ENGL108D Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lod, Technological Determinism, Knowledge Economy
25 Dec 2016
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Cyberspace: metaphor for online networks popularized in the early 1990s. Dot-com crash: devaluation of stock prices of tech (esp. internet) companies "00 / "01. Luddite: follower of mew ludd who advocated smashing what was then the new sewing machine; someone who opposes new things. Libertarianism: political / economic theory posits the primacy of freedom esp. economic freedom to allow markets to regulate human affairs. Technological determinism: self-determination and internal logic to the evolution of tech. e. g. computers are getting faster all the time . Td) tech. change due to in uence of key social groups. Diffusion of innovations model: spread of innovations w/in a society or market. Political economy approach: examination of the regulation and ownership of media. : study emp. how econ. power in uences opp. and evel. of tech. Knowledge economy: econ. characterized by dependence on knowledge.
