Theoretical explanations ( globalisation) Flashcards
Marxist critical
Garside
Cornford and Robins
The Snowdon Report
Garside
Marxist
The tyocial adult spends 8hrs 41 minuties on social media each day but only 8 hours 21 minutes asleep suggesting digital communication is a way of entertaining people which presents no real threat to the existing capitalist soctey
-Alienation
-Making people become more isolated from each other tot stop revolution
A distraction tool from there expolations
Cornford and Robins
Marxist
digital communications is just another way in which we can be ideologically controlled by capitalist who own and control this form of media. Social media makes us think we have freedom, democracy and equality it is just another capitalist can make money and control us.
The Snowdon Report
Marxist
The US and UK government had accessed personal conversations on digital media in the interest of national security, domestic spys examples , voicemails, browser history, intelligence agencies suggest that these are necessary and legal but many had mixed reaction.
Feminism critical
Arlaccki
Hughes
Schuster
Arlaccki
Feminism critical
organised expitation is one the most undesirable consequence of globalisation.
He states that there is not currently considered s property in any country.
40.3 million people in human trafficking
Physical, sexual emotional abuse
Commodification of women
Exersing men’s violence toward women ( porn)
Viewing violence/ revenge porn
Objectification of women
Hughes
Feminism critical
digital communication can help to reinforces the patriarchy though sex exploitation such as bride trafficking and sex tourism.
Digital communication means that information about where to buy ptoutises can occur and live sex shows can be viewed.
Schuster
Feminism critical
Online activism if often preserved for the young. And that due to the closed nature of some social networks feminait discussion if often ‘hidden’ from thoes who are not sufficiently networked.
May create a divide between young feminist and older activists as the new wave of feminst unwittingly hide their polyics from their older peers.
Okfeministing - only young feminsist
Feminist positive
Haraway
Nakuamura
Cochrane
Haraway
Feminist positive
image of cyborg in the films. Literature / computer games - women in the 80s were increasing involved in the sci-fi genres of these. This can be applied currently use of popular culture e.g avatar on xbox live, secondlife /cyber city - women can create more empowered and physically stronger verison of themselves including images of part human part machine. Women should be involved in the growth of technology.
Nakuamura
Feminist positive
used increasingly more by women for a range of different ethic and class backgrounds. Social media and digital communication can be used by women as a forum for support when they face distimination and inequality #metoo #heforshe Tedtalk - laura bates - everyday sexisim - forum for women to share experience of sexusal harassment
Cochrane
Feminist positive
Range of ways in which women have used digital communication in order challenge particle and seict atiidues she notes the following campaign ;
The girls Guides - introduced a campaigning and activism badge
Mumsnet.com - found that 59% of their users considered themselves feminst, double those who did not
Larasi - started campaign to address rasist and seixt attitudes in music vidoes and students campaigned for the banning of blurred lines