Identity

Question 1

SOCIAL CLASS
Ascribed or achieved?

Answer 1

Childhood - ascribed
Adulthood - achieved

Question 2

SOCIAL CLASS
Postmodernist view

Answer 2

Tech kills social class background

Question 3

SOCIAL CLASS
Sociologist Mathews

Answer 3

Facebook working class organisations based on social class - memories discussed

Different to middle class

Question 4

SOCIAL CLASS DIVIDE
Digital underclass

Answer 4

•Connection fee - How much it costs (£25-60 monthly)

•have less social capital
-education
-seen as inferior

Question 5

SOCIAL CLASS DIVIDE
Middle class

Answer 5

Helpser - media dominated by middle class

Question 6

SOCIAL CLASS DIVIDE
Middle class
Stats

Answer 6

Mertens digital wars In Belgium
Working class 84%
Middle class 94%

Question 7

SOCIAL CLASS DIVIDE
What do middle and working class use media for?

Answer 7

Middle class - entertainment
Working class - education

Question 8

GENDER
Example of digital impact on female identity

Answer 8

Cyborg manifesto

Haraway

Question 9

GENDER
Example of digital impact on male identity

Answer 9

Schmitz- rise of men rights activists - promote aggression against women

Question 10

GENDER
Example of digital impact on male identity
Rise of male activist sociologist

Answer 10

Schmitz

Question 11

GENDER DIVIDE
OfCom 2018

Answer 11

1. Men + women equally go online on devices
2. Men consoles women phones
3. When no phone; Women miss socials men miss emails

Question 12

GENDER DIVIDE
Sociologist Mphedi

Answer 12

Women have limited access to internet
-men dominate IT
-patronising
-spoke in class

Question 13

GENDER DIVIDE
World Wide Webber Foundation

Answer 13

Gender gap (50%) in poorer countries

Question 14

GENDER DIVIDE
Gender gap (50%) in poorer countries

Answer 14

World wide Webber foundation

Question 15

GENDER DIVIDE
Women limited to Tech sociologist

Answer 15

Mphedi
-men dominate IT
-patronising
-spoke in class

Question 16

GENDER DIVIDE
Men and women divide sociologist

Answer 16

OfCom 2018

Question 17

AGE IDENTITY YOUTH
Gardner and Davis

Answer 17

Youth are most frequent users of social media
-promote good traits
-downplay bad traits
-leads to narcissism

Question 18

AGE IDENTITY YOUTH
Youth are frequent users of social media sociologist

Answer 18

Gardner and Davis

Question 19

AGE IDENTITY YOUTH
Turkle

Answer 19

Mentally tethered to devices
Limits independence because too dependent on people’s opinion

Question 20

AGE IDENTITY ELDERLY
Age 2.0 project

Answer 20

Train elderly to use media to close loneliness gap

Question 21

AGE IDENTITY ELDERLY DIVIDE
Berry - internet access

Answer 21

65+ internet access 37%
Below 79%

Question 22

AGE IDENTITY ELDERLY DIVIDE
Prensky

Answer 22

Young - digital natives
Old - digital immigrants

Question 23

AGE IDENTITY ELDERLY DIVIDE
Boyle reason for digital divide

Answer 23

Old people take longer to learn skills
Youth impressionable by peers