DEVELOPMENTS IN DIGITAL FORMS OF COMMUNICATION

Question 1

What is the digital revolution?

Answer 1

All new forms of communication are created by computer technology.

Question 2

What are the two categories of new media?

Answer 2

1. Development of existing forms of media.

2. New forms of media.

Question 3

What is the global village?

Answer 3

Refers to the way that digital communication has led to an increasing volume of communication.

Question 4

What has the global village increased?

Answer 4

People’s ability to create and maintain social relationships both with people they know or people who live far away, that they only interact with online.

Question 5

Why has the global village made maintaining interests easier?

Answer 5

The ease with which people can make contact with others who share similar interests from across the world.

Question 6

What is a virtual community?

Answer 6

A social network of individuals who create an online community which may or may not reflect their offline lives.

Question 7

What do virtual communities allow people to share?

Answer 7

Interests and create and transform their identities.

Question 8

What are a couple of the forms of virtual communities?

Answer 8

• Online chat rooms.

- Social networks.

Question 9

What does Carter explore?

Answer 9

The ways that digital forms of communication are used in creating and maintaining relationships in an increasingly globalised context.

Question 10

What online community did Carter study?

Answer 10

A community she named ‘Cybercity’.

Question 11

What does Carter suggest about people in Cybercity?

Answer 11

They put in as much effort maintaining relationships online as they do offline.

Question 12

What is the name of Boellstorff’s study?

Answer 12

Second Life.

Question 13

What was the name of the community in Boellstorff’s study?

Answer 13

Ethnographia.

Question 14

Since 2007, what have Belgian police begun doing virtually? (Boellstorff)

Answer 14

‘Patrolling’ the virtual world of second life.

Question 15

Why have the Belgian police began patrolling this second life? (Boellstorff)

Answer 15

After a user reported being raped within a game and more recently reports have revealed prostitution and pornography has been occurring on the virtual world.

Question 16

What are social networks?

Answer 16

Socialising beyond face-to-face form in virtual networks.

Question 17

How have social networks affected/shaped communication?

Answer 17

Many people now form all types of different relationships online.

Question 18

What are the four different types of social networks people can have?

Answer 18

• Friendship groups.
• Work networks.
• Family networks.
• Networks linked to hobbies, interests or religion.

Question 19

What else do people rely on social networks for besides maintaining relationships?

Answer 19

Finding and applying for jobs.

Question 20

What does networked global society refer to?

Answer 20

The idea that in the post-industrial society, the focus is on information as a result of new forms of communication.

Question 21

What does having relationships or connections with people at a global level lead to?

Answer 21

Material rewards, known as social capital.

Question 22

How many types of digital communications come under topic 2?

Answer 22

8

Question 23

What are the 8 types of digital communication?

Answer 23

Digital Revolution, Global Village, Global Society/Network, Social Media, Virtual Communities, Digital social networks, Big data and media convergence.

Question 24

What example did Miller give for social media?

Answer 24

‘Cyworld’ started in South Korea in 1999.

Question 25

What does Miller claim social media enables?

Answer 25

An extension of already exiting weaker social relationships into more meaningful/developed relationships.

Question 26

What does Castells state about social media?

Answer 26

Greater access to information and the opportunity to engage with political and social issues more easily.