Invented the World Wide Web. "I have always imagined the information space as something to which everyone has immediate and intuitive access, and not just to browse, but to create".
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The Reductionist Theory
The practice of simplifying a complex idea, issue or condition, especially to the point of minimising, obscuring or distorting it.
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David Gauntlett
Media Utopianist. UTOPIA: An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. GATEKEEPERS: If they are gone, it benefits everyone. E.g. "The Truman Show"
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Andrew Keen
Media Dystopianist: DYSTOPIA: An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad; typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. GATEKEEPERS: They are necessary.
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The Hypodermic Needle
Mass audiences are passive and gullible. Ideas, beliefs, ideologies are 'INJECTED' into their minds, and are accepted.
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Eli Parker's Filter Bubble Theory
A filter bubble is the intellectual isolation that occurs when websites make use of algorithms to selectively assume the information a user would want to see, and then give information to the user according to this assumption.
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Gramsci's Hegemonic View and The Marxist Philosophy
Cultural Hegemony is the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture, so that their views are seen as the NORM.
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Charles Leadbetter's 'We Think' Theory
There is an open access knowledge which allows building communities on the web, to allow ideas to be shared and tested much more quickly and effectively.
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Habermas' 'Public Sphere' Theory
A Public Sphere is an area in social life, where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems and through that discussion influence political action.
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Noam Chomsky's Spectator Democracy
Someone who's not participating in a change, only watching something happen; spreading awareness, e.g. KONY 2012
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Technological Determinism
This theory assumes that a society's technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values. (Thorstein Veblen)
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Dan Gillmor's Citizen Journalism
The collection, dissemination, and analysis of news and information by the general public, especially by means of the Internet. It's a tool to either support or challenge the hegemony.
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Computer Misuse Act (1990)
The Computer Misuse Act is designed to protect computer users against wilful attacks and theft of information. Offences under the act include hacking, unauthorised access to computer systems and purposefully spreading malicious and damaging software.
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Viktor Schlonburger
H states that we have the right for our personal information to be forgotten on the internet.
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Evgeny Morozov's
Expresses skepticism about the popular view that the Internet is helping to democratize authoritarian regimes, arguing that it could also be a powerful tool for engaging in mass surveillance, political repression, and spreading propaganda.
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Danah Boyd: Co-Option
New practices emerge that are completely incoherent to those who were fluent in the previous culture of film. E.g. Visual effects: animated watercolour was impossible without digitization.
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Danah Boyd: Translation
Old practices are kept intact and imported into the new medium. E.g. When advertisers began using the internet, they just translated the marketing content to the web, making the web look and feel exactly like an advertising bulletin board.
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Danah Boyd: Localisation
Practices are modified to take advantage of the technology, usually to make things more efficient. E.g. Cinema tickets can be bought and printed online.
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Danah Boyd
Says that the media is changing in 3 different ways. Translation, Localisation and Co-Option.
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The practice of simplifying a complex idea, issue or condition, especially to the point of minimising, obscuring or distorting it.
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The Reductionist Theory
Card 3
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Media Utopianist. UTOPIA: An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. GATEKEEPERS: If they are gone, it benefits everyone. E.g. "The Truman Show"
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Card 4
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Media Dystopianist: DYSTOPIA: An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad; typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. GATEKEEPERS: They are necessary.
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Card 5
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Mass audiences are passive and gullible. Ideas, beliefs, ideologies are 'INJECTED' into their minds, and are accepted.
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