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New Media & Digital Culture (Fall 2019, Dr. Reid) (What's…
New Media & Digital Culture (Fall 2019, Dr. Reid)
Are we as sociable...?
The Social Debate
Internet Connectivity is not the same as Real World Bonding
Connected, but Alone
What's happening to our brains...?
"Reading War & Peace on my iPhone"
Mastering Memory
The Internet Debate
Does the internet make you dumber?
The internet makes you meta-ignorant
Does the Internet make you smarter?
Boredom
People would rather be electrocuted than sit in silence without their phone
Time Well Spent
Experiment: Turning off notifications
Does boredom spur creativity?
Bored & Brilliant
Experiment: Leaving your device at your dorm
Meditation
Who's in control...?
Technological Determanism
"Her" film
The debate of whether technology can progress enough to become humanistic to an extent, even without a corporal body.
Marxian Economics
Boston Unibomber
Hard Determinism / Technology is developing far more than we can control it, and there is nothing we can do about it.
Marshal McLuhan
Soft Determinism
Extensions and Amputations
Nicholas Carr
"Tools of the Mind"
Marvel App Project
Social Shaping of Technology (we influence technology to fit our needs)
actor-network theory (ANT)
“it is mistaken to think of technology and society as separate spheres influencing each other: technology and society are mutually constitutive.”
social construction of technology (SCOT)