Across
- 2. cultural resources that are deemed worthy and give advantages to groups that have them
- 4. the spread of technology across borders
- 5. the application to and promotion of feminism online
- 9. any form of print, digital, or electronic means of communication
- 11. a form of constant monitoring in which the observation posts are decentralized and the observer is never communicated with directly
- 13. the uneven access to technology around race, class, and geographic lines
- 16. the act of a tech company planning for a product to be out of date from the time it's created
- 18. the cross-cultural development and exchange of technology
- 19. a result in which people are too overwhelmed with media information to be able to care about the issue
- 20. the sorting process by which thousands of possible messages are shaped into a mass media appropriate form and reduced to a manageable amount, the power to decide whether or not media will be produced
Down
- 1. argues that mass media just shows the values of the general population
- 3. individuals who see technology as symbolizing the potential for a brighter future
- 6. a process by which fewer and fewer owners control the majority of media outlets
- 7. the concentration of cultural power
- 8. the principle that all internet data should be treated equally by internet service providers
- 10. a situation in which a few firms dominate the marketplace
- 12. a model of technological change that argues that a breakthrough in one form of tech leads to a number of variations
- 14. the fact that some people have more access to information than those who grow up without access to technology
- 15. includes the beliefs, practices, and objects that are part of everyday life
- 17. individuals who see technology as a symbol of the coldness of modern life