[NPF 504] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (48 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Media Studies
• Course: NPF 504
• Professor: Jessica Thom

Document Summary

Npf 504 week 1: what is technology? (cid:862)te(cid:272)h(cid:374)olog(cid:455): the e(cid:373)erge(cid:374)(cid:272)e of a hazardous co(cid:374)(cid:272)ept(cid:863) (cid:271)(cid:455) leo mar(cid:454) Humans have been building on innovations long before there was a term for technology. Society was aware that there were developments causing changes in life style, but society had no name to identify those developments. Whe(cid:374) (cid:862)te(cid:272)h(cid:374)olog(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:449)as (cid:272)oi(cid:374)ed, it repla(cid:272)ed (cid:449)ords su(cid:272)h as (cid:373)e(cid:272)ha(cid:374)i(cid:272)/useful/i(cid:374)dustrial arts, i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374), improvement, machinery, mechanism. There was a need to identify the character of the changes in the mechanic arts as well as the changes in the interrelations between them and the rest of society and culture. The mechanic arts and the changing conception of progress. By the 1840s, developments that contributed to the emergence of technology became apparent; fall into 2 categories: ideological and substantive. First, changes in the prevailing conception of the mechanic arts. Second, the material development of the machinery itself and of the institutional setting from which it emerged.