Luke uses mobile phones as an example of how technology has “enhanced the homogenising effects of economic globalisation.”
Claire connects technological neutrality to online trolling.
Emma and Mary provide good descriptions of what simulacra means and give popular culture examples.
J’aime talks about the relationship between Apple and culture from a poststructuralist perspective.
India talks about the limits of thinking about the world as a global village due to technology restrictions in some regions of the world.
Today, in the lecture, I used some contemporary examples to think about how media technologies can be analysed through technological deterministic, cultural materialistic, and poststructuralist lenses.
Aaron Dickinson Sachs in a media res article talks about how Netflix would be analysed from a technological determinist perspective.
Reference: Dickinson Sachs, Aaron. “Watching Netflix — Critical Commons.” Video. In Media Res: A Media Commons Project. N.p., 2 Dec. 2013. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.
Internet censorship is a good example to see how cultural forces impact the implementation, format, and content of technologies. North Korea is a country where Internet use is at it’s lowest. Matthew Sparks and Tong-Hyung Kim and Youkyung Lee talk about how the Internet functions in North Korea as a result certain governmental forces.
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