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| - a small, rural, intimate community |
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| people over-estimating the short-term effect of technology while understanding the long term effects |
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| Artifact- the devices you use, Activities- how you use it, Arrangement- How the media is presented to you |
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| How media controls the world around us and is our life. |
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| someone is always watching what you do so you may act differently, prison where one central guard tower can watch all prisoners at once |
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| shows how media can effect the way you act once you know that media is watching you. |
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| What are the “4 lessons from the lecture |
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•Internet use is associated with demands for democracy world-wide
•Digital media provides unique opportunities for mobilizing social change
•Digital media corporations make decisions that influence major social political and cultural events
•Assholes exploit the internet also |
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| 3 Contributions of social media to collective action and which one is unique to digital media |
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•High levels of organizational resources
•Formation of collective identities
•Personalized content sharing across media network -Unique to digital media |
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| the belief of the emancipation of online communication |
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| What does the label “The Facebook Revolution” refer too |
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| The organization of the protests for the Arab spring were all started on social media sites since they were viewed as merely entertainment, so they were not censored by the government. This allowed protesters to organize where and when mass protests would take place. |
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| Birth of the Egyptian Blogosphere |
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| Blogs and other forms of social media started to become popular right around the time of the Arab Spring protests. Because of the rise of online awareness, people were able to stay connected through blogs, Facebook, twitter, and texting about where and when protests were going to take place. |
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| How did the Arab Spring begin? |
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| The Arab spring began with the Kefya “Enough” Movement. It started in Tunisia and later went a few other countries, all of which wanted to overthrow their regimes. |
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| How did Tunisian organizers use digital technology? |
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| They used Internet, phones, and television |
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| Which media were associated with attending protests? |
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| Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, and text messaging. |
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| Differences between Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring |
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Occupy Wall Street
Arab Spring
No organizational structure
Goal was to overthrow regimes
No harm to participants Harm to participants
Participants beaten and tortured
Unsuccessful
Successful |
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| Interview with author of The Center Holds/How the Obama campaign used Facebook |
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| Shows how the Obama Campaign targeted people on Facebook who were Obama supporters but didn’t perform certain tasks during the elections. They would send a reminder through accessing a person’s friend’s list to make sure that everyone went out and voted for Obama. |
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| How did big data change canvasing? |
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| People no longer need to go door to door, they can use a big data survey and than collective whatever they need to know from a large group of people |
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| The Obama Campaign added a one click donation app so when people are watching the debate from a bar or something and see that Obama needs help, they can click quickly to donate and not think about it. |
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| What is Second-Level Digital Divide? |
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| People have access to technology but just don’t know how to use it to better them selves. |
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| What is the Rich-get-Richer effect? |
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| when technology advances, its people that had more access to media in the first place that benefit more from it because they have the capital to use it. |
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| Who is not using the Internet in the US? WHY? |
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| 1/5 Americans are not using the internet in the US. This group is made up of elderly, people who make under $30,000, or adults without a high school degree. These people either do not have access to it or don’t understand how to use it. |
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| What does the digital divide look like internationally? |
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| A lot of less developed countries have access to Internet but the government either filters it or they are very far behind us. |
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| 3 Examples of how tech can be designed to improve lives: |
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•Midwives in Indonesia
oHelping midwives get the proper knowledge at how to deal with a problem when delivering a baby to save the baby or mother’s life
•Resolving Sociopolitical Conflict in Liberia
o2 civil wars in 14 years, used technology to voice complaints and humanize each side.
•Getting health info to non-English speakers
oCommon barriers that prevent people from getting the proper health care because of the language barrier |
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| a large, urban, impersonal society |
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| Improving relationships through internet use in local communities |
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| Social Networks are Stronger when? |
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| Social networks are stronger when weak ties are formed. These communities are stronger and show more economic growth because of ties between acquaintances . |
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| A dedicated website or other application that enables users to communicate with each other by allowing users to post information, comments, pictures, messages, etc |
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| What is the effect of Facebook on social capital? |
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| Bridging capital is meeting new people or bonding capital which is maintaining relationships |
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| How does self-esteem moderate that relationship? |
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| Almost always positive but especially good if you have low self-esteem because it helps boost it |
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| What is Social Presence Theory? |
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| The Greater the bandwidth the more cues you can have which in turn may lead to a better social presence. |
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| What are Reduced Social Context Cues? |
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| Digital communication leads to a lack on non-verbal cues to affect purpose |
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| What is the Media Richness Theory? |
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| Optimal match between equivocality (deceptive communication) of a communication need and the richness of the media |
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| Social Identity Deindividuation Model, which means anonymity, increases group cohesion |
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| What is the Social Information Processing Theory? |
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| Rejected view that the absence of non-verbal cues restricts the capability to exchange social information |
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| What is the Hyperpersonal Theory? |
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1.Over attribution processes
2.Selective self presentation
3.Re-allocation of cognitive resources
4.Behavioral confirmation (feedback) |
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| What is the history of the relationship between Sex and Media? |
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| It is a long-term love affair, within a year of the Internet being created; there was sex on the Internet. |
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| What are the triple A engine of internet Sex? |
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•Accessible
oNo limit to what and how much can be accessed
•Affordable
oRelationships and dating sites make the price of meeting far less of a burden
•Anonymity
oAllows many to disclose in ways and at levels they can’t see face to face |
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| Soon you won’t even need to leave your seat for sex with machines and the virtual reality they have today |
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| How common is Internet dating? |
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| 5% of adults use Internet dating. 2% of marriages are caused by E-Harmony as of 2005 |
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| What is a summary of findings online deception study? |
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| We tell lies to make ourselves appear better than we actually do |
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| What is Digital Deception |
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| The intentionally controlled information in a technologically mediated message to create a false belief in the receiver of the message. |
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| How much time is spent on media from a 8-18 yr old? |
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| 7.5 hours with multi tasking, if one task at a time than around 11 hours. |
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| When is being online bad for mental health? |
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| Early TV viewing ages 1-3 is associated with ADD at age 7. |
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| What are the effect of multi-tasking on productivity? |
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| ? The more you multi task the worse it is for you because your brain isn’t meant to multi task |
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| Computers as social actors, we treat computers like they are humans by worrying about them and by using the same politeness norms as we would for people. |
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