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Assignment:
Please answer completely and in accordance with the question.
1. Schools and universities have significant impacts in shaping youth culture. By interacting with their peers, students absorb the current trend and manifest the trend in their daily lives. As the institutions are going online, to what extent the online learning shapes social practices and essential elements of youth culture?
2. Online classroom relies heavily on mediated platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet. While the pandemic has opened opportunities for individuals to pursue their education at home, the impacts of technological corporations have been pervasive. Based on the phenomena, identify the fundamental issues of communication that have been shaped by the pandemic, technological innovation, and private corporations?
3. The pandemic and online learning also open the issue of socio-economic inequalities. While internet access has been fundamental during online learning, millions of households around the world still have no internet access.
a. Define the sociological perspective on inequality and apply it to the issue of communication technology.
b. Design the solution to resolve the issue of inequality surrounding online learning during the pandemic.