Unit 3A - Globalisation

Question 1

Wiseman (1998)

Answer 1

The term ‘globalisation’ can be misused and misunderstood

Question 2

Cochrane and Pain (2000)

Answer 2

The emergence of a global economic and cultural system which is incorporating the people of the world int a single global society

Question 3

Giddens (1990)

Answer 3

Globalisation can be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away

Question 4

Carter (2005)

Answer 4

Cyber city
- Participant observation/ questionnaires/ semi-structured interviews
- People investing as much effort into cyber relationships as in other social spaces

Question 5

Boellstorff (2008)

Answer 5

‘Second Life’
- 2 years study; participant observations/ ethnographic
- Little control of virtual societies, crime now occurring

Question 6

Castells (2000)

Answer 6

Network Society
- We are now a society defined by information rather than industry, although still capitalist
- Power now rests in networks

Question 7

Boyle (2005)

Answer 7

Convergence comes through digital technology - one device for all media

Question 8

Turkle (2001)

Answer 8

1 - Social media has changed how younger people connect with one another
2 - Privacy has been sacrificed in exchange for safety
3 - Concerns that genuine, organic social interactions are degraded through constant exposure to illusory exchanges with artificial intelligence
4 - Interactions with robots pose serious threats to our ability to relate to one another properly

Question 9

Cornford & Robins (1990)

Answer 9

Digital media is owned by capitalists who want to:
1 - Make money
2 - Control the ideology of the masses
Media = power as it shapes the ideas of the population

Question 10

Garside

Answer 10

People spend more time online than asleep

Question 11

Cornford & Robins (1999)

Answer 11

Capitalism controls people subtly through monitoring their use of the internet