Exam 9: Community in the Network Society

Gesellschaft is often used to represent the ideal type of society, one where people are closely connected, share an identity, and engage in reciprocity.

Those who identify with the community-liberated perspective often _________________

What needs to be taken into consideration in order to better understand how the Internet has affected society?

The concept of the spiral of silence is that participants of the public sphere will be unwilling to share their opinions if they perceive they are in accordance with those of the majority.

Evidence from a study suggests that the spiral of silence also applies to Facebook.

Evidence suggests that the Internet decreases social capital.

What is the main limitation inherent in the term "Twitter Revolution"?

Which three areas compose the bourgeois public sphere of debate?

What is the key argument of the dystopian perspective of the Internet?

Zuckerman has stated that "Tunisians took to the streets in reaction to a WikiLeaks cable."

Habermas developed the notion of the public sphere based on historical analysis. What three areas did he propose composed the bourgeois public sphere?

In a 2019 study of the nature of the personal networks of residents of East York, Toronto, Canada, the authors found that most of the older adults they interviewed belonged to the following group:

What is the difference between bonding and bridging social capital?

What could be considered as a private effect of social capital?

Define the term digital public sphere.

A Pew Research Center study found that people were a lot more willing to share their views about the Snowden-NSA story, both in person and on social media, like Facebook, if they thought their audience agreed with them. Which theory does this finding support?

"Organic solidarity" describes a society based on shared understandings around social roles, revealing a cohesive social structure with a strong collective conscious.

What happened when the Egyptian government hit the Internet kill switch?

Which of these places was considered an important third place in eighteen-century Europe?

Explain the "rich get richer" hypothesis as it pertains to the Internet.