CMNS 353 Study Guide - Final Guide: Online Dating Service, Social Change, Multiple Choice
1 Apr 2018
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Long answer: topic: social media as potentially bringing new forms of freedom or control, discuss at least three of: privacy/surveillance, personal relationships, labour, politics, development, provide argument and examples to support arguments, refer to readings. Changes in sociability need to look at these outcomes: telephone connected to re-wiring of social boundaries. Important to also talk about disparities of use: social media may make the digital divide worse, ownership of platform makes social media and digital divide worse. Intimate lives have been reshaped by technology: finding a date easily on your phone. Impact of new information technologies on work: people working from home are more productive but that is due to working more hours, more productive because getting emails constantly on weekends and evenings. Is it voluntary: may be able to say you accept terms, but there is no negotiation, cannot agree with certain parts of terms and agreement; all or nothing, obfuscating rhetoric, hiding things.
