CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Computer Network, Participatory Culture, Collective Intelligence

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

Document Summary

Have a theme, frame of reference, basis for the comparison. Don"t say a is better than b. Network -> large interconnected system of people, things or people and things. Social network: a set of relations, among members of a network; members may be individuals, organizations or states. Strong ties/ weak ties (interacting with a lot ie. mom) (friend of a friend you"ve never met) Transport- 1950"s developing the highway systems, airlines. Computer network is part of social network (computer network is not the social network) Facebook is just one channel of the social network. Networked individualism- people increasingly networked as individuals rather than embedded in groups; individuals possess greater degree of autonomy in networks than they did in groups. Relational ties (what is the relationship between x and y) Network structural environment can"t drink in class. Social capital- value of your social relationships. Treats objects as part of social network. Relations are simultaneously material and semiotic (objects and concepts)