First and second submission topics of discussion for chapter 14

Trevor Jones
5/12/16
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Chapter 14 Discussion Topics 

1.  How scale affects our identity.

2.  Benedict Anderson's concept of a nation as an imagined community. 

3.  Connectedness affecting personalized information. 

4.  How connectedness and the internet affects globalization. 

5.  Affect of multiple types of networks on globalization. 

6.  How the digital divide increases the gap between core and periphery countries. 

7.  The concept of Space-Time Compression in global cities. 

8.  How social networks influence revolutions and propaganda. 

9.  How NGO's have an affect through social networking. 

10.  Vertical integration of the media and deciding what's news and what's not.