CMN 2180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Submersed, Virtual Economy, Virtual Community

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2180
• Professor: Michael Strangelove

Document Summary

Emergent emerging emergents and systems and ecosystems where what defines these things is that you cant look at their individual parts. Marriage is based upon exclusivity - property relationships online communication as a culture system is changing the institution of marriage because it is ramping up infidelity. Its making it easier to access love, making it less risky to have an affair. The notion of marriage stays with us, but the norms and values around marriage, particularly around that area of property. And as crucial the behaviour on an individual and mass level is determined by property relationships. 41 - when the anthropologist looks at the people that are in these games, the avatars, the more you play the more you engage. Tv simply is depoliticizing. you combine a sense of right with a sense of community you get a politically active.