SOC317H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Prosumer, Technological Determinism, Black Lives Matter
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How can phones be mandatory but also controlling. History (1876-today: product of the industrial resolution, taken for granted now, 80-90, key technological infrastructure, no more being attached to a physical space, highly mobile, you phone is always with you. Allow us to think di erent: how does technology involve. Paradoxical: they pull you together and pulls you apart. Theorizing technology: the integral accident", it creates problems and accidents, negative concequesnces, technological determinism, tech is number one, widely discredited, dystopian view of tech, simplistic, its not the only cause. Paradox 2: the loneliness of connections, smart phones change the way we connect with people, we don"t have face to face interactions, face to face interaction becomes weird, its harder to interacting with meaning. Postitve side: social capital, we have more networks, sociality= the degree to which humans cooperate and form social bonds, social capital a resource, robert- if you are actively engaged in tech communities it related to social capital.
