SOC 1101 Lecture 18: SOC1101- lec 18

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Willow Scobie

Document Summary

Transformation from mass audiences, mass messages, mass society to: Electronic networks of networks that ink people and information through computers and other digital devices. Use of the internet to publish social interactions among networked members of a community. Use applications that allow for exchange of user-generated information. Young people 8-18 years of age spend more than 50 hours each week with digital media. Social media has overtaken porn a the #1 activity on the web. Facebook 100 million users in 9 months. Ends up on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter. Youtube is the second largest search engine in the world. Based on analysis of 3 million tweets, gigabytes of youtube content, and thousands of blog posts. Study finds that social media played an important role in shaping political debates in arab soring. Particulary in egypte and tunisia, analysis shows that there were approximately 2,200-2,400 tweets per day about freedom and democracy from within these counties and from neighboring countries.