Globalisation Flashcards
Ofcom Report 2014
The elderly dont know how to use the internet
Youth are immature detrimental impact to future
42% of 65+ are online - most are left behind
Garside 2014
Youth are digital natives
The can use an Ipad before they can talk
Elderly lose contact with youth
Boyle 2007
Digital Generation divide
Elderly use technologies less - youth relient on technologies
Youth:
Teach the elderly
Have new skills for work
Alternative ways of comunication
Berry 2011
Elderly have psycholoical barriers to the intetnet
79% of householed bellow state pention age (SPA) gave internet access
37% of households above SPA have it
Palmer - Toxic Parenting
Rely on technology to occupy children
Isolation - cant relate face to face
Postman
Internet exposes children to adult content
sex & violence
Positives of Age Inequality
Clarke & Warren - Active aging - learing how to use technology
Shaw & Gant - prevent lonelyness
Boyle - Youth communication enhansing relationships
Mertens & D’Haenens 2010
Digital divide
Lower Social Class (LSC) use the internet less - 81% comp 94%
LSC used technology for entertainment - MC used for infomation
FOOTNOTE not a marxist
Helsper
Digital Underclass
group of people who can’t afford digital comunication divieses -> disadvantaged & face less social capital
Governmnet plans to digital by defult = cant afford to access society
FOOTNOTE not a marxist
Marxist: Digital technologies further capitalist exploitation & the maintaincne of cultural hegemony / ideological control
Apple: Market Value = $926.9 billion
Samsung: Market Value = $325.9 billion
DT further capitalist exploitation & maintain ideological control
Cornford & Robins - Cambridge Analytica Scandle
Another way we are controled by capiatlists
We are given the illusion of choise & freedom
DT threatens individual freedom - infomation is collected on us through sites i.e. facebook
Cambridge Analytica (CA) Scandle:
2010 - personal data belonging to FB users was collected without consent by CA & used for political advertising
DT further capitalist exploitation & maintain ideological control
Millaband
Media is the opium of the people
- people are passive resepters of media messages
- Consume content created by ruling class passing on ruling class ideology to keep faluse class consiouness & numbing to reality
DT further capitalist exploitation & maintain ideological control
Althusa
Media is the Ideoloical state apperatus
Media is a tool used by Ruling class to spread ruling class ideas
Marxist: Digital media provides new form of sevalence
Selling data
Governemnt / police can track devises
Marxist: Digital media provides new form of sevalence
Fuchs
Big Data Capitalism - companies buying & selling data to be analised
Global Survalance System: monotor comunication in real time (we are being watched
Marxist: Digital media provides new form of sevalence
Snowdon report
US & British government were tracking & accessing privet messages
Lead to contrversy (globaly) - vied it was wrong to ‘spy’ on citizens
Argued it was for the inrest of personal saftey
Positivi impacted on Class inequality
Kirkpartic: Facebook affect: allows people to create online movements tackling authoritarian regimes
Granovetta: weakties online related to employemnt strengthened (linkedin)
Spybey: Its not just the west dominated globalisation
Li & Kirkup 2007
gender & the use of computers, - attitudes towards digital communications of Chinese & British students.
- Men in both countries were more likely than women to use email & chat rooms & played more computer games
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- Men in both countries were more self-confident about their computer skills & more likely to express the opinion that using computers was a male activity & skill.
- Men are more likely to get more from
digital communication due to socialisation into using devices, while women are socialised in a way that leads to them feeling they lack skills.
Globalisation & digital forms of communication further patriarchal ideology & expolitation of women
- Promoting physical / sexual / emotional abuse
- Commidification of women
- Eroticising mens violence towards women
- Objectification of women
- Viewing violence against women
Arlaccki 1997
Organised Exploitation is one of the most undesirable consequences of globalisation.
Argued this can take the form of sexual slavery, people exploited in the sex industry through forced labour, domestic servitude, and forced criminal activity. - often unreported (dark figuer)
Hughes 1999
DIgital communication reproduced patriarchy with sex exploytation (bride trafficing sex torism - countries where prostitution have little risk)
Infomation on where to find prostitutes & live sex shows can be viewed (not always consentual)
Butler
Ideas applied to digital media & globalisation
Gender Discourses been used to embed ideas of women’s inferiority throughout history.
Patriarchal ideology has found its place in online content, to spread misogynistic attitudes. (Facebook ‘Slap a Slut Day’)
British women can be oppressed by unachievable standards in online advertisements & the inherent misogyny in pornography.
Example of Butler
Andrew Tate
- Women belong in the home, can’t drice and are a mans property
Castelles
Global Criminal Economy - woth over £1 trillion per annum - incudes trafficing women & children
