Digital social media P3

• Martell


  time space compression

  geographical distance and time no longer matter due to new forms of communication
• McLuhan


  Global village

  communication and media central nervous system for the world connecting everyone suggesting cultural homogenisation
• Waters

  social process

  constraints of geography on economic political and social arrangements have declined
• Giddens


  growing interconnectedness

  globalisation is the process of growing interconnectedness between countries
• Boyle

  media convergence

  digitalisation allows media convergence to take place

  suggests separate media forms can be accessed through one device
• Carter


  cybercity

  virtual community

  people who meet a person online do continue their friendship offline
• Boelistorff


  second life

  showed how the virtual worlds can change ideas about identity and society

  game includes a rape add on
• Castells


  horizontal organisation

  the emergence of digital tech, culture is easily available. communication and info are now organised horizontally
• Kirkpatrick


  Facebook effect

  social media can be used top mobilise large numbers of people to protest

  also shows glocalisation as other countries use Facebook as a dating website
• castells (positive)


  decentralised power

  DSM has decentralised power of communication, its given everyone power of communication which strengthens the proletariat
• Jenkins


  transnational companies

  ownership of media companies is concentrated in the hands of a few major transnational companies
• Fuchs


  digital underclass

  technology reinforces inequality strengthening the bourgeoisie
• Castells (-)


  global criminal economy

  a global criminal economy is possible due to digital communication

  currently worth at least £1 trillion
• Cornford & Robins


  factories vs tech

  their has been a change in what the bourgeoisie own, a shift from factories to technology companies
• Edward snowdon report


  whistleblower

  talks about phone hacking, digital communication is said to be surveying us through data collection
• Haraway


  cyborgs

  women are empowered to become cyborgs as internet grants anonymity and stops them being essentialised
• Nakamura


  muted groups

  women from ethnic minority gaining more presence enabling them to unite
• Cochrane


  reactive feminism

  digital social media encouraging women to build empowering and reactive movements
• Arlaccki


  undesirable results

  exploitation has been one of the most undesirable consequences of globalisation
• Hughes


  patriarchal ideas

  DSM offers new ways patriarchal ideas can exert over women

  • bride trafficking
  • sex trafficking
  • sex tourism
• Collins


  different identities

  individuals have different online and offline identities that can change between platforms
• Baudrillard


  hyper reality

  people find it hard to distinguish between real world and online identity
• Bjorklund


  autobiography

  people now use digital media as an ongoing autobiography which can be continually updated
• Hart


  status updates

  status updates seen as culturally significant as reflect peoples actions in a particular social context
• Case


  unable to remove

  constant updating online can cause problems for adolescence as they can't remove it later in life
• Fousault


  surveillance

  surveillance is the best way to regulate a persons behaviour
• Ellison


  multiple personalities

  individuals are now able to adopt multiple online personalities
• Hart


  constructing identity

  people use social media to construct both social identity and the self they want to project
• Van Dijk


  mass self communication

  people now fond of mass self communication as they are disclosing information for popularity
• Turkle


  loosing burdens

  internet based networks free people of their burdens of physical identities and present 'better' versions of themselves
• Gardner and Davis


  3 media trends

  construct socially desirable self online, adopt range of fictional identities, manage online impressions

  • in young people
• Twenge

  negative reaction

  the fear of negative reactions result in rising levels of moodiness and anxiety in teenagers
• Turkle


  mentally tethered

  young people mentally tethered to digital devices weakening youngs ability to create an independent sense of self
• Shaw and Gant


  elderly skills

  technological develops skills of the elderly such as:

  • cognitive capacity
  • self competence
  • mental and physical wellbeing
  • reduced loneliness
• Ginsburg


  disabled engagement

  DSM provides platform to engage in first person discussion eg digital video activism, support networks and able bodied avatars
• Granovetter


  strength of relationships

  4 ways to measure the strength of a relationship:

  • time spent together
  • emotional intensity
  • level of intimacy
  • degree of reciprocity

  weak & strong ties
• Gardner and Davis


  enabling relationships

  internet has enabled relationships as they transcend geographical and temporal barriers
• Miller


  impact of facebook

  after a century of social networking and community to be in decline. Facebook has hugely expanded social relationships in a global context
• Turkle


  alone togetherness

  people that are in the same room but use devices to communicate with eachother
• Vincent


  twitter effect

  social media leads to relationship breakdown as people cheat online and cause conflict