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Postmodernist: Hart

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  • We create and recreate our identities through ongoing, online autobiography
  • Status updates are culturally significant by expressing changing feelings in social contexts. Therefore digital communication is important to understand identity
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Postmodernist: Collins

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We construct new identities through social networking sites

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Marxist explanation of digital communication

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Digital communication is a control mechanism, which allows the Bourgeoisie to exploit the proletariat

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Postmodernist: Case

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Social media updates leave audit trails, hard to remove or edit. This leads to tension, conflict and privacy issues

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Berry (age)

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  • Only 37% above pension age have internet access. Found that this is due to physiological rather than financial barriers (new designs implemented with simpler formats, finder day)
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London School of Economics (age)

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1/3 daily used ages 9-19 received unwanted sexual/nasty comments online

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Palmer (age)

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Parents use media as an electronic babysitter. Children are susceptibly to adult work (toxic childhood)

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Carr (digital social world/age)

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Is google making us stupid? Failing attention spans, expecting immediate gratification, youth can’t read in depth

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Boyle (age)

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Each generation has greater reliance on digital media - ‘digital generational divide’

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Youthnet - happiness

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The percentage of young people who state they’re happiest online is 45%

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Youthnet - lifestyle

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75% of young people say they couldn’t live without the internet

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Youthnet - communication

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86% of young people love online communication

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Wiseman (globalisation)

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Globalisation, as a word is often misused or misunderstood. It needs careful consideration in a sociological context

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Cochraine and Pain (globalisation)

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Defined globalisation as the emergence of global, economic and cultural systems, the world becomes one global society

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Stoll (digital social world)

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Abuse and anonymity online is eroding trust. Social’s media is isolating and superficial

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Beollstorff (digital social world)

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  • Virtual world- second life
  • He created an avatar and followed users exploring issues of gender, race etc and found that there is little regulation of online behaviour. - Belgian police had to patrol this site due to reports to ‘online rape’
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Zhao (digital social world)

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Activities which connect create social ties (email)

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Bjorkland (digital social world)

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People enjoy recording life events online, creating and reinforcing identity

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Holmes (digital social world)

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Most people online know each other face to face

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Turkle (digital social world)

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Digital communication creates false connectedness and control. ‘Alone together’ idolised version of ourselves online leads to vulnerable society and shut of from others

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Miller (digital social world)

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Facebook helps to maintain relationships, especially long distance, but also makes promiscuous behaviour more visible and can break relationships

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Howard (conflict and change)

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Internet plays a key role in Christian fundamentalist groups. New online religious movement, common ideology with no institution or central leader

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Radio free Europe (conflict and change)

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Taliban once banned digital communication ‘un-islamic’, now used as terrorist propaganda

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Weismann (conflict and change)

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Digital communication simple and cheap venue to spread terrorist ideology. 19998, dozen terrorist sites, now 7000+

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Kings College London (conflict and change)

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Radicalisation usually requires potential terrorists to come into contact with real world social group first

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Kirkpatrick (conflict and change)

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Facebook effect- this site mobilised 10 million people in street demonstrations which curbed violence and kidnapping by columbian forces. Tool for social movement and offers voice (link to Weber and party situation)

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Glott and Ghosh (gender)

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  • Only 13% of woman contribute to wikipedia
  • Linkedin more male than female users
  • Females account for 70% of pinterest and instagram
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McGonigal (gender)

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Average 21 year old man, 10,000 hours of gaming, helps with boredom, anger teamwork and problem solving

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Walters (gender)

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Woman sexualised in the media and gaming thus unrealistic expectations for young men

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Nakamura (gender)

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Digital communication offers woman practical and emotional support e.g. everyday sexism project

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Arlaccki (gender)

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Exploitation on a global scale felt more by women who hold less power, for example, human trafficking, networks organised through the ‘dark web’

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Adorno (gender)

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Media creates false need for consumer goods- feeling capitalism, leaving with class exploitation, alienation

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Conford and Robins (gender)

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  • Media new means of surveillance- use of personal information seen as acceptable
  • Digital communication portrays as democratic open communication but owned by capitalism making profit and ideologically control masses
  • In the past owned means of production, now own technology
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Merttens and D’Haenens (class)

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  • There is a digital divide.
  • Internet use (81% working class, 94% middle class)
  • Working class entertainment, middle knowledge and information
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Garside (gender)

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Typical adults spend over 8 hours consuming media, acts as entertainment and distracts from capitalism

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