CMNS 453 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Information Society, Jonathan Grudin, Vint Cerf
16 Jul 2016
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This field includes discussion on youth culture, democracy and activism, gaming, privacy, and surveillance. Section discusses the theories scholars are using to describe the emerging mobile society. Mobile infrastructures have been one of the fastest distributing communication technologies in history. Mobile technology growth has caused social change but it doesn"t do it on it"s own. We must identify the ways in which the mobile revolution has caused change in order to understand this. The debate of ontology highly occurs, ontology discusses our awareness of what exists in reality, past, present, and the future. Raine & wellman feel the majority of people have realized the shift in eras from industrial and more to a mobile era. The network effect basically stands for our need and the demand to constantly connect with the globalized information society. Print media corporations like the guardian were forced to adapt to digital products to stay afloat.
