COMS 3400 Lecture 4: Technology and Morality

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 3400
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

The design of something to do something you may not have been able to do before. An applied scientific knowledge (i. e. a phone, other products) Technology includes many factors, it"s a systematic assemblage (social, political, etc. ) Enhances performance (laptops, athletic, performance gear, analytics) Extends the possibilities of things we can do. The application of scientific knowledge has questions within it that have to do with ethics and values. The characterization of technology allows us to do things we aren"t able to do. Technologies aren"t neutral, they"re designed a certain way. Media brings more suffering into the world, and we are witnesses.