SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Prosumer, Public Good, Neoliberalism
11 Jun 2018
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March 12th, 2018
The internet crime in the media
Is the internet a public good or private asset?
Ieted i the late ’s
“ae tie as deegulatio of idusty’s
Neoliberal economics taking hold
Internet born in the context of neoliberalism which has really impacted how it works
Treat it as a private asset
Its not free or a public space
Park
Library
Iteet oe like the all you thik its puli ut it’s ey piate
Prosumer: Treated like a consumer but producing content for the company
When it as eated i ’s ould hae ee oe puli
Net neutrality: anything you search should come up at same speed, without net neutrality it
means that bigger media companies can pay to have their stuff pop up first
Highly privatized space
Public good
➢
Private asset
An alternative history of Microsoft
➢ Alternative computing is entirely a public concept not created from bill gates
➢ Before he was even born technological advancements led to ibm
➢ All these advancements publically funded before gates
➢ Even ealie this teh as fouded fo ealie tehology fo ’s
➢ He was just at the right time and place but he was on the foundation of a whole century
of public investment in technology
➢ Or is it a societal concept
➢ Not public asset when we see who has acess to it
➢ Something divide:
➢ 87% Canadian households were connected to the internet
➢ but the distinctions are based on geography (rural less connected) and classed (pay
providers)
highly privatized space by looking at the monopoly that google has
google it
in 2006 It was the most visited site in the world
knows content of emails, credit card, health info, taste in music
google otto: do’t e eil
manage our news
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