ICT 300 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Internet, Technological Determinism, Facebook
12 Oct 2018
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Department
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ICT 300
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Turkle
Necessary Conversations
●“We really didn’t need to keep computers busy. They keep us busy. It is as though we
have become their killer app” (p. 279)
●We are exhausted by the pressure of performance, but online we easily find company
●We enjoy making connections but we hardly ever keep each other’s full attention
●We compromise our privacy because we like what the internet knows about us
●We leave “electronic bread crumbs”
●“We work from home, but our work bleeds into our private lives until we can barely
discern the boundaries between them” (p. 280)
●“The ties we form through the Internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind” (p. 280)
●“We go online because we are busy but end up spending more time with technology and
less with each other” (p. 281)
●Roboticists present the idea that as our population ages, there will not be enough people
to take care of our human needs, and therefore, as a companion, a sociable robot would
be better than nothing (p. 281)
●“The idea of an attentive machine provides the fantasy that we may escape from each
other” (p. 282)
●A robot is an alternative to a person
Symptoms and Dreams
●We dream of sociable robots as we live the flowering of connectivity culture (p. 283)
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●The idea of a robot as a companion servers as a dream as well as a symptom
●“The robot will provide companionship and mask our fears of too risky intimacies” 9p.
283)
●We are disconnected from our real struggles when technology is a symptom
●A symptom has the knowledge of a person’s fears and know that it is too much to bear,
so symptoms disguise such knowledge so the fear isn’t face daily
●When we look at technology as symptom and dream, we shift our attention away from
technology and onto ourselves” (p. 282)
●One may assume that we always want to be social and never alone
●We are emotionally dependent on our online friends
●Things start innocently but end reductively
Emotion Enough
●If we view robot emotions as we do cat and dog emotions, there won’t be a problem
●“Instead of asking whether a robot has emotions, which in the end boils down to how
different constituencies define emotion, we should be asking what kind of relationships
we want to have with machines” (287)
●Simulation turns us into its creatures
●People sometimes try to make their life resemble simulation by heightening their real life
drama or control the people around them
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Document Summary
We really didn"t need to keep computers busy. It is as though we have become their killer app (p. 279) We are exhausted by the pressure of performance, but online we easily find company. We enjoy making connections but we hardly ever keep each other"s full attention. We compromise our privacy because we like what the internet knows about us. We work from home, but our work bleeds into our private lives until we can barely discern the boundaries between them (p. 280) The ties we form through the internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind (p. 280) We go online because we are busy but end up spending more time with technology and less with each other (p. 281) Roboticists present the idea that as our population ages, there will not be enough people to take care of our human needs, and therefore, as a companion, a sociable robot would be better than nothing (p. 281)
