Media life exam

1. Today we all live a media life. Academics approach the notion of understanding the relationship between the social (life) and the technology (media) in different ways. Some argue that technology is all-powerful; that it shapes our society. Others argue that it is society (or: the social) that shapes technology. Perhaps both are wrong, and the right answer is something else. What perspective would you choose? Defend your choice with an example from your own media use. - correct answers I think that technology shapes our society. Much like how Steve Jobs famously believed that "people dont know what they want until you show them", I believe that technology has continually reshaped society, showing us how to act. The advent of apps like twitter changed the way we thought of a sentence, of a thought, much the same way Instagram changed the way we thought of documentation, and photographing ourselves... 2. What makes the "Life in a Day" video (compiled by Ridley and Tony Scott for YouTube) such a crucial document to understand media life? - correct answers That people didn't mind sharing the very intimate parts of their lives with a corporation. Things they would never share on FB (toilet, showers) were sharing with YouTube, and they trusted that what they shared would be okay once they turned it over. 3. What do vital materialism and agential intra-action have in common? - correct answers 1. vital materialism: materials that can influence how life may seem. 2. intra-action: everything has an effect on each other. Both show how materials/matter have an effect on life and your experiences. 4. From what we know about how people (especially teens) use media, our estimations of the hours that we report we spend engaging with media are dramatically less than the actual amount of time we spend with media. Name media usage trends that explain this discrepancy. - correct answers -This is because media is infused into everything we do, we do not live with media anymore, in fact we live in media. When we discuss engaging with media, we are usually referring to technology as devices/artifacts (wires and plugs). However, we fail to realize that media is much more than that. -media technology is simply a part of our DNA, it shapes everything about us. -metaphysical issues defining reality and unreality, truth or falsity and media and life -humachines-intimate mixing of human and machines that constitutes an interface outside the subject/object binary.