MDSA01H3 : lecture points
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Lecture 2 key points: technology encourages major changes in social organization, history of communication is important to human history, all contemporary and communication technologies are extensions of basic, innate human, technological determinism: communication capacities. Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that presumes that a society"s technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values. Idea of progress : 18th century, enlightenment, technology=progress. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. ---technological determinism. The tools we use to think change the ways in which we think ---technological determinism: what did you learn in mdsa02=> discuss idea of progress, sheds light on the negative aspects of technological change.
