CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vince Offer, Marshall Mcluhan, Sexting

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Lecture 2- theorizing communication: basic overview of the dominant ways we will approach the study of information and communication technology (icts) Social approaches: digitization: increase reliance on software/code for the routine functioning of social life; all media are now just 1"s and 0"s. Necessary for everyday life stuff to work: globalization: interconnections, mobilities, exchange of ideas, tastes, lifestyles, values; rise of mncs (tncs) and ngos; new kinds of inequalities based around information access and literacy skills (digital divides) Identification: personal information economics; new forms of visibility and surveillance to mediate everyday life; new kinds of identities and social roles (e. g. citizen journalists); overall increasing importance of individuality. Millennials, and the particular challenges, obstacles, and social barriers they find themselves facing, stem from many simultaneous changes to various social orders (i. e. social structures such as the economy, government, family education, etc)