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| In what way, according to guest speaker Jorge Lizzagana, has urban planning been used to preserve the established power base in Portland, OR? |
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| The city has been mapped out so that different ethnic groups live in certain areas of portland |
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| According to Richard Slclove, what is meant by technology's primary function? Its secondary? |
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Primary - To make everyday life easier
Secondary - Creates unwanted social consequences |
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| In what way, according to Freeman Dyson, can technology "contribute to social justice"? |
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| When provided to all of society, technology can bring justice to the impoverished by giving them the same privileges as everybody else. |
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| What plan does Dyson propose for improving the lives of those who have little hope for a creation of wealth? |
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| Solar energy, genetic engineering, and the Internet will work together to create a socially just world. |
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| What is Deontology, as discussed in Ian Barbour's essay? |
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| Stresses duty and obligation, the choice of acts that are right in themselves, apart from the calculation of consequences. |
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| Holts that the production of "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" is the supreme moral principle. |
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| Name one problem with all current systems of ethics in regards to technology, according to Han Jonas? In other words, name something they fail to address. |
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| They are not thinking of future peoples. Human centered |
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| What is the connection between knowlege, social responsibility, and technology discussed at length in Jonas' essay? |
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| With great knowlege comes easier access to technology and its great powers. People must be held socially responsible for how they use this technology |
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| What is meant by the term "digital divide"? |
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| The divide between people with access to technology and people without. |
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| Name the four digital "divides" |
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1.) Motivational
2.) Materials
3.) Usage
4.) Skills |
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| What is at stake with the digital divide? |
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| A growing diversity between the "digital" and "non-digital" can lead to an even larger knowlege gap, since most information is accessed online |
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| If the divide is not a "technical problem" as the author suggests, then what kind is it? |
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| It is a social problem. People need to put in time/money in order to erase the digital divide. The problem is, they want to use the time/money on themselves instead. |
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| What is the relation between power and privilege and the digital divide? |
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| People with power and privilege keep expanding the gap in the digital divide. People with p/p can afford the latest and greatest, so they get it. This results in an even wider digital divide. |
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| In "inequality in the networked society" what does the author Jan Van Dijk mean when he says "Information is not power" |
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| He means that information is only a means of relaying power, the power comes from the status in the networked society |
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| What is a "networked society"? |
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An information society with networks serving as the basic structure of organization.
- Not a synonym for information society, but an addition |
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| What is meant by the terms "connectivity" and "flat structure"? |
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connectivity - networks are meant to connect more people at a larger distance, as opposed to connecting people in dense communities that are close to each other
flat structure - Means that there is no center and that all those connected are more equal within the network because of the lack of bureaucracy. |
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| the tendency of individuals to associate and bond with similar others. |
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| "Networks," Van Dijk tells us, "are better able to transcend place and time than are other modes of organization" and interestingly, this aspect of networks constitutes "the most important reason why (some people) anticipate the growth of inequality in the networked society. |
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| The growth of inequality is due to the "exclusions" that are made between the individuals in the network. In this way the rich get richer and the poor get poorer in relation to their stance in the network. In terms of homophily, the people at the top of the group come together because of their similarities, just as the people at the bottom do. This creates an inequality because those at the bottom do not interact with those at the top. |
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| Besides "textual analysis," what are the other 2 components of critical cultural studies of media? |
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| Political economy, and audience reception |
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| the power or dominance that one social group holds over others |
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| Explain and analyze the IRON MY SHIRT hillary clinton political t-shirt. |
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| The image is an anti-Hillary propoganda shirt that essentialy targets the group of men in our country that do not believe a woman can/should run America. It is saying that women should be doing our laundry, not running our country. |
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| What is the problem with media mergers? |
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| You get multiple stations that are "employed" by one master station and therefore they all have the same agenda/message to get across. |
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| What is the agenda of critical cultural studies and how does that agenda pertain to a study of digital diversity? |
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| The agenda is to change media into a service that promotes a more intercultural approach that is in each ethnic group's best interest. The problem with this is that in theory, this is the case, but in practice, the world of mainstream media is far too complex and it more often than not fails in a sense |
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| In The Facebook Project: The Missing Box” what is Jeff Ginger’s basic argument? In other words, what does he see as Facebook’s mistake and how does he think the site ought to address it? |
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| There is no race, ethnicity, or nationality category available for default facebook profiles. He thinks they should add this to the default profile information. Category should not be required, and open response |
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| How is race and ethnic identity handled in Facebook? What does this treatment of race and ethnic identity mean for non-whites, according to Ginger? |
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| Facebook is color blind. It disempowers people, and leaves judgement up to the viewer. |
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| What is identity, and what are the two way that it is constructed, according to Ginger? |
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| Identity is how we perceive ourselves. It is constructed through personal experience, as well as how other people perceive us. |
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| What is meant by the term “social capital? How does it apply to Facebook? |
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| Social Capital - the amount of people you have access to on facebook. Made up from Network capital, precipatory capital, and community commitment. Facebook is a tool of social capital. |
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| What is one of the “two racist or discriminatory norms in society,” according to Ginger? |
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| the colorblind mentality and racialized visual classification of others |
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