Week 12 Slides: The Dilemma With Social Media

Question 1

5 changes due to social media

Answer 1

1. Choice -
2. Conversation - you are able to talk to people outside your normal realm of conversation (family, friends, peers)
3. Curation - everything we share on social media is stored, giving users another reason to stay on the app so they can look at past memories
4. Creation - allows you to become a part of this new economy where you can contribute your content
5. Collaboration - you are able to work with someone to produce or create content

Question 2

Social media bubble

Answer 2

An environment in which one’s exposure to news, entertainment, social media, etc., represents only one ideological or cultural perspective and excludes or misrepresents other points of view.

Question 3

What is alternative media alternative from?

Answer 3

They are media sources that are alternative to the dominant types of media in terms of their content, production, or distribution.

Question 4

Sub-activism

Answer 4

Participation of politically disenfranchised groups in politics

• non-traditional forms of political activism

Question 5

Globalisation

Answer 5

Refers to a complex of interconnecting structural and cultural forces that aid the spread of ideas and technologies, and influence the social and economic organization of societies.

Question 6

Some features of globalisation

Answer 6

• Growing level of connectedness between individuals, societies, and nation states at a global level
• reduction in the distance between individuals, societies, and nation states in terms of both time and space facilitated by technological developments
• increased awareness of global phenomena in people’s lives
• assumes a decrease in the significance of other kinds of identities such as ethnic, local, regional, or national in people’s everyday lives
• increase possibility of greater reflexibility
• Human beings become more critical of their immediate environment
• compares people’s experiences with those living in other societies

Question 7

More features of globalisation

Answer 7

• Continued dominance of the global media industry
• Increasingly deregulated environment
• greater amount of homogenization and standardization
• uneven flow of information
• Promotion of the ideology of consumerism