SOCY6670 Lecture Notes - Web 2.0, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Misogyny
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Digital natives consume more media than digital immigrants: the internet (pre, internet access is officially a human right, 78% of the u. s. is on the internet, 22% of u. s. households have no internet service provider and no plans to get one the poor can"t afford it the rural can"t get it; companies do not provide it the elderly don"t see the benefit of it, media conglomerates, six major studios produce and distribute 95% of all film (columbia, Downsides: gatekeeper idea (can all get together and choose what to produce and what to charge, etc. : homosexuality used to not be approved in media, like movies, ideal of female pleasure/orgasm (cid:224) taboo, susan crawford. The poor are undeserving: deserving poor people who are poor because of forces outside of their control (i. e. they got cancer, etc. , underserving poor people who just steal from us; they are doing something bad.
