Internet and Society
Review Sheet
Exam 1
May 15 2014
DARPA
utopias
dystopias
social
equality
cosmopolitanism
democratic
participation
eliminating
the most unpleasant, routine, boring aspects of work
entertainment
options
economic
growth
global
cooperation
information
overload
shorter
attention spans
"new
class" / digital elites
digital
"black holes" (Manuel Castells)
Internet:
The Mainstreaming of Online Life
Evgeny
Morozov The Wrong Way to Discuss New Technologies
technological
defeatism
technological
solutionism
camera
technology
noise
abatement campaigns
Manuell
Castells, The Network Society
information
capitalism
knowledge
economy (Drucker)
postindustrial
society (Touraine 1971; Bell 1976)
information
society
Fritz
Machlup’s 1962 study “The production and distribution of knowledge in the
United States”
“knowledge
industry”
“symbolic
analysts” (Bell 1973)
Economic
growth
Social
inequality
increased demand for knowledge workers
“brain drain”
“global cities”
geography of centrality and marginality
“party politics” to “informational politics”
E-government strategies
“informational welfare states”
sensory overload
media addiction (Byun et al. 2009;Young 1998),
“The Dumbest Generation” (Mark
Bauerlein, 2008)
Tepper and Hargittai
Robinson
and Schulz
Pierre
Bourdieu
Forms
of capital (social, economic, cultural)
Habitus:
bodily and cognitive imprint of social position
Symbolic
Violence, Symbolic Domination
highbrows,
snobs, and omnivores.
psychological
benefits of seeking out new music
knowledge
of new music is social currency
liking
the right kind of culture confers social distinction (Bourdieu)
social
networks
mass
media
digital
media
Highly
wired families
Partially
wired families
Unwired
families
social
contracts
‘rights
and responsibilities’ model
resource
sharing, turn-taking
capital-enhancing
activities