CDN221H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Online Game, Making Money
Document Summary
Internet as massive force in tunisian maintenance of democracy; not allowed to speak in person but allowed to discuss online; anonymity. The election is just a form of consultation; the internet redefines democracy in a way that allows people to discuss and consult; having their voice heard. Internet; turns capitalism over its head; producers are the consumers; demand reads its own supply. The more you post on facebook; for every minute you are on there, you are making money for them. Your leisure time that you put in becomes work and money for the owners of facebook; free labour. Proposing that social media is a completely contradictory economic model. Youtube makes more money than them, sort of free labour. Studies that show that information on wikipedia is just as good as information from the traditional encyclopedia but they produce it for nothing. Game industry as new media in the 21st century extending beyond the economic impact.
