Concepts

Question 1

Global village
2 definitions for the digital revolution?
Studies

Answer 1

Digital revolution: extension of new media platforms such as online news and demand television. New forms of platforms such as mobile phones, laptops and tablets allowing for easier communication

Our world in data: Evidence for a digital global revolution eg in April of 2017 there were 3.81 billion people who were internet users (approximately half of the population

McLuhan: ‘Every body lives in the utmost proximity created by our electric involvement in one another’s lives’ Information can now move at the speed of light creating new patterns of communication and social interaction. People are now able to create and maintain relationships online. Communities around the globe are becoming intertwined in one and others affairs as the internet reduces the globe into the dimensions of a village

Question 2

Virtual communities

Studies?

Answer 2

Cater cyberspace: Community where people can meet others with similar interests. People are investing as much effort in their online relationships as they do with their offline relationships. Cyberspace is increasingly being embedded into everyday life. over 1 million registered users.

Boelstroff: Second Life allows users to create the identity know they want in terms of gender, ethnicity, and age via avatars so that they can be seen as who they who to other people. Through this community, people are able to interact and form relationships with people all around the world

Question 3

Media Convergence
Definition
Sociologist?
what ideas have media convergence been adopted to promote?
examples? (3)
What idea does this refer to as being the cause?
This is another way in which people are,,,?

Answer 3

Media convergence (Interlinking of social media platforms)

Boyle: Media convergence has been adopted to promote, western, capitalist ideas such as the pursuit of profit, private ownership, and material objects being presented as important. This is due to the idea that media companies can now advertise on a range of media platforms, social networks, and websites
(Another way in which people are targeted and exploited