SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Normal Accidents, Risk Society, Web 2.0
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Technology and media: practical application of scientific principles to improve human life, human progress, use technology to improve our lives, ex. Like in earthquakes we build houses that: modernization, calculability, taming of risk through science last more. Risk society: most of our anxiety and risks arise from processes of science and technology, modernization, industrialization, globalization, generalized fear and anxiety, ambiguous, widespread, chronic threats. Normal accidents complexity of modern technology: accidents that occur inevitably through unpredictability because of the very, result through technological complexity, sometimes they"re okay but sometimes they"re really catastrophic. Needs a direction and a medium through which to travel. People got a new pressing machine and people started to actually start reading the bible and encouraged people to become literate: democratic movements government) Need to make public all the government document (open and transparent. Need people who can read, write and work with numbers.
