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.
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◆ 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