Globalisation and the digital world Flashcards
What did Mcluhan suggest about globalisation ?
Created global village where world seems to be becoming smaller place and interconnected through the use of new media technologies.
What did Boyle find about digitalisation ?
Allows for media Convergence which simply refers to the merging of different types of mass media such as Traditional Media, Print Media, Broadcast Media, New Media and the Internet as well as portable and highly interactive technologies through digital media platforms. This results in the combination of 3Cs, i.e. Communication, Computing and Content as all three are integrated through technology.
What did Carer find about Cyber city ?
Over a million registers in 2004. People investing just as much time in online relationships as their offline relationships.
What did Dijk say about virtual communities ?
Both identity and community increasingly shaped by virtual communities.
What did Castells say ?
Drew upon marxist ideas, moving away from trad focus on oil now focus on information.
What did Cornford and Robins say ?
Digital communication is a new form of open communication which can lead to greater inequality and the spread of capitalist ideas. They argue the people who own and create the digital media are capitalists who want to make profit and ideologically control the masses. They state that in the past the ruling class owned the means of production which led to a profit but now the ruling class have had to find another source; digital media.
What did Marxist Jenkins find ?
Most new forms of digital communication have developed from investment in beg media corporations- ownership is concentrated in the hands of few transnational corps.
What did Haraway say ?
A cyborg Manifesto” and felt that women should be included in all technological advances arguing that women cannot be essentialised and states that cyborgs will allow people to transcend gender restrictions on the internet. Therefore technological advances will allow women to create new forms of identity not bound by dominant patriarchal discourses about gender.
What did Arlaccki say ?
UN efforts to fight organised crime- exploitation is an undesirable effect of globalisation- not a priority by any country
What did Collins argue ?
That to understand society we need to understand chain of interaction – taking a micro sociological approach to social network sites such as Facebook. This will allow us to learn about how people see the world around them.
What did Bjorklund argue ?
States that autobiographies used to be common at the end of your life, but now we have turned to different platforms to create an ongoing autobiography which is continually manipulated and updated
What did Hart the postmodernist argue ?
That we rewrite our autobiographies on a daily basis to reflect norms and values of society, for example posting a selfie.
What did Case the postmodernist argue ?
Suggests online autobiographies can be problematic for teenagers who develop an online and on offline identity and that once something is made public it is hard to remove.
What did Foucault the postmodernist argue ?
Said that surveillance is the most effective way of actually regulating people and reducing crime in modern society.
A person who knows they are being watched is less likely to commit a crime.
What phrase did Turkle use ?
Alone together.
