Saturday, March 26, 2011

MEDIA AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION

SOCIAL MEDIA & BUILDING INCLUSIVITY: WHO'S ON FIRST, HABERMAS OR FOUCAULT

Prof. Daniel Drache (Prof. Pol. sci & acting director, robarts centre for canadian studies, york university, canada)

The compulsion to share with others is a central imperative of modern life. Today new technologies can liberate us from the confines of categories like the tribe or create new digital ones.
Who is at the bottom of the liberal theory. SHould we consider the new information technology a revolution?

FRANKFURT SCHOOL--refers to a school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory.

HABERMAS--PEOPLE NEED THE public space for use and not exchange value.
Changes in relationsip today is facilitated by the social net-working sites.
Sites like facebook has the largest depository of our private world. There are no more curtain to our personal lives.

GIDDENS Notions of Reflexivity
direct and indirect discrimination which comes in the way of interpersonal relationships.

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