SOCI 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 25: Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Individualism, Web 2.0
10 Apr 2018
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Digital natives: grown up with digital technologies and do not remember a time without the internet. Digital immigrants: individuals who came to technology later in life. Community lost: industrialization led to the decline of community. Community saved: friendship and family networks continue to dominate as forms of social organization. Community liberated: community is not completely lost but rather has changed. Networked individualism: how individuals connect outside of group boundaries and geographic locations. What is the impact of technologies on community. Utopian: the internet has a positive effect on community. Dystopian: draws people away from their immediate, local environments alienating them from socialization and civic participation. Supplement: provides an important and central means of communication. Adds to forms of communication rather than replacing them. Digital divide: inequalities in access to computers and/or the internet and in empowerment by digital technologies. Inequalities associated with the social class, gender, national origin and other characteristics are seen as the basis for the digital divide.
