SOC 880 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Zuccotti Park, Power (Social And Political), Mesh Networking
13 Oct 2018
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The move towards user friendly but closed and centralized network and computer systems that are are predictable,easy to use specialized machines that require little to no maintenance. The precise role that digital communications technologies played in the grouping of distinct civil uprisings between 2010 and 2012 throughout number of countries that together. Is critical of the ways in which the 20th-century mass media system. People tend to get their views reinforced more than they get their views challenged. some media scholars have argued that the internet actually has a polarizing effect that is similar to the functions of mass media. Technology-mediated interaction between the civil society sphere and the formal political sphere and between the civil society sphere and the administration sphere. The intellectual isolation that can occur 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.
