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| instruments of viewing, listening, and observing. They can slide our perceptions inward or outward. |
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In reference to scopic technologies:
- What happens when our perceptions are turned outward? |
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| - We expand our global horizons and see dramatic events around the world |
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In reference to scopic technologies:
- What happens when our perceptions are turned
inward? |
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- narcissim is encouraged
(it is easier for media outputs to turn our perceptions inward) |
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What are
Utopian predications about technology? |
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| technology is used to improve understanding, reduce misunderstandins, equilize power relationships, and bring world peace. |
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What are
Dystopian predictions about technology? |
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| it's a threat to our privacy, allows strangers easier access, will further cement inequality and power relations, can be used to spread propaganda, hate messages, and pornography |
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| The growing integration of economics and societies around the world |
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| What are 6 effects of GLOBALIZATION |
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1. Annihiliation of distance and time; compressed
2. Increase velocity of human affairs
3. Heightened possibilities for social interconnectedness
4. Increased possibilities for cultural imperialism
5. Importance of local and even national boundaries undermined
6. Increase possibilities for action between people where geographic distances seems immaterial to the social activity at hand |
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| seen as a form of colonization--the invasion of an indigenous people's culture by powerful foreign countries through the mass media--sense of alien wester ideas being imposed on people |
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| What is the result of the growing influence of global commercial media companies? |
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| the political and cultural power of public service media are eceding in Europe and many other areas |
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| What values do the global media promote? |
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1. Consumerism
2. The widom of "the market"
3. individualism
4. the inevitability of class inequality
5. that politics are unimportant and that there is little hope for organized social change (hollowing out of democracy) |
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a vast central network of high-speed telephone lines designed to link and carry computer information worldwide
(developed by Dwight Eisenhowr who was impressed with the Autobahn in Europe after WWII)
The Internet is a decentralized model--unlike telephones and telephone swtichboards, or TV affiliates and networks)--not like a spoke and a hub but rather like a net |
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| What are some examples of new media? |
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-Internet
-Cell phones
-Facebook
-PDAs |
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| What are 4 effects of new media? |
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1. Can flatten social heirarchies
2. Solidify and expand social networks
3. Promote 1-to-1 communication
4. Promote 1-to-many communication |
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Communications network, no central authority, not central technical hub that could be destroyed in the event of a nuclear attack or simlar disaster
- messages are broken up into backet and travels from place to place without having to return to or pass through a central point
-Grew out of Advanced Research Projects Agency which sponsored defense related research
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| What are 6 things that the new media are doing? |
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1. Speeding up the pace of life
2. New language terms
3. More and better access to News 24/7
4. Law/policy--the gov is struggling with what the internet means for the 1st amend.
5. Increased relationships with those at a distance
5. Commerce--increasing globalization of markets, increased access of ordinary citizens to financial information, day trading, greater ease of online shopping |
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| How do we know what we do? |
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