COMM 3120 EXAM 3 2025 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Define the received view - ANS Stories we tell ourselves about Technology (progress,
convenience, Determinism (technological,cultural), and control)
define articulation - ANS Contingent connections or relations
The work of making or breaking connections
define assemblage - ANS 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 -
ANS "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 - ANS What relations of power and agency
are produced?
Along with the economic question of assemblages - ANS How is economic value produced
and distributed?
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, Understand how assemblages produce territories and temporalities (time and space) -
ANS 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? - ANS 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? - ANS "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 - ANS Multiple
shifting assemblages leads to multiple selves
What is a differentiating machine? - ANS Systems of categorization, embedded assumptions
and practices of normalization (Ex: think about bridges in long Island, technology is used to
differentiate people)
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AND ANSWERS
Define the received view - ANS Stories we tell ourselves about Technology (progress,
convenience, Determinism (technological,cultural), and control)
define articulation - ANS Contingent connections or relations
The work of making or breaking connections
define assemblage - ANS 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 -
ANS "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 - ANS What relations of power and agency
are produced?
Along with the economic question of assemblages - ANS How is economic value produced
and distributed?
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, Understand how assemblages produce territories and temporalities (time and space) -
ANS 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? - ANS 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? - ANS "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 - ANS Multiple
shifting assemblages leads to multiple selves
What is a differentiating machine? - ANS Systems of categorization, embedded assumptions
and practices of normalization (Ex: think about bridges in long Island, technology is used to
differentiate people)
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