AC640 Government, Public Policy, and the Law (Political Communication):Citizens and Culture [2]
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Spin. New York: Basic Books, 1996. ISBN: 0-465-06179-6. 28 pages.
(ii) Paul Rutherford. “Advertising as Propaganda.” Endless Propaganda: The Advertising of
Public Goods. University of Toronto Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-8020-8301-3. 14 pages. Activities and Assignments
3.1 Public Sphere
Instructor-led discussion on week’s readings, podcasts, and unit notes.
3.2 Campaign 640: Team 3 Facilitates Class wide Discussion
Team 3 moderates discussion on the Campaign 640 discussion board.
3.3 Campaign 640: Team 4 Presentation
Team 4 presents on their choice of topic in the Campaign 640 discussion board.
3.4 Midterm exam due
Please place midterm exam in dropbox.
3.5 Public Sphere
Instructor-led discussion on week’s readings, podcasts, and unit notes.
3.6 Campaign 640: Team 4 Facilitates Class wide Discussion
Team 4 moderates discussion on the Campaign 640 discussion board.
3.7 Campaign 640: Team 5 Presentation
Team 5 presents on their choice of topic in the Campaign 640 discussion board.
3.8 Final exam questions
Exam questions posted to instructor notices board.
3.9 MSN chat on concepts in unit 3
Instructor facilitates optional MSN chat on concepts from unit 3. Unit Three Notes: Week Five
Keywords for week five:
. social determination of technology (Raymond Williams)
. technological politics (Langdon Winner)
. Situationism (Guy Debord)
. counterculture
. the Frankfurt School and mass culture; Gramsci and hegemony
. culture jamming
. public goods
. game theory
. networks
1. Context and Perspective: Technology and Technological Politics
a. defining technology
“A technology consists of those material objects, techniques, and knowledge (e.g. science,
social goals and interests) that allow human beings to transform and control the inanimate
world.”
From Ronald Westrum, Technologies and Society: The Shaping of People and Things
(Wadsworth, 1992, p. 7)
th
century, “technology”
Like technology itself, the word has evolved over time. In the 17
described the systematic study of the practical arts or artisanal trades, e.g., leatherwork or
th
candlemaking. In the 18
century, the characteristic definition of technology was “a
description of the arts, especially the mechanical,” similar to our sense of the word
th
century, technology assumed its modern meaning, coming to refer
“engineering.” In the 19
not just to artisanal trades or engineering, but to the practical, technical, and systematic
pursuit of solutions to problems of all kinds. Do we need to make water safe to drink? Do we
need to license drivers so that they may operate cars? Do we need to cure cancer? These
problems warrant the application of technology.
Technology critics, seeking to disentangle the various factors that technology comprises,
conventionally distinguish three separate dimensions. These are (i) technical devices and
processes—machines or tools as well as non-material phenomena like an algorithm, a theory, or a bureaucratic process; (ii) techniques, which is simply another name for skills
necessary to work with the tools; and (iii) the larger social infrastructure and cultural patterns
in which both (i) and (ii) are located, and which we might call “technological society.” Though
throughout these unit notes the word “technology” will often be used in its familiar form to
refer to technical devices and processes, remember
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