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CMST 1111 Final Exam Study SetTechnological Determinism - correct answer ✔✔Theory that assumes that a society's technology
determines the development of its social structure and cultural values
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) - correct answer ✔✔"Technology as Communication linked as social
progress."
Charles A. Beard (1874-1948) - correct answer ✔✔"Technology marches in seven league boots from one
ruthless revolutionary conquest to another, tearing down old factories and industries, flinging up new
processes with terrifying rapidity"
Industrial Revolution (1760) - correct answer ✔✔What Beard wrote about negatively because industry
was taking over and rural places turn into cities while farmers have to become factory workers.
"Sight" Directors - correct answer ✔✔Eran May-raz, Daniel Lazo
Michael L. Smith - correct answer ✔✔"The belief that social progress is driven by technological
innovation, which in turn follows as 'inevitable' course."
Rosalind Williams - correct answer ✔✔"Technology determines history."
Global Village - correct answer ✔✔Simplifying of the whole world into one village through the use of
electronic media // Created by Marshall McLuhan
Technology is 2 things: - correct answer ✔✔1. A predictable path largely beyond cultural or political
influence
2. Society organizes itself to support and develop a technology or technology overall once being
introduced
Hot medium - correct answer ✔✔allows for less participation
,Cold medium - correct answer ✔✔appeals to people on tv
Bruce Bimber - correct answer ✔✔"The idea that technological development determines social
change..."
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1977) - correct answer ✔✔Force in the field, godfather, 6"8, Professor of
University of Toronto, Canadian
There is still a statue of him in the University of Toronto
Age of Television
Heilbroner Argument
(from long reading) - correct answer ✔✔technology is developed step by step and to get where we are
now // ex: A society cannot have nuclear technology without passing through electricity
Charles Bead view on tech - correct answer ✔✔Thought it had a negative impact such as the decline in
farming
McLuhan's Background - correct answer ✔✔English lit, wrote Mechanical Brides
What McLuhan does - correct answer ✔✔Turns on television to find out what it means to be Canadian
What type of theorist was McLuhan? - correct answer ✔✔Media theorist
What McLuhan learns - correct answer ✔✔Stereotypes against Canadians becomes english literature
He understands the power of words to create meaning
, He finds American stories, and there are interpersonal stories but intermediate
US TV Channels - correct answer ✔✔Four channels all located in the US that had lack of representation
and debatable representation
Augmented Reality - correct answer ✔✔Takes a real time photo and puts sometime on top of it,
different than VR
Paradox of McLuhan - correct answer ✔✔McLuhan's media theory seeks to use electronic media to
return original place of self-presence, identity, community - the global village.
McLuhan's biggest goal - correct answer ✔✔A return to the global village, and media will return us there
Half of Canada believes - correct answer ✔✔Only 17% of Canada has a Neo-Nazi problem
More than half of the US has a Neo-Nazi problem
The Mechanical Bride - correct answer ✔✔1951 - Addresses the change in American society from
agrarian to urban population centers with the development of factories and communication effects
accompanying such changes.
palimpsest - correct answer ✔✔a very old document on which the original writing has been erased and
replaced with new writing
- correct answer ✔✔"Something moved society from feudalism - economic ownership by landowners
who became so by exchanging military service for lands - to capitalism"
Dionysus - correct answer ✔✔Grapes + Wine
Grapevine in hair
Perpetual party guy
Expression, debauchery, disorder
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