CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peer Production, Social Theory, Participatory Culture

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

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Strong: interacting with them a lot, seriously i. e. mom, boyfriend. Can mobilize them to your advantage, things and people. Example: can look at past exams from other students, linked-in. Group is 2 or more connected people or things. Network is a system of interconnected people or things. A network can be within a group or a group can be within a network. Some shared concept of what it means to be in the group. A set of relations among members of a network; members may be individuals, organizations, or states. Weak: see them intermittently, possibly never at all i. e. ties that you can mobilize in a network. First electronic network was the telegraph followed by telephone, radio. Awareness of things going on around you, always available to reach. It is embedded within the social network, just one channel of it.