SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Julian Assange, Great Recession
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Popular culture in the 21st century: the contemporary mainstream. * marx looked at different socioeconomic relations and arrangements, interested in how they changed. * the volume of what we have accessible to us is impossible to consume. You would have to be a researcher instead of simply a consumer, however the way out is still standardized (ex. people still use google to nd this new information. Use of cellphones and facebook to spread ideas so quickly that they can"t be controlled by formal structures, leaked information that goes viral (ex. Doesn"t expose you to other things, limits what we can be exposed to, marketing things that we"ve already searched as opposed to different things, offering something similar. Some might use it as a utility to simply communicate, not for entertainment but for work, use it to create a virtual self and for popularity, friends aren"t really friends.
