CCT109H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 52 pages long!)

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

Document Summary

3 core themes: technology and people are co-constituted, media expertise -> power, context surrounding technology matters. 1902 france, marconi transmits transatlantic radio signal. 1962 us/uk/france, telstar communication satellite in space (transatlantic signal) Technologies and people) compose each other (co-creation) (ex. how headphones are made for the human ear): ubiquity: existing or being everywhere at the same time (ex. Technological determinism: connection between technology and things happening in the world (gta release and mass shooting). What the technology is doing to constrain or causing a certain kind of behavior. (influenced to act in certain way because of technology). Different notions around the world for copyright (ex. fair use in canada) Understand human ear biology first (before making any type of technological machine you must first understand the human machine/body) Sources of sound send vibrations of sound into air. These funnels go into ear opening down ear canal and strike eardrum causing it to vibrate.