SOC 3116 Study Guide - Final Guide: Digital Divide, Identity Management, Social Capital
Monday, April 11, 2016
Technologies World and Societies
Final class
-Technology and Inequality
-The skills divide
•type of access, do I know what Im doing, what im looking for.
•is the information fraudulent or accurate
-Social media divide
•identity management
•consequences of that management or mismanagement
•how our social behaviour is dictated when we are behind the computer
•exam question on this
•does it change our identity to let our friends post things on our page
-Global digital divide
-World systems theory
•core and periphery
•production vs information based economies
-critical perspectives of the digital divide
-public sphere
•any physical space where people gather
•Habermas, lots of key ideas on democracy, encouraged to be familiar with it
•spiral of silence (being quiet when the prof asks a question because of fear of
rejection from peers)
-Internet as a tool of political engagement
•digital revolution
•when does the digital revolution become criminal?
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Document Summary
The skills divide: type of access, do i know what im doing, what im looking for, is the information fraudulent or accurate. World systems theory: core and periphery, production vs information based economies. Technology-mediated social relationships: how do we de ne a friend, is the friend on facebook really your friend in real life. Monday, april 11, 2016: do more friends on facebook represent more capital. The impact of the telephone on social relationships: rates of acceptance or rejection of technology. Impact of the internet on social relationships: question about romance, sustaining longterm relationships with the internet. What is community: good foundational theory, need to know and understand, don"t need to memorize authors, know the concepts. Community lost: 3 key perspectives, dystopian. Community liberated: part of who we are, so let"s gure out how to make the best of it (that kind perspective)