COMS 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 3403
• Professor: Tracey P. Lauriault

Document Summary

Apps are prevalent, and are the site of the sociocultural and economic transformation. To study the artifacts for the contemporary computuational turn. To understand how the user"s experience is shaped. To examine its technological mechanism and cultural aspects of it. Studying culture and society through the functions of digital media tech that remediate and shape socio-cultural phenomena. Create an account and document every detail. The study of how social factors affect technological and scientific developments. Ways to see technology: as an extension of man, a way to change your experience and perception of things. Fields of applied science and part of the technological arts. Passive, a tool to be used by humans, materialistic. Abstract, helps to understand the natural world, informs the building of things. A system involving organizations, procedures, symbols, new words, and a mindset. Action-oriented, technology is the goal , technique as the efficiency . How we see the world today is mediated by technology.