SOC 479 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: User-Generated Content, The Californian Ideology, Participatory Culture
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California dreaming: silicon valley, techno-utopianism, & the birth of. Depict computerization of society and digitalization of culture as inexorable, irreversible processes: cultural shift** knowledge on a particular subject transformations (not the other way around, eg. Claims that the technical capabilities of mobile devices are encouraging culture of inattention and distraction among young ppl changing how we read/think. More people are reading online (news sites, blogs, forums). More people are reading today in comparison to 20 years ago. (cid:498)immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy Digital technologies are seen as autonomous forces in their own right. All we can do as a society is adapt and adjust. According to td scientific and technological development drive cultural and social: eg. Google making us stupid ppl make less of an effort to have any. Nicholas car (author of one of the readings) believes the internet is that(cid:495)s rarely the case anymore.
