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| People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technology while simultaneously underestimating the long term potential. |
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| Defining Features of Media: The 3 A’s |
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| Artifacts, Activities, Arrangements |
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| People will behave differently if they believe they are being watched |
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Delusion in which people believe their lives are staged plays or reality TV shows |
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| Mobilizing with media: 4 Lessons |
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1. Internet use is associated w/ demands for democracy worldwide
2. Digital media provides unique opportunities for mobilizing social change
3. Digital media corporations make decisions that influence major social, political, and cultural events
4. Assholes exploit the internet too |
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| 3 Contributions of Social Media to Collective Action |
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1. Organize - High levels of organizational structure
2. Collective Identity - The formation of collective identities
3. Personalized content sharing across media networks |
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| The naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication |
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| How do Egyptians feel about the label "Facebook Revolution?" |
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They do not like it for 2 reasons:
1. Doesn’t recognize role of person
2. Puts American brand in Facebook, makes Americans feel they had a hand in it |
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People that already have social capital (e.g. resources, relationships, etc.) benefit most from digital media |
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| Over time, lower income people will eventually catch up to those who have access to digital technology; Lower income people will eventually have access to digital technology |
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Stratification Hypothesis
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| Only people with the most resources will adopt the new technology, the poorer will not |
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| 4 examples of how tech can be designed to improve lives |
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1. Training to rural housewives
2. Resolving socio-political conflict
3. Healthcare for Spanish speakers in New Mexico
4. Assistive robots for the elderly in the US |
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1. Small
2. Rural
3. Intimate communities |
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1. Large
2. Urban
3. Impersonal societies |
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| Internet use often reinforces ties in physical, local, communities |
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| 4 unique aspects of online support |
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1. Social distance
2. Anonymity
3. Interaction management
4. Access |
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| Triple A engine of internet sex |
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1. Affordable
2. Anonymity
3. Accessible |
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| Use technology to take advantage of deception |
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| Beliefs about how a medium communicates and structures communication |
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