year 13 theories

Question 1

David Gauntlett

Answer 1

multiple and fluid identities

Question 2

Gauntlet and Horsley

Answer 2

the promise of the web connect people and enable them to create, share and collaborate was there from the start but has only really taken off since around 2003 with the growth of web 2.0 tools which make this especially easy for people

Question 3

Giddens

Answer 3

the self is not something we were born with, and is not fixed. instead the self is reflexively made

Question 4

gauntlet web 2.0

Answer 4

he states that because of Web 2.0 we as audiences can become producers due too having websites such as youtube.
Web 2.0 has allowed us to create our own unique identity. The ability and freedom web 2.0’s allowed means it is far more acceptable to be different

Question 5

Henry Jenkins

Answer 5

the audience itself has become labelled as eyeballs

Question 6

Henry Jenkins participatory culture

Answer 6

culture in which private individuals (the public) do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producers (prosumers).

Question 7

Tim O’reilly

Answer 7

we media - collective intelligence of digital communities - crowdsourcing

Question 8

Marhall Mcluhan

Answer 8

global village

Question 9

Tim berners lee

Answer 9

created the first web browser and editor - HTML

“Web is a creative, democratic space”

Question 10

David gauntlet - Web 2.0 sharing , connecting…

Answer 10

sharing, connecting and being creative is accessible to everyone with the internet
“we are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online”

Question 11

Morozov - the net delusion

Answer 11

The internet, Morozov argues, is breeding a generation not of activists but of “slacktivists”, who think that clicking on a Facebook petition counts as a political act

Question 12

morozov - society

Answer 12

believes that the internet is causing a corrupt society where people argue and debate

Question 13

morozov cyber utopianism

Answer 13

Cyber-utopianism – the belief that online communication is in itself emancipatory, and that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor

Question 14

clay shirkey

Answer 14

everyone is a producer

Question 15

Eli Pariser - the filter bubble

Answer 15

“The danger of these filters is that you think you are getting a representative view of the world and you are really, really not, and you don’t know i

Question 16

what is a filter bubble

Answer 16

a state of intellectual isolation that can result from personalised searches when a website algorithm selectively guesses what information a user would like to see

Question 17

example of filter bubbles - us election

Answer 17

The surprising results of the U.S. presidential election in 2016 have been associated with the influence of social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook

Question 18

example of filter bubble - Egypt

Answer 18

Pariser asked several friends to search for the word “Egypt” on Google and send him the results. Comparing two of the friends’ first pages of results, while there was overlap between them on topics like news and travel, one friend’s results prominently included links to information on the then-ongoing Egyptian revolution of 2011

Question 19

According to Eli Pariser, those algorithms create

Answer 19

a unique universe of information for each of us … which fundamentally alters the way we encounter ideas and information.”

Question 20

echo chamber

Answer 20

a metaphorical description of a situation in which beliefs are amplified or reinforced by communication and repetition inside a closed system- seek out information which reinforces their existing views

Question 21

echo chamber - example of facebook

Answer 21

Facebook is more likely to suggest posts that are congruent with your standpoints; therefore there was mainly repetition of already stable standpoints instead of a diversity of opinions

Question 22

Livingston and Lunt

Answer 22

tvs educacional role has declined - more social and entertainment based

Question 23

Marx

Answer 23

in every age, the ideas of the ruling classes are the ruling ideas

Question 24

Dylan roof was not charged with

Answer 24

terrorism but instead of hate crimes. but it may be called terrorism if it was a muslin man in June 2015

Question 25

Sophie howards project - Epidermis - 12 women are shown to be barefaced - wanting to celebrate women with common skin problems

Answer 25

With Epidermis, she hopes to make our perception of beauty less homogenised.

Question 26

14thmay - boarding school

Answer 26

A boarding school has apologised after a group of boys “blacked up” and dressed as slaves for a photograph.