CRIM 2653 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reddit, Emerging Markets, Hate Speech
24 Jul 2020
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Digital methods: digital methods: online & digital technologies to collect & analyze data, embedded in daily life, growth of user participation. Interactions & traces easy to communicate with people via digital methods who live far away. Digital divide the idea that no everyone has internet access (inequality of access). Digital divide (canada: 82% had broadband internet in 2014, people who are older, low income, remote, northern & rural areas, aboriginal communities ex. internet access in nunavut: costly & slow, accessible but expensive. Internet a human right: crtc: necessary to quality of life canadian government has worked to make at low speed internet available to everyone. The new goal is make high-speed internet available to everyone: universal broadband access, ambitious goal, high-cost area. Interviews & surveys: low cost & broad simple, hard-to-reach populations via the internet, safe space on sensitive issues no need to have to interview face to face.
