MDSB61H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Virtual Community, Individuation
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Societies are held together by shared cultural norms and values. Therefore, how we shared our cultural norms and values matters. Media and networks are central to how we share cultural norms and values, and thus are central to processes of social formation, cohesion, and maintenance. As a fundamental feature of contemporary technological society and culture. An historical assessment of networks prepares us for an analysis of the social significance of contemporary networks. Draws attention to practices of mobility and the transformation of our experience of time and space. Raises questions of governance, infrastructure, technological assemblages, etc. Outrage is the new dynamic, it gets the press and gets people using their platform even more. Network sociality is not characterized by a separation but by a combination of both work and play. It is constructed on the grounds of communication and transport technology. (cid:863) (wittel, pg.
