SOC356Y1 Lecture 8: Sociology of Technology Exam NotesOctober 18.docx
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Social ties people enjoy today are more abundant and more easily nourished by contact through new technologies. Helps to manage a larger more diverse set of relationships (as opposed to socially isolating individuals). Social media allows people to tell stories, draw an audience, and often gain social assistance when they are in need. Using social media to make connections with others when something common is found. Social networks are large and diversified thanks to the way people use technology. The changing social environment is adding to people"s capacity and willingness to exploit more remote relationships, in both the physical and emotional senses of the word. People are maintaining relations outside of cities, past the workplace. Pew internet surveys have found that more than 2 thirds of adults and three-quarters of teenagers have created content online. Organization of work is more spatially distributed (away from mass factory life).
