COMS 3500- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 42 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Reliability of clockwork becomes a really powerful metaphor through which people understand their life and labour. It becomes almost like an ideal to strive for. Tv: phone is more functional than artistic, entertaining, political, etc. What does it do: a device"s function is often not its original intent (ex: bell and the telephone, reconfigure how people think about themselves, the people around them, and the world. Social effects: devices are not just tools, technologies are designed objects. Any choice is defined by the choosers based on their education, lived experiences, etc. The connection of these senses is built into the design of the object in the conjoined mouth and ear piece. We are at the mercy of the caller and what they want to talk about: we feel we need to pick up due to social convention, social conventions function to soothe people"s nerves.
