CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Participatory Media, Computer Network, Time Warner

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Test #2 on october 22nd on chapters 4, 5, 6. Comparative essay due october 28th (frame of reference between two aricles and how they relate) Core theme: media afordance can encourage new pracices. Core theme: contemporary communicaions can challenge the social order. Group small populaion, arbitrary grouping (all people belong here, the rest there etc. ) Two or more people (can"t be in a group by yourself) Regular interacion (patern that causes group idenity, sense of permanence could change but consistent) Shared idenity (shared concept of what it means to be in that group and idenity of group itself) Small (relaive to the ability to scale up resources) Social network: a set of relaions among members of a network; members may be individuals, organizaions or states. Diverse others a lot of peer pressure to conform, social norms are strict. Paricipaion in muliple networks if you"re in a group it"s hard to do. Resources things you can mobilize to your advantage.