Globalisation Flashcards
Albrow
Globalisation is not experienced by everyone as those who live away from global impacts will not be affected by it
Giddens
- New riskiness
- Detraditionalisation
- Positive changes
- Expert systems
- Addiction or fundamentalism
Ritzer
- McDonaldisation means local cultures are disappearing under pressure predominantly American fast food restaurants.
- Cultural homogenisation means cultures become the same around the world
Carter
Investigated cyberspace where users formed strong friendships which they pursued offline too by meeting people face to face
Castells
People who are not included in the networked global society are excluded because they don’t have the same access to jobs, friends and information. It has become a form of social capital
Boyle
Western capitalist ideas have become dominant across all forms of media because digital forms of media developed most rapidly in the West. This is called media convergence
Boyle
Prosumers are producers and consumers of media content
Locke and Pascoe
Electronic communication can be liberating because marginalised groups can speak more freely and will be heard
McGonigal
Gaming can help young people deal with boredom and anger, learn to be creative, problem solve, work with others and deal with failure
Miller
Facebook helps people to maintain good relationships especially to compensate for geographical distance
Carr
The internet is making us stupid. He argues our attention spans are falling and we skim information
Turkle
- Alone together. People do not connect face to face anymore and spend time on digital devices.
- Goldilocks effect. People are used to things being just right online and want everything to be just right in the real world
Adorno
The media creates a false psychological need for consumer goods. This fuels capitalism
Haraven
Women can transcend their gender in order to focus on aspects of their identity, therefore avoiding sexual assumptions
Walters
Digital world creates a hypersexual culture as young women are sexualised and this creates an unrealistic expectation of women
Stoll
Anonymity online will erode social trust and indirect online communication is isolating
Holmes
He found that most of the people who people communicate with online are people they already know from face-to-face contacts
Bjorkland
He suggests that people enjoy recording their life events on Facebook and creating an identity online
Hart
Identity is created nowadays both online and offline
Cross
An issue with digital media is that people can narrow their media intake by choosing what they want to see and this means we see a less diverse view of the world and continue with our pre-existing beliefs
Jenkins
Those who have more power can choose their identity whereas as those with less power cannot
Katz and Sugiyama
Mobile phones affect young people’s identity as they are seen as a status symbols and a fashion statement
Palmer/Murray
Parents allow their children to be ‘babysat’ by the TV and this is detrimental to their development
Putnam
‘Bowling alone’ finding that people were less and less likely to be part of community groups and sports
LSE
1/3 of daily and weekly users aged 9-19 had received unwanted sexual or nasty comments online or by text. Only 7% of parents were aware and only 4% that their child had been bullied online
Kross and Verduyn
Followed a sample of 82 Facebook users and found that the more someone uses Facebook the less satisfied they are with their life
Youthnet
Young people who have grown up using social media are ‘digital natives’. They argue that the internet allows young people to be creative and empowers them. 45% said they felt happiest when online and 75% said they couldn’t live without the internet
Carter
Studied cybercity and found that people formed relationships that they would carry out face to face and it helps to break down boundaries of geography and relationships are being created between people of all sorts
Boellstorff
Ethnographic study in Second Life and supports Carter by saying virtual worlds can be a liberating place of interaction and complex relationships
Kraut
Gave 93 a PC and found that loneliness, depression and daily stress increased
Shaw and Gant
Found that online interactions decreased people’s loneliness and depression and increased self esteem and social support
Aditi Paul
Couples who met online were more likely to break up than if they met offline
Baudrillard
Signified and signifier.
The signifier is the symbol of picture which symbolises the signified
Martens and D’Haenens
Social classes were the most powerful in terms of digital divide. Lower classes had lower internet use and were more likely to use it for entertainment rather than knowledge and information
LSE
Children from middle class backgrounds had parents with better knowledge that could teach them how to use the internet for knowledge and lower class were more likely to be victims of the digital divide as their parents could not teach them
Kleeman
Men appear to have more power as only 13% of Wikipedia editors are women. Information therefore has a male bias
Haraway
Technology allows people to transcend their biology and create new identities. Cyborgs
Curran and Seaton
They see transcending gender as oppressing because this means there is pressure face to face so people use virtual worlds to escape this oppression
Ceislik and Pollack
Rise in media consumption has led to a risk society. They argue an anorexia subculture has emerged online which may be used by young women to try and take control of their uncertain lives
Berry
Old people have a low internet use
- Cost
- Uninterested
- Lack of skills
- Physical disability
