SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Media Bias, Social Control, Hybridity
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Technology: the practical application of scientific principles to improve human life. Allows human progression, modernization, calculability, taming of risk through science. Human need for technology must be coupled with the right technology to cause a huge impact in our lives. Technological determinism: the belief that technology is the main factor shaping human history. Risks arise from processes of science and technology. Influence of military and government on technology. Mass media: print, radio, television, and other communication technologies that reach many people. One organization communicating at a distance to a large magnitude. Communication does not take place through face-to-face interaction but instead mediated through technology. Hegemony domination of certain media over another. Hybridity - integration of new and old technologies. Ubiquity - almost everywhere all the time. Social movement: collective attempts to change all or part of the political or social order by means of rioting, petitioning, striking, demonstrating, and establishing pressure groups, unions, and political parties.
