COMM 110: EXAM 2
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EnvironmentalCitizenship
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u Environmental Citizenship is an idea that each of us is an integral part of a larger ecosystem and that our future depends on each one of us embracing the challenge and acting responsibly and positively toward our environment. It's about making changes in our daily lives to be environme…
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E waste
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u "Electronic waste" may be defined as discarded computers, office electronic equipment, entertainment device electronics, mobile phones, television sets, and refrigerators. This definition includes used electronics which are destined for reuse, resale, salvage, recycling, or disposal. Ot…
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Agency
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Ñ Agency is the capacity of an agent (a person) to act in a world. The capacity to act does not at first imply a specific moral dimension to the ability to make the choice to act, In sociology, an agent is an individual engaging with the social structure.
Ñ Human agency is the capacity…
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Social Structure
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Ñ Social structure refers to patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of the individuals. On the macro scale, it can refer to the structure of social network ties between individuals or organizations. On the micro scale, it can re…
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GOvernment
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Ñ A government is the system by which a state or community is governed. In the case of its broad definition, government normally consists of legislators, administrators, and arbitrators (individuals). Government is the means by which state policy is enforced, as well as the mechanism for …
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Conspiracy Theory
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explains an important social, political, or economic event as being caused or covered up by a covert group or organization. The term is frequently used by scholars and in popular culture to identify secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at "stealing" power, money, or freedo…
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Conspiracy Theory
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• Clicktivism refers to the use of social media and the Internet to advance social causes. It uses the metrics available through Web analytics to optimize Web pages, emails and online petitions. This optimization is meant to increase user engagement and maximize a campaign's page vie…
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Hacktivism
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Hacktivism is the act of hacking a website or computer network in an effort to convey a social or political message. The person who carries out the act of hacktivism is known as a hacktivist.
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Hacktivism
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Hacktivism addresses a variety of acts that are active and passive - as well as violent and non-violent - and may be falsely interpreted as cyberterrorism. Hacktivism was originally coined to explain how electronic direct action elicits social change through blended programming expertise …
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Astroturfing
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ASROTURFING: Describes formal public relations projects that deliberately seek to engineer the impression of spontaneous grassroots behavior. The goal is the appearance of independent public reaction to a politician, political group, product, service, event, or similar entities by central…
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Crowdsourcing
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Crowdsourcing is a joint process development or problem-solving technique that requires help from a network of people, or crowd. This network is usually connected via the Internet or through a specific website.
Crowdsourcing generally is an outsourcing technique that employs freelance,…
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Radical Politics
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• RADICIAL POLITICS::::(esp. of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough
• characterized by departure from tradition; innovative or progressive
• advocating or based on thorough or complete political or s…
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Manning
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• MANNING: US Army soldier convicted of violations of the Espionage Act among other offenses after relating the largest set of classified documents ever leaked to the public
• Assigned as an intelligence analyst and had access to classified databases
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Snowden
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• SNOWDEN:::: Leaked classified information from the NSA
• Former system administrator for the CIA and counterintelligence trainer at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
• The leaked material revealed numerous global surveillance programs that began the current deba…
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Assange
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• ASSANGEAustralian publisher and journalist better known as editor-in-chief of Wikileaks
• Published U.S. military and diplomatic documents leaked by Manning
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Anomie
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Anomie describes a lack of social norms; "normlessness". It describes the breakdown of social bonds between an individual and their community, if under unruly scenarios possibly resulting in fragmentation of social identity and rejection of self-regulatory values.
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Deviance
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Deviance, in a sociological context, describes actions or behaviors that violate social norms, including formally-enacted rules (e.g., crime) as well as informal violations of social norms (e.g., rejecting folkways and mores). Deviance is relative to time and place because what is conside…
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Extremism
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Extremism (represented on both sides of the political spectrum) is any ideology or political act far outside the perceived political center of a society; or otherwise claimed to violate common moral standards. In democratic societies, individuals or groups that advocate the replacement of…
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Civic Engagement
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Civic engagement or civic participation has been defined as Individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern. Civic engagement has many elements, but in its most basic sense it is about decision making, or governance and about who and how and by …
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Civil Society
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The meaning of the term civil society is contested. It is sometimes considered to include the family and the private sphere, and referred to as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business. It has been defined as
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Popular Culture
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•Popular culture (often short "Pop culture") is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late …
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Semiotics
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The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication. Semiotics involves the study not only of what we refer to as 'signs' in everyday speech, but of anything which 'stands for' something else. In a semiotic sense, signs take the …
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Intellectual Property
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Intellectual property (IP) is a legal concept which refers to creations of the mind for which exclusive rights are recognized.
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Cultural Capital
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The term cultural capital refers to non-financial social assets that promote social mobility beyond economic means.
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Critical Geopolitics
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The term cultural capital refers to non-financial social assets that promote social mobility beyond economic means.
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Resistance
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Cultural resistance is the practice of using meanings and symbols, that is, culture, to contest and combat a dominant power, often constructing a different vision of the world in the process. The practice is as old as history
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COMM 110: EXAM 1