Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Impact of Digital Communication - OCR A2 SOCIOLOGY
- Relationships
- Turkle
- Alone Together
- Granovetter
- Measuring relationships
- Time
- Intensity
- Intimacy
- Reciprocity
- Zhao
- Connective activities = social ties
- Krut et al
- Those with online social
connections also have offline
relationships
- Feld
- We use social networking sites to
eveluate ourselves and others.
- Miller
- Tales from Facebook
- Shaw and Grant
- Positives of the internet
- Decreases loneliness and depression
- Identity
- Case
- We are all cyborgs now
- Ellison
- Identity constructed by user
- Elliot
- Fragmented Identity
- Social Inequalities
- Gender
- Lil and Kirkup
- Study of gender differences in Britain and China
- Class
- Mertens and D'Haenens
- Lower class have less access to the
internet and use it for entertainment
- Upper class have more access to the
internet and use it for knowledge and
gaining information
- Knowledge Gap
- Age
- Boyle
- Digital Generation Divide
- Berry
- 79% of people
under pension
age have
internet access,
only 37% of
people over
that age have
access to the
internet.
- Location
- Reasons for a Global Digital Divide
- Education
- Physical Access
- Religion
- Economy
- Language
- Political Unrest
- Censorship
- Industrialised countries are
home to 88% of all internet
users, yet make up only 15%
of the world's population.