Class inequalities + Marxism

Question 1

Martens + D’Haenens

Answer 1

‘digital divide’
wc = use for entertainment
mc = use device to boost knowledge + research information ( educational purposes)
e.g. 79% wc own game console, 65% for higher social classes

Question 2

Digital technologies further capitalist exploitation and the maintenance of cultural hegemony domination - Cornford + Robins

Answer 2

argue digital communication another way we can be ideologically controlled by Capitalists by making us think we have freedom, democracy and inequality but another way of them making money

digital communication threatens individual freedom as info is collected about us through fb, e.g. Cambridge Analytica scandal

Question 2

Helsper - negative

Answer 2

found there is a digital underclass refers to cohort of people who can’t afford digital communication devices this lack of devices lead to disadvantages such as they face less social capital as a result

children from poor backgrounds become victims of a digital divide - parents lack skills to help use internet as they don’t have greater access to www at home

Question 3

Digital technologies further capitalist exploitation and the maintenance of cultural hegemony domination - Miliband

Answer 3

Media is the new opium of the people - people continue to doom scroll media controls us we don’t take interest in political issues

Question 4

application study - Boyle media convergence

Answer 4

media convergence has led to greater platform for shaping people’s ideas , encouraging them to accept Capitalism and not question inequalities they face - reinforces + maintain inequalities + ideologically control people in subtle ways

Question 5

Digital media provides new form of surveillance - Fuchs

Answer 5

states there’s been a big rise in ‘Big Data Capitalism’ where data has been commodified + surveillance occurs where companies collect, store, control and analyse ‘BIg Data’ of internet users

Question 6

Spyby positive

Answer 6

Western dominance of developing countries not necessarily happening - globalisation is happening in multiple directions.

Places that are within poorer parts of the world are actually spreading influence into ‘dominant’ countries.

fordism japan

Question 7

Kirkpatrick - positive

Answer 7

Facebook effect allows for people to create online movements that tackle elitist authoritarian regimes

e.g. BLM, extinction rebellion

Question 8

Granovetter - positive

Answer 8

weak ties related to employment strengthened by digital communication allows for social mobility