Making new media made sense

Published on Nov 22, 2015

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Making new media made sense

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As humans, we
observe and
experience.

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Anxiety

Anticipation

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Avoidance

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Acceptance

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As social scientists,
we take it a step further and develop theory to describe, explain and predict.

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reflective

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productive

Stages or states?

  • Technological determinism
  • Social construction of tech
  • Social shaping of tech
  • Domestication
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Flavors of tech determinism

(and an excuse to add a pic of cats)
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Technology enters our lives

  • affects directly
  • impacts the more it's used
  • influences us as individuals
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Optimistic?

Avoid or seek better technology.
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Pessimistic?

Tech impacts-imprints us
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Popular themes

Utopian, dytopian and just plain "out there"
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Social construction

Social process influences outcomes

Technology is invented/adopted

  • Intent and actual use
  • Social and cultural factors
  • Power of the user
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Optimistic?

Power to the people
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Pessimistic?

Moral panic
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Social shaping

somewhere in the middle...
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Domestication

because cats are really responsible for the Internet
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Metatheoretical considerations

  • Epistemology - knowledge
  • Ontology - existence
  • Axiology - value
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