CMNS 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Net Neutrality In The United States, Technological Determinism, Net Neutrality
23 Jan 2018
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Week (cid:1008): so(cid:272)ial (cid:373)edia a(cid:374)d the pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) sphere. Think about public healthcare (terry fox ran because he believed healthcare to be a public good), communication infrastructure (airlines, railways ), etc. Review: (phase 1) we don"t care what you had for breakfast; (phase 2) alternative media ashton kutcher verses cnn large media company lost to an individual start up; (phase 3) global political communication the. Arab spring, where the government shut off the internet during political protest the internet is powerful. Social media is a technical and cultural shift, from passive consumption to active engagement, from information poor and hoarding to sharing. Impression of how we are like is managed by us; space and place signals to us how to be; but when cyberspace flattens out this space and place; we become open. Bowling alone by robert d. putnam: the collapse and revival of the american community; the loss of place-based communication.
