SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Reality, Old Media, Alternative Media

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

Document Summary

If our use of technology is meaningless, empty or full of challenges, it will impact the technology of the future . Role of technology in society: all of us are users to technology in one way or another and have benefited from it, all of us have also been frustrated. The ways in which technology shape our social reality. Social reality: the way that we perceive the world around us. It is a function of where we live, and of other factors that we would never stop listing. It shapes how we see the world, and we live in it. When we talk about our social reality, it is something that we can easily overlook, in the same way that its easy to overlook our own culture. For example, an australian accent is easily recognizable. What we don"t hear is that we have an accent as well (canadian).