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- 131: The Computer and Mass Communication
- ... be transmitted that a qualitative change in culture may be imminent (Poster,1995). The Internet takes advantage of and harnesses the above technology. Rheingold (1993) states that virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Internet when enough people carry on public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace. The Internet is home to many virtual communities . These communities are based on commercial, professional, and social ties rather than geographical proximity (see Appendix A and B). Since no two people will have identical set of interests, these virtual communities interlock and interpenetrate in complex ways. The ... group are able to assemble in a way that gives them a sense of place. Online technologies which allow people to interact in a shared, persistent place foster the strongest social bonds. Usenet newsgroups, which is a large set of discussion groups that are composed of the collected contributions of its readers, develop a sense of community. This sense of ...
- 132: Fascism
- ... were weak. Fascism is a form of counter-revolutionary politics that first arose in the early part of the twentieth-century in Europe. It was a response to the rapid social upheaval, the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution. This right-wing philosophy will even advocate violent action to maintain this loyalty which is held in such high ... or reason. George Sorel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Georg Hegal are main philosophers who's beliefs and ideologies greatly influenced the shaping of Fascist theory. Sorel (1847-1922) was a French social philosopher who had a major influence on Mussolini. Sorel believed that societies naturally became decadent and disorganized. This decay could only be slowed by the leadership of idealists who were ... on the use of Fascism Hitler and Mussolini both worked similarly on how they established their principles in the same basic manner. Their principles came from basic responses to various issues the leaders faced. Fascism is an authoritarian political movement that developed in Italy and other European countries after 1919 as a reaction against the profound political and social changes ...
- 133: Internet Security
- ... an attached file called AOL4FREE.COM. This file is really just a program that calls another program that actually does delete all the files on a hard drive. Recently, the Social Security Administration made available on their web site a service that was supposed to allow people to get information about their Social Security status. To get this information, all that was necessary was for the user to supply some demographic information. Unfortunately, this information was available on other sites on the Internet, thereby making the information easily accessible. The Social Security Administration took this feature off their web site immediately, but was in trouble with United States citizens nonetheless for putting up this information on the site to begin ...
- 134: “Homeless Veterans: Perspectives on Social Services Use”
- “Homeless Veterans: Perspectives on Social Services Use” The article I chose to read was “Homeless Veterans: Perspectives on Social Services Use”, by Steven Lozano Applewhite and is titled “Homeless Veterans: Perspectives on Social Services Use.” I found this article in the Journal of the National Association of Social Workers. It is a study done on the nature and scope of homelessness and ...
- 135: Andy Warhol And Pop Art
- ... focuses more on the subject and less on style, which was left up to each individual artist. The main themes that is evident in all pop art revolves around modern social values. The style in which these values were portrayed varied depending on the culture and artist. Critic Barbara Rose claimed in her review of a Pop Art show that Pop ... Baroque or Cubism." (Bondo, 1998) In America, Pop Art used the images and techniques of mass media, advertising, and popular culture, often in an ironic way to play off the social issues of popular culture. The art form developed rapidly once reaching the U.S. New York City, often viewed as the epicenter of American popular culture, fostered the growth of ...
- 136: Andy Warhol and Pop Art
- ... focuses more on the subject and less on style, which was left up to each individual artist. The main themes that is evident in all pop art revolves around modern social values. The style in which these values were portrayed varied depending on the culture and artist. Critic Barbara Rose claimed in her review of a Pop Art show that Pop ... Baroque or Cubism." (Bondo, 1998) In America, Pop Art used the images and techniques of mass media, advertising, and popular culture, often in an ironic way to play off the social issues of popular culture. The art form developed rapidly once reaching the U.S. New York City, often viewed as the epicenter of American popular culture, fostered the growth of ...
- 137: Latin American Chage
- ... World in 1492, each country has gone through some level of colonization by a European power and transition to its current state. During this period the regions have seen political, social, religious and economic transformations of various degrees. Nevertheless, many scholars argue that regardless of the changes encountered, many are merely on the surface with little to no meaningful change instilled ... basic characteristics, which have persevered over time in some way or another. It is possible to organize the traits of these colonies into four distinct categories: economic development, religious and social mixing, racial and ethnic mixing and political structures. There were two basic industries found in the New World that shaped their economies: agriculture and mining. Both of these required tremendous ... forced to labor. This subjugation of Africans and the indigenous populations has had dramatic effects on society. As most regions emancipated the slaves sometime in the mid eighteenth century, a social pyramid developed where white elite’s at the top, mulatto landowners and poor whites in the middle and Blacks and Indians at the bottom. This social structure developed into ...
- 138: The Condition Of Postmodernity
- Book Review: The Condition of Postmodernity, David Harvey is well-known in social theory circles for books like Social Justice and the City (1973), The Limits to Capital (1982), The Urbanization of Capital (1985), and Consciousness and The Urban Experience (1985) -- all seminal attempts to chart the relatively new and unexplored interface between political economy and urban geography. The Condition of Postmodernity is a significant new work by Harvey that situates postmodern theory within a broad social context. Harvey's main argument is that, beginning around 1972, there has been a "sea-change" in political, economic, and cultural practices, involving the emergence of a new postmodern ...
- 139: The Real Rules of Retirement for Women (and Men too!)
- ... too!) Author: Nancy Dailey Author: Kelly O’Brien INTRODUCTION Policy experts use the analogy of a three-legged stool to illustrate the three components needed for adequate retirement income: a Social Security retired-worker benefit, an employer sponsored pension and individual savings. Although none of these sources of income is assured, each is an essential element for replacing pre-retirement income ... more retirement income than men do. Because only a small percentage of older women receive pension income and most do not have significant personal savings, many women must rely on Social Security as their primary source of income. Two-thirds of women over 65 have no pension other than Social Security. The problem is that Social Security was meant to provide only a bare minimum of a "floor of protection" in 1996, the average Social Security benefit for retired ...
- 140: Does The Mass Media Cause Undesireable Social Consequences With Specific Reference To Pornography
- Does The Mass Media Cause Undesireable Social Consequences With Specific Reference To Pornography It started by way of messengers and scribes, evolved through the presentation of newspapers and radio, brought us together with television, and now serves ... however, as no concrete and completely conclusive evidence has ever been formulated in support of the theory. The key premise here is that the mass media does not cause undesirable social behaviour and in actuality, the media people should not be dubbed as the “bad guys”. They simply use their power in the most constructive ways possible in order to promote ... violence against women (of course nothing is “absolute” in society). In order to demonstrate this, it must be made evident that pornography is not “evil” and does not cause undesirable social behaviour by displaying nude women in sexually explicit circumstances. Thus, it is important to indicate that women are not treated only as sexual objects through the media. This is ...
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