SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neil Postman, Social Reality, Vacuum Cleaner

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3116
• Professor: Tonio Sadik

Document Summary

This course focuses on technology that we use in our daily lives. Ict= these specific tech we use all the time. Technology helps us with the communication and access to information. But it encroaches our capacities as a human species because these technologies serve as distractions to inhibit our focus. Videos and readings will not be cumulative. We are all users of technology, benefited from technology, and have been frustrated by technology. This course focuses on the idea of being frustrated by technology, the scenario of encountering a challenge that we cannot figure out. Also, examining critically the ways in which technology shapes our environment i. e. our social reality. Social reality speaks to how we see the world. We don"t tend to realize how our understanding of the world (how we see the world around us) is shaped and is reflective of particular things about the world, unless until they are reflected back to us.