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Clues

  • 83% of adults go online, 62% of UK adults use a smartphone, 66% of online adults have a social network profile, privacy, security attitudes and behaviour vary considerably by age group. (3, 5, 6)
  • Globalisation has a transformative but uneven effect on all parts of the global system. Rather than destroying local cultures, it has led to a spark of localist and nationalist movements. (7)
  • Globalisation is destroying the culture of the east through Westernisation and and Americanisation due to large American firms. Globalisation has an American face. (8)
  • Individuals can adopt multiple online personalities and online activities often leave visible traces which can be captured, tracked, packaged and shared. These choices tell us lot about individuals and attitudes in wider society. (7)
  • Predicted a global village would occur, where one world was interconnected by an electronic nervous system, making it part of our popular culture before it actually happened. (7)
  • Relationships can be impacted from the use of social networks such as posting comments about others. It can be used in a deviant way such as hacking and information posted cannot be removed. (3, 6, 7)
  • Studied the digital divide in Brussels and found a clear link between class and internet usage, lower social classes used the internet less, they also used the internet differently, the lower classes for entertainment and middle to boost knowledge. (7, 3, 8)
  • The historical trajectory (past) of the world is in the direction of the kind of civilisation found in western capitalist liberal democracies. World conflicts will continue in the form of struggles to establish capitalism where it isn't present. (8)
  • The virtual online community 'second life', they can create their own identities unrelated to their real life identities. However behaviour within the game could be considered crimes in real life e.g. violence, which may cause confusion in real life. (11)
  • The world has shifted from industrialism to post-industrialism to informationalism, the determining technology of our age is not mechanical but information based. This has brought about a whole new way in which economic activity is conducted. (8)

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