SOC384H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sexting, Sousveillance, Tumblr
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Is the relationship between sender and receiver mediated by content: sender produces content that is sent to the receiver, newspapers, magazines, movies, tv, radios, books, music, taking about both news and entertainment, closed institutions that acted as the sender; very limited people in the population chose to be senders, this limit also applies to receivers, when the internet was first created, it acted as a form of traditional mass media, new media, institutions that are accessible t the general public, allows them to play the role of sender or receiver. 79% of american adults use the internet, 47% use social media: pew internet and american life project, average age of social media user is 38, of social media users, 56% are female, of social media users, 92% use facebook in combination with another site, facebook users are more trusting than others, have 9% more close ties in their real world social networks, and get more social support than non users.
