How Facebook Reshapes Friendship, Identity, and Culture
This is a six page paper about new media. In particular, the paper addresses Henry Jenkins and Larry Gross who have respectively argued for thinking about new media in terms of democratization and visibility. However, Sherry Turkle in an interview with Robin Marantz Henig article describe the downside of social media. The paper focuses on Facebook in the discussion.
Feminist Advocacy of a Social Issue in Contemporary Culture
Although there is not absolute consensus, popular writings about feminism suggest that there have been three waves of feminism: (1) The first wave of feminism is said to have occurred in the 18th through the 20th centuries and was characterized by a focus on suffrage; (2) The decades spanning 1960 to 1990 are said to encompass the second wave of feminism, to which a concern with cultural and legal gender inequality is attributed; and (3) The third wave of feminism began in the early 1990s partly in response to the conservative backlash the second wave engendered, and partly in recognition of the unrealized goals of the second wave of feminism up to that time. This third wave of feminism made salient a more subjective voice that pointed at the intersection of race and gender with greater resolve than would have been possible when civil rights issues garnered the lions' share of public attention.