CONTEMPORARY TOPICS 1
UNIT 1. PSYCHOLOGY : Happiness
Good morning, everybody. Today I want to get started with the main topic of this course; Happiness. First, I want to talk about how psychologists like myself measure happiness. Then we'll look at some common characteristics of happy people. And finally, we'll look at whether or not we can change our level of happiness, in other words
newspaper, we play CDs on the way to work, we listen to a radio talk show on the way home, we use email to contact friends etc.
Time is attention: Demand for leisure is affected in a complicated way by the cost of time to both produce and consume entertainment products. E.g. reading a book uses more time per dollar of goods than frequenting a nightclub. Like money, attention has instrumental va
media dominating social communications. The problem is that women's body images revealed by mass media is chosen by intentions of producers and these images strengthen or dby int the predominant relationships betweeital ders pitreality. Therefore mass media play a pivotal role in customizing and socializing oppressive attitudes and thoughts.
In particular in case of a modern capitalistic soc
◆ Modern Society and Web 2.0
Web 1.0 era as the word of "sea of information", we are exposed to a lot of information. Regardless of distance and time, we can easily send information as well as our own private information. Also, the amount of data, in 1989, the European Particle Physics in Switzerland, developed hypertext and MOSAIC invented first web browser in 1993. Those changes helped to
Abstract
Due to the rapid development of internet society, Korean society in economic, cultural, social aspects is influenced by internet, instead of former mainstream media. The internet utilization on politics, however, was trivial. Despite its underdevelopment of internet usage on politics, with world trends of expansion of internet use, South Korea’s internet society on politics started t
Status report 1: Industry/Company review
Description of industry
Trends in the Smartphone market are constantly changing. This is the beginning of “Smart Life Revolution” which enables information gathering, personal tasking, building a social relationship, leisure activities just by using Smart-Phones. Nowadays, it is possible for us to search and share information, and deliver our me
Introduction
A. Chosun Daily’s background
1) History
Chosun Daily gets its name from Korea's last dynasty in Korean history. The Chosun Ilbo Establishment Union was created in September 1919, and the Chosun Daily company was founded on March 5, 1920. The newspaper was critical of, and sometimes directly opposed, the actions of the pro-Japanese government during Japanese colonial ru
Introduction of Clay Shirky
An American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies
A social media theorist
Other writers
Steven Pinker
An experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist author of popular science writing
New technologies are the only things that would keep us smart
media. He thinks that we have the self-control, so we can turn off e-mail or Twitter when we work, put away our Blackberry at dinner time, ask our friends or parents to call you to bed at a designated hour. In addition, the Internet and information technologies are helping us manage, search and retrieve our collective intellectual output at different scales, from Twitter and previews to e-books a
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Authority → high reliability
Good to deliver information(reading)
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Moms are interested in components related to living
Moms want to save money for her family
Mileage card
: Saving some percent of purchasing price and al