COMM 3120 Exam 3 questions with
complete solutions
define the received view - correct answer ✔✔Stories we tell ourselves about Technology (progress,
convenience, Determinism (technological, cultural), and control)
define articulation - correct answer ✔✔Contingent connections or relations
The work of making or breaking connections
define assemblage - correct answer ✔✔A particular constellation of articulations that selects, draws
together, stakes out, and envelops a territory that exhibits some tenacity and effectivity
The process of selecting and arranging elements and relations
Know what S&W say about the relationship between politics, the economy, and technology - correct
answer ✔✔"technology is integral to an assemblage in which political and economic work is performed"
"technological culture is political and it is economic"
Understand the political question of assemblages - correct answer ✔✔What relations of power and
agency are produced?
Along with the economic question of assemblages - correct answer ✔✔How is economic value produced
and distributed?
Understand how assemblages produce territories and temporalities (time and space) - correct answer
✔✔Space and time are "deeply cultural" not abstract quantities that can be objectively measured
Space and place are not containers in which activity takes place; they are "a process of intersecting,
multiple, relative, and differential spatial processes.
, Time is not a "uniform, absolute, and shared phenomenon." Rather, "temporalities are productions of
relations and effects in space".
What are time and space biased media according to Innis? - correct answer ✔✔Time biased (voice,
natural world, writing in clay and stone): Technologies empower maintenance of culture in time, over
limited space, and those who can remember and retell stories.
Space biased (writing on papyrus and paper, print): technologies empower extension of culture in space
and those who can manipulate writing.
How do S&W define identity? - correct answer ✔✔"A sense of unity and coherence that can be felt,
lived, and attributed"
An expression of an assemblage
Understand how we experience identity as part of shifting assemblages - correct answer ✔✔Multiple
shifting assemblages leads to multiple selves
What is a differentiating machine? - correct answer ✔✔Systems of categorization, embedded
assumptions and practices of normalization (Ex: think about bridges in long Island, technology is used to
differentiate people)
Know how space and place function as assemblage and not a container for activity - correct answer
✔✔Space is a process of intersecting processes
Time is a production of relations and effects in space
Assemblage approach: what kinds of temporal and spatial relations are produced by different
compositions of humans, nonhumans, and technologies?
What is the "shadow self made of data"? **p.197 - correct answer ✔✔Data that exist on us - shadow
self made of data is how these things are intertwined with us
complete solutions
define the received view - correct answer ✔✔Stories we tell ourselves about Technology (progress,
convenience, Determinism (technological, cultural), and control)
define articulation - correct answer ✔✔Contingent connections or relations
The work of making or breaking connections
define assemblage - correct answer ✔✔A particular constellation of articulations that selects, draws
together, stakes out, and envelops a territory that exhibits some tenacity and effectivity
The process of selecting and arranging elements and relations
Know what S&W say about the relationship between politics, the economy, and technology - correct
answer ✔✔"technology is integral to an assemblage in which political and economic work is performed"
"technological culture is political and it is economic"
Understand the political question of assemblages - correct answer ✔✔What relations of power and
agency are produced?
Along with the economic question of assemblages - correct answer ✔✔How is economic value produced
and distributed?
Understand how assemblages produce territories and temporalities (time and space) - correct answer
✔✔Space and time are "deeply cultural" not abstract quantities that can be objectively measured
Space and place are not containers in which activity takes place; they are "a process of intersecting,
multiple, relative, and differential spatial processes.
, Time is not a "uniform, absolute, and shared phenomenon." Rather, "temporalities are productions of
relations and effects in space".
What are time and space biased media according to Innis? - correct answer ✔✔Time biased (voice,
natural world, writing in clay and stone): Technologies empower maintenance of culture in time, over
limited space, and those who can remember and retell stories.
Space biased (writing on papyrus and paper, print): technologies empower extension of culture in space
and those who can manipulate writing.
How do S&W define identity? - correct answer ✔✔"A sense of unity and coherence that can be felt,
lived, and attributed"
An expression of an assemblage
Understand how we experience identity as part of shifting assemblages - correct answer ✔✔Multiple
shifting assemblages leads to multiple selves
What is a differentiating machine? - correct answer ✔✔Systems of categorization, embedded
assumptions and practices of normalization (Ex: think about bridges in long Island, technology is used to
differentiate people)
Know how space and place function as assemblage and not a container for activity - correct answer
✔✔Space is a process of intersecting processes
Time is a production of relations and effects in space
Assemblage approach: what kinds of temporal and spatial relations are produced by different
compositions of humans, nonhumans, and technologies?
What is the "shadow self made of data"? **p.197 - correct answer ✔✔Data that exist on us - shadow
self made of data is how these things are intertwined with us
