=>Sherry Turkle: ('Alone Together'book)
"A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological,"
"technology is threatening to dominate our lives and make us less human. Under the illusion of allowing us to communicate better, it is actually isolating us from real human interactions in a cyber-reality that is a poor imitation of the real world"
"It is a huge backlash. The different kinds of communication that people are using have become something that scares people,"
"Lets face it, i see no sign of anyone unplugging"
The Social Network has been seen as a thinly veiled attack on the social media generation, suggesting that Facebook was created by "people who failed to fit in with the real world".
"We have invented inspiring and enhancing technologies, yet we have allowed them to diminish us,"
=>Evgeny Morozov: (The Net Delusion)
Social media has bred a generation of "slacktivists". It has made people lazy and enshrined the illusion that clicking a mouse is a form of activism equal to real world donations of money and time"
=>Karl Marx:"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs."
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
=>Marshall McLuhan: "The medium is the message or the medium of a grown social subject". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/marshall_Mcluhan)
"The future of the book is the blur"
"as technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself" (1957)
=>Hegemony:Antonio Gramsci
"the systems of power cannot be maintained by force alone. People have to do things, willingly and happily to keep the powerful people on top". (http://www.suite101.com/content/hegemony-and-media-studies-a52278)
"The dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others.
'subordinated groups accept the ideas, values and readership of dominant groups"(Strinati,1995)
=>Marxist Media Theory:Althusser, Daniel Chandler,(2000)
"a political economy of new media insists on examination of the circumstances that give rise to any given distribution of power and of the consequences to consumers and citizens". (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/762/1/NMISsnt2.pdf)
"Marxism is a particular political philosophy, economic and sociological world view based upon a materialistic interpretation of history".(Marcism wiki)
=>Pluralism:'A social organisation in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated'.(wordnet.com)
=>Globalization of Media: Key Issues and Dimensions, Mirza Jan,(2009)
"personal and social consequences of any medium result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology"
(http://individual.utoronto.ca/markfederman/article_mediumisthemessage)
"Globalisation' is often portrayed as a positive force which is unifying widely different societies, integrating them into a 'global village' and enriching all in the process."
=>Cultural imperialism:'western Nations dominate the media around the world which in return effects on third world culture by imposing them western views and therefore destroying narrative culture'. (Schiller, H.J (1973) communication and cultural domination)
=>Past conalisation:'Post modern intellectual discourse that consists of reactions to and analysis of the cultural legacy of conalism'. (Wiki)
Further links:
why has Twitter not failed:
http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/10/why-twitter-hasnt-failed-the-power-of-audience/
FACEBOOK:
http://techcrunch.com/tag/facebook/
social networking:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/22/social-networking-cyber-scepticism-twitter
socaity and trend:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/social-trends
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