SOC356Y1 Chapter : Reading Notes
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Networked families: the triple revolution social network, internet and mobile, homes are no longer castles. Rather, they are bases for reaching out and networking: modern families= networked families, networked families: individual discretion, abundant opportunities for communication and flexibility in togetherness, less time physically together at home. Yet, thickly connected at anytime and anywhere by phones and the internet: household member as a semi-autonomous individual, with her/his own agenda, using a multitude of transportation and communication media to contact and coordinate with each other. Individual nature of technology and transmutation of households into networks: icts foster individual to individual contact, in addition, there are social and cultural changes. The single-car household had become a two-car household: still some togetherness. Tv and radio joined newspapers and news magazines (watching tv together). As the price of telephoning decreased, chats with distant friends and relatives increased, as did the number of phone lines in the household.
