CMNS 210 Lecture Notes - Banlieue, Prosumer, K-Pop
6 Dec 2013
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Network society: spirit of our lives, how we live together, primary assumptions we carry, how our social, cultural, economic life has changed in the last approx 30 years (since 1979) Barney"s (canadian philosopher) network society: terms and ideas come together to inform and shape how we understand digital life. Network society is reflection of what used to be talked about as post-industrialism, picks up on its themes and concerns. Economic life that developed in the 1960s and 1970s: 1960s ground swell of social change and protest (civil rights, feminism, youth and young people, sexuality (gay/queer rights movement); in. Canada: quebec quiet revolution, flq crisis, nationalism in anglophone. Documents tensions resulting from how computers are re-shaping everyday life. Brings together developments from 1960s to 1980s and looks at them on a broad society level. Post-fordism: by early 1980s network society will be underwritten by a set of new social, cultural and economic conditions -->regulation school.
