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New Media and Digital Culture
Social Shaping
Facebook
Advertisements, videos, and suggested people that correlate what your profile's activity has been lately
Twitter
Cancel culture, life time bans, unclear censorship
Instagram
Likes, comments, anxiety, depression, shaming
YouTube
What should be allowed to be viewed? Do we need to be censored from some things? Where does freedom of speech end?
Digital Self
Google
If Google does all the knowing for us, then what is left for us to do?
We lose the capability to think for ourselves by relying on a search engine to do it for us
We may reach a point where micro chips and holograms are the norm for society
The ideal self and real self clash; online you presents yourself in a way you think is more favorable to those that follow you
Boredom
People would rather be electrically shocked than be alone with nothing to do
Alone with your thoughts: can you do it?
Determinism
Marshall McLuhan
The Medium is the Message
Believed a medium was an extension of ourselves or our senses; hammer extends arm, binoculars extends vision
Unabomber (Ted Kacinsky)
Although insane, he was highly intelligent and in his manifesto predicted the reliance on technology that we currently experience today
1970s-1996 terrorized the nation with mail-delivered bombs to draw attention to the technological progress the country was making and how quickly
Technological Determinism
Theory that assumes a society's technology determines the development of its social structure and cultural values
Hard vs Soft
Hard = technology created regardless of society, we organize ourselves to meet the needs of technology, we have no control over outcomes
Soft = technology is still guiding force in our evolution, but we have a chance to make decisions that can influence outcomes in situations
Her
A Spike Jonze film about a man entering a "relationship" with his Operating Service
Could this be the future? If so, is this what people want the future to be like?
Brings up the dilemma of what a relationship consists of, as well as if it possible to have one with a machine
Marvel App
Created an app we thought would service a need that people have in today's day and age
It's not always easy to be original
Apps are designed to be as efficient as possible as well as engaging, failing in one or both categories could lead to apps failure
Ray Kurzweil
Technological Singularity
Computers and artificial intelligence increases exponentially every year
By the year 2029, we will have successfully reverse engineered the human brain
Smartphones
Smartphones are designed to distract you and disengage you from whatever you were paying attention to
Reading War and Peace on my Iphone
Alone but together
Smartphones create a sense of isolation from one another, breaking down social skills and interpersonal abilities