Day4 Notes
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The document discusses several topics related to the internet, video, and democracy. It questions whether the increased availability of media forms like the internet and online videos actually promote democracy. It also debates issues like whether different media are more factual, how accessibility and anonymity online affect democratic ideals, who controls ideas on the internet, and whether online videos are simply another means to share opinions or something more complex.
Day4 Notes
- 1. Instructor: Adam T. Perzynski, PhD January 26, 2009
- 2. INTERNET, VIDEO AND DEMOCRACY USSO 286I
- 3. Modernism Social interaction is mediated. Symbolic representations Media forms Book, Newspaper, TV, Internet, Youtube Fidelity of symbolic representations Can we create communication rules that facilitate honest communication that drives social and technological progress?
- 4. Democracy Do we even know what this is?
- 5. Evidence, Criticality, and Truth Is there evidence that suggests the internet creates or promotes democracy? Are there differences in the level of truth in different forms of media? Are videos more factual? Does evidence even matter? Are our modernist ideas able to adequately comprehend this technology?
- 6. Access Does the availability and accessibility of the internet have any relation to the promotion of democracy or lack thereof? What types of resources condition access? Stratification, class systems and Digg
- 7. Anonymity If we aren’t our true “selves” when we are online, then who are we, and how can our interactions possibly promote democracy? Is there a loss of anonymity protection with online video? How does this challenge or promote the way we think about the online medium?
- 8. Who owns the internet? Do people even communicate on the internet? Who is in control of ideas in cyberspace? Which ideas are most “potent” and who decides? Are there any “free” places?
- 9. Extensions of Man “ Online video is just another way that people can make their opinions known.” EXTREME SADFACE Do we even know what the internet is? Do we even know what online videos are? Are they more like hammers? Or like Germany?