Digital communication: Marxist (critical)

Question 1

Garside
Which is more popular: messaging or talking?
What are digital communication and technologies just another form of?

Answer 1

Young people spend more time messaging on a range of devices and apps than talking on the phone
Digital communication and technologies are just another way in which we are controlled by capitalists

Question 2

Cornford and Robins
Digital communication is? (what type of control?)
What is social media presented as? (3) but what is it actually?
What is digital communication a threat to? why?
Example? (what kind of data is it described as?

Answer 2

Digital communication is another way in which we can be ideologically controlled by capitalists who own and control the media.
Social media is presented as freedom, democracy and equality but it is just another way for capitalists to control and make money.
Digital communication is a threat to freedom as information on us are collected eg face book = big data

Question 3

The Snowdon Report

Answer 3

Sureviellance - The US and British governments had accessed personal conversations on digital media in the interests of ‘national security’. Intelligence agencies suggest that these are necessary and legal but these actions have lead to mixed reactions from world leaders.