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A NEW topic for this assessment may be a study of the: knowledge gap hypothesis
 * The Knowledge Gap Hypothesis ** explains that [|knowledge], like other forms of [|wealth] , is often [|differentially distributed] throughout a social system. Specifically, the hypothesis predicts that “as the infusion of mass media information into a social system increases, higher [|socioeconomic status] segments tend to acquire this information faster than lower socioeconomic-status population segments so that the gap in knowledge between the two tends to increase rather than decrease” [|[1]] Phillip J. Tichenor, then Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, George A. Donohue, Professor of Sociology, and Clarice, N. Olien, Instructor in Sociology – three [|University of Minnesota] researchers – first proposed the knowledge gap hypothesis in 1970.

Take the Four Horsemen metaphor as a reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse_in_popular_culture or a recent Games for Change convention using this image read GAMES FOR CHANGE

http://www.molleindustria.org/blog/making-games-in-a-fucked-up-world-games-for-change-2014/

Go no further than to see the leap to unicode in computing and the people who understand and describe this: media type="custom" key="25587926" align="center"