by Web2 which is centralized and eventually succeeded by Web3 decentralized again. It is expected to solve numerous existing problems, improve security, return control of data and power back to users. Web3 also has a numerous amount of critics from those who do not share enthusiasm towards this concept (Kafka, 2022). This essay will analyse some of the positive aspects of Web3 in terms of income generation and decentralization for internet users.

Diagram 2

On the top we can notice the architecture of a web application. We have client interface and server interface. Front end side it is responsible for app appearance while back-end side it is responsible the backbone of the application. 
 

Diagram 1

 

                                 

This diagram presents the critical steps met in the process of developing a web application. Each stage requires certain actions to be taken in order to proceed to next step. A successful app relies on many factors to be taken into consideration.