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Haraway (1985)
A cyborg manifesto,women should not be excluded from technological advances
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Nakumura (2011)
A range of women from different ethnic backgrpunds are gaining anincreasing presence online
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Fourth wave feminism
New forms of digital global communication are being used as tools to allow women to build a strong reactive online movement
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Howard (2011)
The internet played a key role in Christian fundamentalist groups.
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Kirkpatrick (2010)
Facebook has become catalyst for a popular movement in Columbia, mobilising 10 million people in street demonstartions
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The Arab Spring
A series of anti-government protests and armed rebellions that spread across the arab world in the 2010s
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The types of Digital Communication
Facebook, Twitter, Youtube
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Cultutal Homogenisation
Western culture threatens to dominate over other cultures, creating one culture
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Consumerism
People's identities are being shaped by the products they choose to buy
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Cultural Defense
Local cultures are being protected and promoted
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Giddens (1991)
Points to a process of 'reverse colonisation', where Western powers are dominated by cultural groups
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Globalisation
A process that's been going on for a long time, more and more people becoming connected
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Media Covergence
Different ways of accessing media such as through digital devices, phones, computers
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Marxist explanation of digital communication
A greater platform for shaping people's ideas, encouraging to accept capitalism and not question inequalities
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Murdoch media group
Controls over a fifth of UK news consumption
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Garside (2014)
Argues that people are spending more time online than ever before, balance between sleep and screen based activities has now tipped
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Cornford and Robins (1999)
Digital communication is simply a way of capitalism controlling the masses subtly
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The Snowden Report
Revealed the widespread misuse of surveillance in digital communciation. US and UK had been accessing personal communications.
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