Social media

Social media

Social media is the medium through which internet users can contact and share information over the internet.

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absolute poverty

Culture; Social media

Also known as subsistence poverty, this is an idea of poverty derived from the minimum requirements for subsistence: what a person must have to live and to make a living.

accommodation

Culture; Social media

When used to describe relations between discrete populations (defined, for example, by ethnicity or religion) the term suggests groups finding ways of co-existing without losing their defining ...

commodification

Culture; Social media

In Marxist political economy, commodification takes place when economic value is assigned to something not previously considered in economic terms; for example, an idea, identity or gender. So ...

consumer culture

Culture; Social media

Consumer culture refers both to the interest that citizens have in the consumption aspects of their lives and to the industries that have developed to cater to this taste.

cultural imperialism

Culture; Social media

Cultural imperialism is the practice of promoting a more powerful culture over a least known or desirable culture. It is usually the case that the former belongs to a large, economically or ...

cultural pluralism

Culture; Social media

A situation of plurality of cultures (with the implication that they are co-existing tolerantly). The term is also used to describe a deliberate policy of encouraging awareness and acceptance of ...