[CMST 1A03] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (45 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 1A03
• Professor: Christine Quail

Document Summary

Technology is a value-neutral tool that helps us achieve our goals more ef ciently. I. e, people use laptops to make faster, neater notes. Technology operates according to an inherent, internal logic. Technology determines society i. e, the laptops don"t just help you take good notes but they help students think more clearly. You can read them better, you can take faster notes. Tech operates according to its own inherent logic at the expense of humanity. We have become slaves to tech. and our desire for greater ef ciency and control. i. e, people are using laptops to take notes because people rely too much on laptops to take notes. effects memory. Humans choose how we develop tech. (social and political decisions) People shape tech, and incorporate it within larger systems (military only had access to internet, however now, everyone does. Socially continent -forms depend on society and what the society values. -rejecting particular tech. Some arise but aren"t successful. (sometimes tech isn"t useful)