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9. Where do you get your news? Is it owned by a large conglomerate (you can do a web search and find out!)? Does it matter to you who owns your local news outlets? Why, or why not?
10. Who do you think is most likely to bring innovation and technology (like cell phone businesses) to Sub-Saharan Africa: nonprofit organizations, governments, or businesses? Why?
8.4 Theoretical Perspectives on Media and Technology
11. Contrast a functionalist viewpoint of digital surveillance with a conflict perspective viewpoint.
12. In what ways has the Internet affected how you view reality? Explain using a symbolic interactionist perspective.
13. Describe how a cyberfeminist might address the fact that powerful female politicians are often demonized in traditional media.
14. The issue of airplane-pilot exhaustion is an issue of growing media concern. Select a theoretical perspective, and describe how it would explain this.
15. Would you characterize yourself as a technophile or a Luddite? Explain, and use examples.
Further Research
8.1 Technology Today
To learn more about the digital divide and why it matters, check out these web sites: http://openstaxcollege.org/l/ Digital_Divide (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/Digital_Divide) and http://openstaxcollege.org/l/Digital_Divide2 (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/Digital_Divide2)
To find out more about Internet privacy and security, check out the web site below: http://openstaxcollege.org/l/2EPrivacy (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/2EPrivacy)
8.2 Media and Technology in Society
To get a sense of the timeline of technology, check out this web site: http://openstaxcollege.org/l/Tech_History (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/Tech_History)
To learn more about new media, click here: http://openstaxcollege.org/l/new_media (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/ new_media)
To understand how independent media coverage differs from major corporate affiliated news outlets, review material from the Democracy Now! website: http://openstaxcollege.org/l/2EDemoNow (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/2EDemoNow)
8.3 Global Implications of Media and Technology
Check out more on the global digital divide here: http://openstaxcollege.org/l/Global_Digital_Divide (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/Global_Digital_Divide)
8.4 Theoretical Perspectives on Media and Technology
To learn more about cyberfeminism, check out the interdisciplinary artist collective, subRosa: http://openstaxcollege.org/l/ cyberfeminism (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/cyberfeminism/)
To explore the implications of panoptic surveillance, review some surveillance studies at the free, open source Surveillance and Society site: http://openstaxcollege.org/l/Surveillance (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/Surveillance)
Read an example of socialist media from Jacobin magazine here: http://openstaxcollege.org/l/2EJacobin (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/2EJacobin)
References
8.1 Technology Today
Guillen, M.F., and S.L. Suárez. 2005. “Explaining the Global Digital Divide: Economic, Political and Sociological Drivers of Cross-National Internet Use.” Social Forces 84:681–708.
Lewis, Dave. 2014. "ICloud Data Breach: Hacking and Celebrity Photos." Forbes.com. Forbes. Retrieved October 6, 2014 (http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sans.org%2Freading-room%2Fwhitepapers%2Fcasestudies%2Fcase-study-critical-controls-