COMM 2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Slacktivism, Commodification, Younow

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2102
• Professor: Ira Wagman

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Good way to think about the things jen boland is thinking about resources (fair wages, access to education) are unequally distributed and one"s experience of organized sports maybe be different if you"re male/ female or what social class you"re in or what you sexual orientation is or (like mentioned in this weeks reading) Impaired: we study inequality to try and identify those aspects of social life where those resources have been unequally distributed, communications: how that inequality is communicated, voice and speech, whose voice is heard and not heard, who decides how we are going to talk or present something, and who does not, there is a relationship between inequaltiy and communication we study inequality as a social phenomenon and we may be interested in it in certain ways, how inequality is track where those resources have in unequally distributed and how and what the basis that inequality takes place.