ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Network Society, Neoliberalism, Global City
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Call centers, capital flows from developed country to poor country, thus profits are maximized because labor is cheaper. New thing, because use to have to ship people from place to place to work, but now have individuals that want to work in the place and you just ship your money. Apart from tech that is advancing and changing, the social theory around that is how we try to understand and conceptualize ourselves as people around these new technologies. How do we think of our future now, vs the people that use to look at the future 40 yrs ago. How we transform our identity based on our perceptive on the technology (revolutionized on how we communicate and have contact) Less face to face contact, no need for hand shake for business deals. Thus, time no longer an issue, can simultaneously be in contact with someone in a different place and time zone. Time space sociality come into play here.
