MDSB10H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sociotechnical System, Exhibitionism, Social Forces
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In this section, you will be asked to provide definitions for a total of five terms taken from the list below, worth 3 marks each. You will not know which five terms will be on the test until you see the actual exam. Combination" of hardware and people (and usually other elements) to accomplish tasks that humans cannot perform unaided by such systems": technology is not just the phones in our pockets and the laptops in our bags. This concept has, in turn, informed much scholarship on small screen technology like ipods and cellphones. Yet scholars like anna mccarthy and marsha cassidy have charged that media scholarship is too often predicated on a privatization thesis that elides the often-public uses of and pleasures in visual media. 2: technological momentum (hughes, hughes"s thesis is a synthesis of two separate models for how technology and society interact. Technology is defined contextually and locally by the particular technology/society relationship.
