Critical Reading: The Cyberspace Handbook- Internet Forms and Ezines, by Jane Armstrong

This chapter out of the The Cyberspace Handbook is really accessible. It clearly tells the reader the different ways that the internet is used and the jobs different aspects of it try to do. This chapter has a focus on Ezines which are online Magazines.
Armstrong explains the functions of the homepage in very simple terms making it very easy for the reader to understand. She goes on to talk about different forms of the internet. The internet has grown hugely in the past couple of years since this piece was written causing it to become slightly out dated and there are now many more forms of the internet that are not even mentioned. People use the internet for all kinds of things now from dating sites, to gaming sites, and video streaming sites such as youtube.
Just like magazines Julia Armstrong explains how there are so called 'grrrl zines' (Ezines aimed at females.) As well as sites aimed at women there are also sites aimed at men, sites like FHM and Nuts. Online versions of male magazines.
I found this chapter really quite good and information is presented clearly and is very comprehensible. The information is slightly out dated, it would be very hard to write anything about the internet which will stay current for very long as it is something which is constantly evolving.