CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cyber-Ethnography, Academic Conference, Dont

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Carraway

Document Summary

Different tools or methods for looking at a topic and different perspectives on that topic are part of your approach to it and together shape your understanding. Counter-hype is the opposite aka technology is making us dumber and the internet is going to be the death of vision and these theorists are not fucking excited for the future (debunk criticism) Cyberspace- a (cid:373)etapho(cid:396) fo(cid:396) o(cid:374)li(cid:374)e (cid:374)et(cid:449)o(cid:396)ks a(cid:374)d (cid:448)i(cid:396)tual (cid:449)o(cid:396)lds popula(cid:396)ized i(cid:374) the ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)"s, fi(cid:396)st i(cid:374) fiction and then in mass media. The term is in declining use as the online and offline worlds merge -> the belief back then was that technology was socially progressive and it was the greatest thing on earth. Dot-com crash- a rapid devaluation of the stock prices in technology companies in late 2000 and 2001, especially those that were based on the internet. Luddite- a follower of nineteenth-century labour activist ned ludd, who advocated smashing what was then the new weaving machine.