Baby boomers. Generation X. Millennials. And now, Generation Z. With each generation comes new attitudes, new ways of thinking, and of course, new technologies. The complexity of generations is complicated at best, but there are some differences among them, particularly in regards to how they approach technologies. With the wheels…
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Research Question:
How do cultural norms contribute to and reflect portrayals of ourselves on Instagram, and how does that impact young people’s body image? Does this differ with the gender or age of the user? …
concepts:
digital serfdom; hyperemployment; social factory; global community; digital ownership
summary:
Silverman and Bogost explore the idea of digital serfdom — we are all working for companies like Facebook, Twitter, etc — and ultimately describe it as negatively impacting our society, suggesting a need for awareness regarding the impact of…
Concepts:
friendship; likes/reactions;assemblage; actor
Summary:
Taina Bucher explores friendships on Facebook, ultimately arguing that the software itself is an agent in that friendship, the friendships break cultural assumptions about friendships, and they lose some of their voluntary nature. …
Concepts:
progress; convenience; private space; technological and cultural determinism; control
Summary:
Slack and Wise examine perspectives on technology, discussing a Western story of progress and how it is used, the desire for convenience and overcoming limits of space and time, the idea that neither technological nor cultural determinism is fully…
Concepts:
global village; collide-oscope; allatonceness; rear-view mirror society; invisible environments
Summary:
McLuhan argues that we are completely immersed in a “global village” that is technologically interdependent and thought and action are incredibly close, leading to greater social involvement of everyone, all at once. …
