COMM 3120 Exam 3 Study Guide questions and 100%
correct answers A+
1. Define the received view The stories we tell ourselves about
technology always leading us towards
progress, conve- nience, determinism,
and control
2. Define articulation The work of making or breaking
contingent connections or relations
3. Define assemblage A particular constellation of articulations
that selects, draws together, stakes
out, and en- velops a territory that
exhibits some tenacity and ettectivity
4. How can we conceptualize Technologies are arrangements of
technologies as part of
articula- tions
assemblages?
Interconnectivity of humans and
technologies "Assemblages are maps of
5. What do S&W say about the
relationship power relations,
between politics, the economy, and tech- which in turn work to shape and
transform po-
nology litical and economic possibilities and
? relations of power and agency."
6. The political question of assemblages What relations of power and agency
are pro-
duced?
7. The economic question of assemblages How is economic value produced and
distrib-
uted?
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, COMM 3120 Exam 3 Study Guide questions and 100%
correct answers A+
8. How do assemblages produce Space and time are "deeply cultural,"
territories and temporalities?
not ab- stract quantities that can be
(time and space)
objectively mea- sured
technologies empower the
9. What is time biased media
maintenance of culture in time, over
according to Innis?
limited space, and those
2/
10
correct answers A+
1. Define the received view The stories we tell ourselves about
technology always leading us towards
progress, conve- nience, determinism,
and control
2. Define articulation The work of making or breaking
contingent connections or relations
3. Define assemblage A particular constellation of articulations
that selects, draws together, stakes
out, and en- velops a territory that
exhibits some tenacity and ettectivity
4. How can we conceptualize Technologies are arrangements of
technologies as part of
articula- tions
assemblages?
Interconnectivity of humans and
technologies "Assemblages are maps of
5. What do S&W say about the
relationship power relations,
between politics, the economy, and tech- which in turn work to shape and
transform po-
nology litical and economic possibilities and
? relations of power and agency."
6. The political question of assemblages What relations of power and agency
are pro-
duced?
7. The economic question of assemblages How is economic value produced and
distrib-
uted?
1/
10
, COMM 3120 Exam 3 Study Guide questions and 100%
correct answers A+
8. How do assemblages produce Space and time are "deeply cultural,"
territories and temporalities?
not ab- stract quantities that can be
(time and space)
objectively mea- sured
technologies empower the
9. What is time biased media
maintenance of culture in time, over
according to Innis?
limited space, and those
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10
