COMM 3120 EXAM 2 questions with
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the received view - correct answer ✔✔Stories we hear about technology and its
relationship with culture “Video games make kids violent"
explain technological and cultural determinism - correct answer ✔✔Technology is
the cause, culture is the effect
Culture is the cause and technology the effect
What does Marcuse identify as true needs? - correct answer ✔✔vital needs
(Nourishment, clothing, lodging at the attainable level of culture)
What has caused us to become one-dimensional? - correct answer ✔✔When
technological control is complete, the one-dimensional man is created.
How did the Frankfurt School answer the question of why Marx's revolution to
overthrow capitalism hadn't occurred? - correct answer ✔✔• Advanced industrial
society is providing an improved standard of living, broader access to material
goods, and a sense of progress.
• Culture industries and mass culture promote a society of conformist,
consumerist, uncritical individuals ("false needs").
What is Slack and Wise's definition of technological culture? - correct answer
✔✔foregrounds the interconnectedness within which things appear, are
developed, and have effects
, What does McLuhan mean when he writes that "the medium is the message"? -
correct answer ✔✔the 'content' of any medium is always another medium. The
content of writing is speech, just as the written word is the content of print, and
print is the content of the telegraph
How might technologies like an electric light serve as an example of a medium for
McLuhan? - correct answer ✔✔People could stay out longer in cities
what is the difference between a materialist approach and a content-oriented
approach. - correct answer ✔✔How are social networks part of arrangements of
data collection, storage, and processing?
How do audiences make sense of information they view on social media?
How does Peters characterize media? - correct answer ✔✔
Why does an expansive definition of media matter? - correct answer ✔✔Media is
provides world enabling infrastructures and a way to experience the world, Media
is fundamentally logistical
How can we best define agency according to Slack and Wise? - correct answer
✔✔the power and ability to do something
• Agency is something possessed by agent
How is an actor is defined in Actor Network Theory (ANT) - correct answer ✔✔
correct answers A+ passed
the received view - correct answer ✔✔Stories we hear about technology and its
relationship with culture “Video games make kids violent"
explain technological and cultural determinism - correct answer ✔✔Technology is
the cause, culture is the effect
Culture is the cause and technology the effect
What does Marcuse identify as true needs? - correct answer ✔✔vital needs
(Nourishment, clothing, lodging at the attainable level of culture)
What has caused us to become one-dimensional? - correct answer ✔✔When
technological control is complete, the one-dimensional man is created.
How did the Frankfurt School answer the question of why Marx's revolution to
overthrow capitalism hadn't occurred? - correct answer ✔✔• Advanced industrial
society is providing an improved standard of living, broader access to material
goods, and a sense of progress.
• Culture industries and mass culture promote a society of conformist,
consumerist, uncritical individuals ("false needs").
What is Slack and Wise's definition of technological culture? - correct answer
✔✔foregrounds the interconnectedness within which things appear, are
developed, and have effects
, What does McLuhan mean when he writes that "the medium is the message"? -
correct answer ✔✔the 'content' of any medium is always another medium. The
content of writing is speech, just as the written word is the content of print, and
print is the content of the telegraph
How might technologies like an electric light serve as an example of a medium for
McLuhan? - correct answer ✔✔People could stay out longer in cities
what is the difference between a materialist approach and a content-oriented
approach. - correct answer ✔✔How are social networks part of arrangements of
data collection, storage, and processing?
How do audiences make sense of information they view on social media?
How does Peters characterize media? - correct answer ✔✔
Why does an expansive definition of media matter? - correct answer ✔✔Media is
provides world enabling infrastructures and a way to experience the world, Media
is fundamentally logistical
How can we best define agency according to Slack and Wise? - correct answer
✔✔the power and ability to do something
• Agency is something possessed by agent
How is an actor is defined in Actor Network Theory (ANT) - correct answer ✔✔
