Comms Technology
- Created by: emmakate
- Created on: 13-01-14 10:19
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- Technology
- Digital Divide
- Inequality between groups in terms of use of knowledge of information and communication technologies
- Social classes
- Gender
- MEDCs and LEDCs
- Inequality between groups in terms of use of knowledge of information and communication technologies
- Marshall McLuhan
- the global village
- Modern technology has united the world
- Immediate communication
- Social spheres are greatly expanded
- Physical difference is less of a hinderance
- the medium is the message
- Each medium has its own effects which are its own unique message
- Different mediums of communication = different social/cultural practices + norms
- Text, phone calls, letter, skype, face-to-face
- Each medium has its own effects which are its own unique message
- the global village
- Neil Postman
- Technopoly
- Without technology we are nothing
- Society is defined by technology
- Technopoly
- Foucault
- Pan-optician
- The all-seeing eye
- Surveillance society
- Pan-optician
- Technological determinism
- The technology we have at our disposal in a society determines the way we see the world
- Digital Divide
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