COMM 2102 Lecture Notes - Peer Pressure, Collective Intelligence, Yelp
6 May 2012
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Overarching theme, the role of forms of technology and communication in determining our participation in politics and in determining how we decide. Participation= how we decide to do something. Who gets to decide is a way of thinking about participation. All of this has to do with the discussion of politics, we have come to see lots of things as being political. Kony 2012 film, 20 years ago this film would not reach 73 million people over a week, this is due to the proliferation of media producers. Politics, the arts of government and how we govern over the people, we think of this as an exercise of power. From 17th to 19th century we call this the transition period from traditional to modern society. Due to: development of nations and capitalism, decline of monarchy and religion and rise of secularism (separation of church and state) Role of politics is to protect the common wealth.
