Media, Information and Technoculture 3000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Falsifiability, Reductionism

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 3000A/B
• Professor: Robert Babe

Document Summary

Designing and critiquing research methods for the digital age week 2 (intro part 2) Authority/a priori authority can be wrong. Science the best way of knowing according to sparks. Is science unique from experience and a priori. 9 properties of science by sparks and critique (by interpretative researchers : systematic observation, observation experiencing/sensing something in the external world not just mental, you"re going out and seeing this! It is evidence: systematic it is being set out to look at, expected to find something and are determining whether your expectations are being met it is planned! Isolate relations: you are isolating what you are looking at. Critique: you can be missing the bigger picture, isolation may not work for the general world, reductionism vs. holism: experimentation/falsification. If experiments don"t work, it means their theories have been falsified. Critiques: interpretations are not falsifiable, there are many subjective truths because everything is interpretation: deterministic a.