MDSA02H3 Lecture : 2nd Lecture Notes
Document Summary
History is a narrative constructed around key events and facts. History is subjective and it is always a part of its own historical movement. Historiography: the way you go about conducting history. History of communication is important to human history. Technological determinism: technology drives social structures and culture, your not able to think yourself and technology influences you, people resist this because they don"t believe that technology controls them. Extreme: lead to extreme consequences (people buy into it), believe tech has the ability to transform us. Weak: technology helps you understand society in a better way but does not control you. culture drives technology or does technology come out of the needs from culture. We create it first and then it uses us. If you haven"t made the transition (still illiterate) you"re considered to be ill. Smarter when the information is in the brain= plato.
