SOCI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Michel Foucault, Tumblr, Cyberfeminism
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*** technology is far more than modern day electronics: technology inequality, digital divide, class based access variation, knowledge gap, possible emerging third divide, class-based tool variation (ex. Those taking an online class using a cell phone for access to internet versus those using a computer: digital technology usage. Is a natural extension of new and emerging technologies (example iphone upgrades) (ch8 pg 166: advertising, media globalization, media consolidation & oligopoly, technological diffusion, theoretical perspectives, functionalism, commercial function - (ex. Television advertising is a highly functional way to meet a market demographic where it lives. Sponsors can use the sophisticated data gathered by network and cable television companies regarding their viewers and target their advertising accordingly: entertainment function - an obvious manifest function of media is its entertainment value. In fact, we are socialized and resocialized by media throughout our whole lives.
