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| Explain how the Great Chain of Being and its hierarchy works and how it may lead to racism in America even today? |
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| God(Pure Being)--Angel/Demon--Man(Realm of Being)- Woman--Animals--Plants/Minerals(realm of becoming) Blacks considered dirty(bottom) |
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| What is the Rodney King's question? |
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| "Why can't we just get along" |
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| In Chapter Two("Privilege, Oppression, and Difference"), the author says that the "trouble that surrounds difference is really about privilege and power." What does he mean by this statement. |
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| Lack of power/privilege is driven by the differences between the two populations(Elites and Non-Elites). Men/Women White/Black Hetero/homo Disabled/Enabled |
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| If it is not fear of what we do not know or understand, then what, according to the author, is the driving factor underlying the divide of difference? |
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| "it's what we Think we do know". We've learned to think about them in ways that make for fear and trouble. |
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| What does he mean that difference is a "social construction"? |
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| Difference is created by Society, it is learned and taught. |
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| In what way is privilege linked to discrimination and prejudice? |
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| "discrimination helps maintain systems of privilege." "prejudice is a powerful force that provides fuel for discriminatory behavior and a rationale for justifying it. |
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| "healing imagery" is "problematic" because it assumes the "damage being done[relating to discrimination and prejudice] is primarily emotional." What is the real damage being done and who is it being done to? |
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| Implies that damage is primarily emotional. Privilege and oppression must be solved to promote "Racial healing" |
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Term
| Brett Atwood's Second Life. What is it? What does it provide is users? And what kinds of questions does it raise in terms of our course topic? |
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| Internet based society. Users can interact with other users. Can change gender, ethnicity, size, shape and aptitude. Questions of alter egos and personalities through the use of digi tech. |
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| What is Lisa Nakamura's basic argument about race and the internet in her essay, "Head-Hunting on the Internet?" |
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| The digital divide unequally allows access to the white population, so internet users are seen as "white." |
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| Explain homophily in terms of the essay "Social Diversity on Social Networks." How does it apply to the author's argument? |
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| "We choose to run with our own pack even in the online world." Social diversity in social networks probably has a better chance of succeeding online than offline since there is little fear or backlash. |
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| Does the author's(Social Diversity on Social networks) views of social media sustain Nakamura's premise? |
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| Both authors view media as provided by a vastly "white" population, who generally have easier access to produce media i.e. the internet. |
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| The term diversity takes on a different connotaion in Centola et al's "Social Network Dynamics Could Help Preserve Global Diversity." What is described and how does it differ from the definition provided us by Allan Johnson? |
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| Centola based on premise that it can provide a diverse network of individuals by allowing all people to have access to the internet. Johnson differs because people don't actually have equal access. |
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| How is Centola et al's notion of diversity rendered difficult to achieve in Second Life? |
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| Avatars are not widely diverse making it hard for users to create an image of themselves. |
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Term
| Why is sustained study of gender roles important to explore, according to the authors of "Video Game Characters...?" |
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| Characters are always changing as well as the gender groups that play the games. Boys used to be the primary demographic but now girls joining (Mrs. Pacman). There are very little studies about this subject. |
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| What are two of the three ways that females are portrayed in videogames, according Dill and Thill? |
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Sex objects
Large BREASTED
Damsels in distress |
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| What is one way males are portrayed in Videogames, according to Drill and Thrill? |
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| Who or what raped a woman in LambdaMOO? |
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| A avatar named Mr.Mungle later named Dr.Jest |
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| How did the rape occur? In other words, how was it possible for someone or something to rape another person in an online space? |
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| Mr.Mungle used his avatar to virtually rape another avatar. This world had no rules so Mungle made a code that forced another avatar to do something that its user did not tell it to do (voodoo doll). |
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| What does the gender roles in videogames and the rape in cyberspace relate to Nakamura's argument in "Head-Hunting?" |
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| The virtual world is uses a persons mind as the virtual body. So they feel violated when their avatar is virtually raped. |
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| Name one reason why media companies merge, according to Croteau and Hoynes. |
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| Merge to expand "Horizontally", this way they can be seen by a bigger part of media viewers. Globalization, Growth, Integration, Core of Ownership |
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