COM 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Technological Determinism, Determinism
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Study its genre (romantic comedies, action movies, fantasy novels, rap music) Study its language (word choice, rhetoric, appeals to the audience) Study its narrative (how the study unfolds, who its characters are, plot structure) Study its representation (symbols, stereotypes, treatment of gender, race, class; who is included and who is excluded) Study its context (historical moment, conditions surrounding it production, target and actual audience) Willingness to suspend one"s critical faculties and believe something surreal. Sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment. Leave your critical analysis behind and just go with it, ignore plausibility. Push back on the dominant ideology but that doesn"t mean it"s always right. What it affords you the ability to do. Technology is in control not humans, has all the agency. Overwhelming effects of technologies on users, organizations, and societies. Technology as an extra force introduced to society.
