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Media and Social Stratification
Digital divide:
Media and social stratification:
Case study:
1) From Rajan’s experience:
2) Mr. Shrestha’s family:
Media and gender discrimination:
Media and power division:
Media and economic stratification:
Media and virtual society:
Media and cultural imperialism:
Media and generation gap:
Conclusion:
— Shekhar KC and Rajan Kathet
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Content: Media and Social Stratification
Posted in Media by Shekhar on January 16, 2009
Social stratification refers to the hierarchical arrangement of different social classes, castes and strata of people within the society. Nineteenth century philosopher Karl Marx’s division of society into Bourgeois and Labor may be the perfect example of social strata of his time but the globalization and the digitization of people’s life has created new kind of social strata at present context. This division exists even between the users of the internet technology and the non-users. ‘ Digital Divide’ includes the imbalances in physical access to technology as well as the imbalances in resources and skills needed to effectively participate as a digital citizen. Digital divide: The fact that nearly 97 percent of the world’s population remain aloof from the internet technology due to lack of money, access, or knowledge depicts the depth of huge gap between the users and nonusers of the media and cultural products. Digital divide is the contemporary emblematic issue of the whole world. It exist among the users, among the non users and finally between the users and non-users. Active users of the media technology have instant access to the information and thus extract economic advantage creating their own stable identity in the virtual society. While unprivileged ones and the passive users of information and technology fail to meet even the minimum standards.