CMST 1A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Donna Haraway, Harry Braverman, Ursula Franklin

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 1A03
• Professor: Dilyana Mincheva

Document Summary

Technology: machine + knowledge = technology, the device, and the understand of its use, connected to social, political and economic structures, enabling communication across time, space and with unlimited # of interlocutors. Photography, telegraphy, telephony, cinema and radio altered profoundly and permanently our sense of time and space. Perspectives on technology: derives from the greek work techne: art, craft or skill. Deskilling: simplify complex tasks into components for workers in conjunction with machines. Marx saw that the emergence of machinery and the increasing workers(cid:495) control over the labour process since workers(cid:495) skills shifted into tending the machines. The cyborg manifesto: (cid:498)late (cid:884)(cid:882)th century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous, the designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines. (cid:499) particular social, economic and political context. They arise out of a social structure, they are grafted on to it, and they may reinforce it and destroy it, often in ways that are neither.