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Globalisation and the digital world Flashcards

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Globalisation

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Process of communication + transportation developing worldwide. Influence of the internet has had significant impact

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Pos & neg of globalisation

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(P) - able to contact people we previously couldn’t
- national boundaries less significant
(N) - in other parts of the world, remain marginalised/excluded

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Marxism and DC

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DC not new, just a different version

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Defining globalisation

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  • people argue effects are pos + others neg
  • Cochrane/pain’s definition is problematic
  • cohen/kennedy’s definition is problematic
    (Suggests they occur at the same rate)
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Digital revolution

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Rapid advances in technology/society is now based on tech + communication

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Cornford & Robins

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-DC is a new form of democratic which pushes new ideas
-Ppl who own DC are capitalists, aim to control masses
-Power & money come from diff sources like media

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Categories of DC

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  • Development of existing media(online newspapers and satellite/cable tv)
  • new media (phones, laptops, tablets)
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Marxist approach expanded

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-Media convergence creates greater opportunities for marketing strategies enabling profit
-Media given platform for capitalism
-DC maintains inequalities and control

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Global village

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World becomes smaller place as people able to create/maintain social relationships online (similar interests and concerns)

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Deregulation of media and DC

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-Lack of regulation on DC
-Form of surveillance (Marxists)
-Private companies= few laws and moral responsibilities
-Lack of social control
-Vulnerable groups not protected

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Virtual communities

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  • Network of people who create community
  • crosses social, geographical, political lines
  • including social networks, chat rooms etc
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Screen time and DC

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-Excessive time online (Garside)
-8hrs 41min online and 8hrs 21min asleep

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Cyber city:carter 2005

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  • Over 1mil users, realistic characteristics
  • used qual methods/ found people invested same time online vs face to face
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DC and surveillance

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-Concerns over monitoring
-Consumer habits collected (breadcrumbs)
-Threat to individual liberty
-Controlling from crime
-Challenge of consumer privacy

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Second life/beollstorff 2008

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  • Users create lives, marry, build homes etc
  • studied via qual methods
  • some problems of crime
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The snowden report

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-Misuse of DC
-US/UK gov accessing personal info
-Claims dismissed, said to be legal (protection)

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Evaluation of Marxism

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-Too pessimistic about role of DC

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Social networks

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Include friendship groups, work + family networks
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Digital communication (DC) employment

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  • applying/funding jobs
  • work based relationships
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Networked global society

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In post - industrial society, focus on information due to new communication

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Networks society/castells 2000

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  • change due to new info technologies
  • communication reduces ‘space’ + distance
  • networks central to society (where power rests)
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Media convergence

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-range of waysinfo is combined + delivered
- rapid changes in the west = pushed western ideas/contributing to capitalism

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Boyle

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  • ‘digitalisation allows MC’ + separate media can be accessed by one device
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Big data

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  • today = change in how media is collected
  • huge % of data on every area of life
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What is big data

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Refers to large sets of data that can be analysed in many ways which reveals parts

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Features of big data

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  • volume
  • velocity
  • variety
  • variability
  • complexity
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Social media + globalisation

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  • Any digital platform for social networks (eg second life)
  • first social media ‘cyworld’ (in 1999 Korea)
  • best example is Facebook
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Social media statistics

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  • 15 mil users of twitter (uk) in 2014
  • 31 mil users of fb (uk) in 2014
  • Pinterest + ig fastest growing (2014), most users female
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Gender statistics on DC

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-Pinterest and ig used mostly by females (70%)
-only 13% of Wikipedia contributors are female
-Linkedin has higher % of men

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Feminist theory on DC

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-research focuses on exclusion in technology
-emphasise females role in DC

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Haraway/Cyborgs

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-women should be included in tech
-women cannot be essentialised (seen as sharing something similar about what it means to be a woman)
-cyborgs= half machine/human, able to rise above gender-bound ideas
-tech advances allow new identities
-also looks at technology as a way women are empowered

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Feminist Nakamura

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-ethnic minorities gaining online presence
-eg emotional support for victims of discrimination

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Exploitation of women

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-risk of being sold, consumed, bought
-women/children in vulnerable position, their safety not prioritised
-internet has enabled illegal activities

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