3.1 Postmodernism & Digital media

Question 1

do postmodernists focus on positive or negatives?

Answer 1

both

Question 2

what do postmodernists see identity as?

Answer 2

a project
we pick n mix
traditional identities have fragmented and lost meaning

Question 3

(P) what did Hart say we are no longer constrained by through digital media?

Answer 3

ascribed statuses

digital media provides a range of ways to construct our identity

Question 4

(P) what did Hart say about facebook?

Answer 4

form of autobiography - we write our stories daily and create our identities continually online and offline building networks

Question 5

(P) what form of sociology did Collins say we could use on facebook? and to see what?

Answer 5

Micro sociology

to see interactions, how people construct their identities online and how they see the world around them

Question 6

(P) how is digital media liberating?

Answer 6

we are free to connect with others outside our ascribed statuses

Question 7

(P) what did Hart and Nakamura say digital media allows us to do?

Answer 7

communicate with people of different languages, cultures and create a global village
social networks unconstrained by location or ascribed status

Question 8

(P) Hart and Nakamura - the ability to communicate with many different people enhances what?

Answer 8

our social capital

Question 9

what is social capital?

Answer 9

power and opportunities through our contacts/ who we know

Question 10

(P) what does miller’s global social media impact study aim to study?

Answer 10

the use and consequences of social media for people around the world using ethnographic methods

Question 11

(P) in Miller’s global social media study what is he looking at?

Answer 11

social medias impact on family, gender roles, relationships and friendships
how social media is used in education, the state, etc.

Question 12

(N) what did Case say conflicts? explain.

Answer 12

our online and offline selves

hard to remove past mistakes/posts and online info can cause issues in our relationships and professional lives

Question 13

(N) What else did Case talk about?

Answer 13

lack of privacy

Question 14

(N) what did Case mean when talking about lack of privacy?

Answer 14

private online info is easily kept & shared

the online footprint we create can follow us and cause trouble in our lives

Question 15

(N) Case said our lives are what?

Answer 15

documented

Question 16

(N) online people have the ability to do what to their true identity? what impact can this have?

Answer 16

mask their true identity

child online exploitation

Question 17

(N) why is Elliot pessimistic about the fragmentation of identity?

Answer 17

we lack a coherent and secure sense of self

Question 18

(N) what effect can developing different communication patterns e.g. snapchat, have on children?

Answer 18

wider communication

cyberbullying, sexual abuse, reinforcing gender expectations

Question 19

(N) What did palmer talk about?

Answer 19

toxic childhood

Question 20

(N) what does toxic childhood involve?

Answer 20

technology ruining childhood - children being neglected and baby sat by digital media

Question 21

(N) What did postman say in relation to childhood?

Answer 21

childhood is disappearing

Question 22

(N) How is childhood disappearing?

Answer 22

children exposed to adult content through digital media

Question 23

(N) When discussing the effect of digital media on relationships what did Turkle say we are increasingly becoming?

Answer 23

alone together

Question 24

(N) what did Turkle mean by alone together?

Answer 24

we can be physically with someone but be so engrossed in our phones we aren’t communicating

Question 25

(N) what did Elliot say communication is becoming?

Answer 25

increasingly superficial, relationships are lacking depth

Question 26

(N) how is their inequality in digital media?

Answer 26

digital divide

lack of digital literacy amongst elderly

Question 27

(N) what did Foulcault say about surveillance?

Answer 27

it is a dominant theme in society and we control and monitor ourselves because we are aware we are being watched