In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specializes in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when six replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth.
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The shift in the public sphere, influenced by new communication technologies today
-the shift in the public sphere, influenced by new communication technologies, specifically MySpace
-How the public sphere and bourgeois public sphere was theorized by Jurgen Habermas
-the shift in the public sphere in today’s society due to new communication technologies and the World Wide Web and the internet.
-the social effect this shift has had on society’s communication
-discuss Habermas and his theory about the public sphere and how he studies the social practices and the forms of sociability within the middle class.
- A sociologist and social philosopher Habermas was known to be a political animal and fighter for democracy (Gestrich 1996: 414-415).
-discuss the bourgeois public sphere due to the contemporary corruption of the public sphere in the late 1980’s (Gestrich 1996: 420).
-how the public sphere was shifting due to the media revolution of the early modern period and the new spaces of social communication, and the progression it has made to today
-how the public sphere has shifted in today’s society
- According to Habermas, the public sphere has degenerated in a systematic way which has lead to a false space of manipulated publicity (Sikka 2006: 89-99).
-the new communication technologies such as the world wide web, that influence the public sphere today, including websites such as MySpace and face book
-Souls (2008) discusses how Habermas defined the public sphere as a virtual or imaginary community which does not necessarily exist in any identifiable space.
-the multiple public spheres that exist due to the internet having
- New information and communication technologies such as the World Wide Web may contribute to the fragmentation of civil society (Downey & Fenton 2003: 190).
-Particularly with teenagers
-Willoughby (2008) particularly discusses Adolescents who use technology at a high level also might have weaker friendships and lower well-being than those who use technology moderately, given that more time spent on the computer could be a result of less time spent with friend.
Reading:Extract- Blade Runner Book
human (a) 1/ of or relating to people or humankind
2/ having the nature, qualities or characteristics of people or humankind
3/ of or relating to humankind as distinct from God or gods, animals or machines.
(n) a human being
Cassell's Concise Dictionary (1997)
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