CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Granularity, Market Structure, Hacktivism

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Jeremy Packer

Document Summary

Networked electronic communication: ability to connect directly with almost anyone in your social networks. Computer network is part of our social network. Individuals and organizations socialize into communities through networks not groups. Networks: you may know someone who knows someone (indirect connection) Network campaigns allow diverse groupings of organizations and individuals to work towards a shared purpose while remaining autonomous individuals. Maps interpersonal linkages using states and graphs techniques. Places people and things in a network. Ideas and technologies can be seen as actants. System of associative structures and social networks, connections, and human interactions that encourages flow of ideas between individuals and institutions. Rise of networked information economy due to: Rise of information, knowledge, creative industries themselves. Existence of internet gives boost to non market forms of production of information, knowledge, and culture. Increased peer production of information, knowledge, and culture through larger scale cooperative efforts. Creation of goods/services (including information goods) in a social fashion.