CRWR 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Collaborative Consumption, Lyft, Airbnb
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New media has social implications, they are positive and negative o o o o o. New media impacts social inequality (it enables new access to information, patterns of access, availability, reflects other social inequalities. New media impacts community (new forms of community, of social interaction, are no longer limited by geography or space, online activity can also become an obstacle to real life interaction) New media impacts politics (we see new opportunities for online political engagement, online engagement can have a geographically isolating effect on face to face political activity) New media impacts organizations (we see the rise of flexible organizations and workplaces and more horizontal channels of communication, there are also new forms of internal surveillance as online communications are seen to be. New media impacts culture (new opportunities abound for users to become producers, hyper segmentation and i media can be a barrier to communication with those outside our circles; we see cultural fragmentation, dilution)
