Globalisation and the digital world

Question 1

Globalisation

Answer 1

Process of communication + transportation developing worldwide. Influence of the internet has had significant impact

Question 2

Pos & neg of globalisation

Answer 2

(P) - able to contact people we previously couldn’t
- national boundaries less significant
(N) - in other parts of the world, remain marginalised/excluded

Question 3

Marxism and DC

Answer 3

DC not new, just a different version

Question 4

Defining globalisation

Answer 4

• people argue effects are pos + others neg
• Cochrane/pain’s definition is problematic
• cohen/kennedy’s definition is problematic
  (Suggests they occur at the same rate)

Question 5

Digital revolution

Answer 5

Rapid advances in technology/society is now based on tech + communication

Question 6

Cornford & Robins

Answer 6

-DC is a new form of democratic which pushes new ideas
-Ppl who own DC are capitalists, aim to control masses
-Power & money come from diff sources like media

Question 7

Categories of DC

Answer 7

• Development of existing media(online newspapers and satellite/cable tv)
• new media (phones, laptops, tablets)

Question 8

Marxist approach expanded

Answer 8

-Media convergence creates greater opportunities for marketing strategies enabling profit
-Media given platform for capitalism
-DC maintains inequalities and control

Question 9

Global village

Answer 9

World becomes smaller place as people able to create/maintain social relationships online (similar interests and concerns)

Question 10

Deregulation of media and DC

Answer 10

-Lack of regulation on DC
-Form of surveillance (Marxists)
-Private companies= few laws and moral responsibilities
-Lack of social control
-Vulnerable groups not protected

Question 11

Virtual communities

Answer 11

• Network of people who create community
• crosses social, geographical, political lines
• including social networks, chat rooms etc

Question 12

Screen time and DC

Answer 12

-Excessive time online (Garside)
-8hrs 41min online and 8hrs 21min asleep

Question 13

Cyber city:carter 2005

Answer 13

• Over 1mil users, realistic characteristics
• used qual methods/ found people invested same time online vs face to face

Question 14

DC and surveillance

Answer 14

-Concerns over monitoring
-Consumer habits collected (breadcrumbs)
-Threat to individual liberty
-Controlling from crime
-Challenge of consumer privacy

Question 15

Second life/beollstorff 2008

Answer 15

• Users create lives, marry, build homes etc
• studied via qual methods
• some problems of crime

Question 16

The snowden report

Answer 16

-Misuse of DC
-US/UK gov accessing personal info
-Claims dismissed, said to be legal (protection)

Question 17

Evaluation of Marxism

Answer 17

-Too pessimistic about role of DC

Question 18

Social networks

Answer 18

Include friendship groups, work + family networks
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Question 19

Digital communication (DC) employment

Answer 19

• applying/funding jobs
• work based relationships

Question 20

Networked global society

Answer 20

In post - industrial society, focus on information due to new communication

Question 21

Networks society/castells 2000

Answer 21

• change due to new info technologies
• communication reduces ‘space’ + distance
• networks central to society (where power rests)

Question 22

Media convergence

Answer 22

-range of waysinfo is combined + delivered
- rapid changes in the west = pushed western ideas/contributing to capitalism

Question 23

Boyle

Answer 23

• ‘digitalisation allows MC’ + separate media can be accessed by one device

Question 24

Big data

Answer 24

• today = change in how media is collected
• huge % of data on every area of life

Question 25

What is big data

Answer 25

Refers to large sets of data that can be analysed in many ways which reveals parts

Question 26

Features of big data

Answer 26

• volume
• velocity
• variety
• variability
• complexity

Question 27

Social media + globalisation

Answer 27

• Any digital platform for social networks (eg second life)
• first social media ‘cyworld’ (in 1999 Korea)
• best example is Facebook

Question 28

Social media statistics

Answer 28

• 15 mil users of twitter (uk) in 2014
• 31 mil users of fb (uk) in 2014
• Pinterest + ig fastest growing (2014), most users female

Question 29

Gender statistics on DC

Answer 29

-Pinterest and ig used mostly by females (70%)
-only 13% of Wikipedia contributors are female
-Linkedin has higher % of men

Question 30

Feminist theory on DC

Answer 30

-research focuses on exclusion in technology
-emphasise females role in DC

Question 31

Haraway/Cyborgs

Answer 31

-women should be included in tech
-women cannot be essentialised (seen as sharing something similar about what it means to be a woman)
-cyborgs= half machine/human, able to rise above gender-bound ideas
-tech advances allow new identities
-also looks at technology as a way women are empowered

Question 32

Feminist Nakamura

Answer 32

-ethnic minorities gaining online presence
-eg emotional support for victims of discrimination

Question 33

Exploitation of women

Answer 33

-risk of being sold, consumed, bought
-women/children in vulnerable position, their safety not prioritised
-internet has enabled illegal activities