MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Facebook Messenger, Rand Corporation, Whatsapp
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Social media gather users (and data): facebook has over 2 billion users. Labour, goods and services, and finance all became more mobile: political developments in 1945-1990s intensified the process of capitalist globalization. Intense spying and information gathering and sharing between 1945- Spying between the east (eastern europe) and the west (western. Europe, north america, latin america: each region was afraid the other was "getting ahead," especially in terms of nuclear bombs, fall of the soviet union (formerly powerful communist state failed in. Sputnik: soviet spying device that intensified competition over spying technology; this technology was a satellite that intervened with radio signals so the soviet union could listen in on the us radio stations and such. Sputnik frightened people in the west, but it was nuclear war that was the real. Soviet threat, and a us retaliation would likely change the earth forever. If the soviet union attacked some area of the us (say, a military base) then they.
