[CRM3326] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (25 pages long)
5 Oct 2016
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Techno is at the center of human history, it defines the nature of human existence: stone age, iron age, digital age. Post humanism and cyborgs: through the use of technology such as electronics, even contacts and glasses. As criminologist, techno is key to our work: how so: use technologies in order to assess neighbourhoods, bring the victimization rate lower, evaluate psychopathic tendencies. Three views on technology: the received view. Is the way we think about techno right now. 95% of what we think of techno will fall under this view: the critical view. Brain washed by critical perspective on technology: the technocultural approach. What will be learned in this class. See technology as a mediator and as articulation. Not techno and culture but technoculture: not as two different views, but try to see the two as completely meshed. Is based on four pillars, not completely distant from one other: 1.
