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Headings: 
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 power division: The information rich have good access to information — especially online, but also through more traditional media such as newspapers, radio, television, and books — and can plan their lives and react to changes in circumstances on the basis of what they know or can find out. The information poor don’t have such access and are vulnerable to all kinds of pressures. Though the information rich are mainly in the industrialized countries and the information poor are mostly in the developing world, similar splits are obvious between prosperous and disadvantaged groups inside industrialized countries. As a consequence information rich people will enjoy more privileges and power. They occupy the major decision making positions of government or any institution and use unprivileged ones for their benefits. Media and economic stratification: New media facilitates its users to create their own economic platform. Bloggers widen their network with their clients, advertise diversified products and generate income through online participation in various commercial activities, and through their contextual information disseminating activities. The large array of people who remain isolated from the digital world become the scapegoat of such advertisement of various cultural products like clothes, movies, domestic needs etc.