IS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Geography, Thomas Friedman, Digital Revolution
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Very much urbanization: political and social rights, upward mobility, urbanization and new, organized labor worker unions as an example, social revolution change how we interact with one another. Digital revolution (digital age: approx. year 1960, shift to digital technologies, proliferation of computers, internet, communications, etc, democratization of information. Thomas friedman (the world is flat. : a dozen or so flatteners , the steroids wireless technology, social media, etc. Leveling the playing field, equal opportunity: theory seems to make sense. Is it more useful to think of the world as spiky . Can technology challenge political borders: social media can influence outside countries, media doesn"t cover things honestly, creating grievances against bad governments, outside support international sympathy. Social media and global activism: global solidarity, issue attention cycles. A big issue is popular in media for maybe a week or two and then dies down. Global commons: equal rights to earth"s resources, collective ideal.
