Introduction to Sociology

THINK IT OVER

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  Contrast a functionalist viewpoint of digital surveillance with a conflict perspective viewpoint.
  
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  Describe how a cyberfeminist might address the fact that powerful female politicians are often demonized in traditional media.
  

TRY IT

20. 
    A parent secretly monitoring the babysitter through the use of GPS, site blocker, and nanny cam is a good example of:
    
    1. 
       A neo-Luddite
       
    2. 
       Panoptic surveillance
       
    3. 
       Technophilia
       
    4. 
       The social construction of reality
       

21. 
    When all media sources report a simplified version of the environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing, with no effort to convey the hard science and complicated statistical data behind the story, ________ is probably occurring.
    
    1. 
       The digital divide
       
    2. 
       Market segmentation
       
    3. 
       Gatekeeping
       
    4. 
       Technophilia
       
       
       

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GLOSSARY

cyberfeminism: the Internet’s application to and promotion of feminism online
gatekeeping: the sorting process by which thousands of possible messages are shaped into a mass media-appropriate form and reduced to a manageable amount
panoptic surveillance: a form of constant monitoring in which the observation posts are decentralized and the observed subject is never communicated with directly
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