This assignment asks you to demonstrate your understanding of the frameworks (of the relationship between society and technology) discussed in class. You are to analyze one of the following examples from multiple frameworks, as a way of critiquing it.

Task 1: Select (1) example from the following list of examples:

IBM – The Future Market Commercial –
https://youtu.be/eob532iEpqk (Links to an external site.)

The Guardian – Is television destroying our children’s minds? – https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/jul/21/childrensservices.socialcare (Links to an external site.)
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 & Gear –
https://youtu.be/U8jsDWV8YpQ (Links to an external site.)
Task 2: Write 1 paragraph that analyzes this example from a technological determinist perspective, and explain how this example could demonstrate this perspective. What changes could beattributed to technology? How could technology be described as the main cause of social change?

Task 3: Write 3-5 sentences speculating why a technologically deterministic reading of the example may be appealing. What does it help the author or designer of the example achieve?

Task 4: Drawing from your knowledge of the other frameworks presented in class, social construction of technology or mutual shaping, propose three counterarguments to the logic of technological determinism that you developed in task 2. These arguments should show that technology is NOT the only force driving the changes described. Identify social, economic, and cultural factors that may not be stated in the example, but that would be necessary for the changes in the example to take place. You may list these counterarguments as bullet points, but you must also give a 3-5 sentence explanation of how each social, cultural, and economic factor is a necessary component of the described social change.

Task 5: Write 3-5 sentences speculating why a social construction of technology or a mutual shaping reading of the example might be useful. In what ways could such a reading help understand the example differently than one of technological determinism.

 

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