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What is technological utopianism?
technology brings an idyllic human society on earth.
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What is technological dystopianism?
idea that technology brings about a chaotic undesirable human society on earth
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How does Lotz feel about the ultimate impact of technology?
It depends on a range of factors that come from both within and beyond the technology itself.
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What is technological determinism?
- theoretical perspective that says that a technology's potentialities determine how that technology will affect the media industries and society. It gives strong powers to the technologies surrounding us.
- An example would be tech utopianism and dystopianism.
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What is cultural determinism?
The belief that the cultural uses of technology determine how that technology influences industry and society
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What is a result of digitalization?
piracy.
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Do all technologies have inherent potentialities?
Yes, and they are only partly understood by the creators and distributors. These intersect with culture, regulation, and economics.
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What is the Circuit of Cultural Production?
- A model that identifies 5 cultural processes that affect cultural goods:
- identity
- representation
- production
- consumption
- regulation
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What is a model for understanding the complexity of technological change?
circuit of cultural production
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What is representation?
The attributes or characteristics that the company making the technology tries to associate with
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What is identity?
attributes, characteristics, and purposes that come to be associated with technology regardless of manufacturer's intent.
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What is production?
- considers how-
- processes of production,
- systems of organization,
- aspects such as how it is manufactured and where,
- and what type of company owns it all
- -contribute to use of technology
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What is consumption?
incorporates how audiences/consumers use the technology examining who uses it and how do they use it?
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What is regulation?
- formal regulation enforced by government
- informal regulation such as manufacturing norms agreed upon within industries or norms of use adopted by those using technology
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What is a natural monopoly?
some industries can only operate efficiently and profitably if they are controlled by a single monopoly organization.
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What are common carriers?
telecommunications network operators that do not originate media content, such as the telephone industry
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What does it mean to cross-subsidize?
it is a means to use profits from one business activity to cover losses in another, a common practice in media conglomerates.
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What are three principles at play in economics and regulation?
- 1. Industry structure: natural monopolies and common carriers
- 2. Cross subsidies
- 3. Localism
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What is remediation?
When production practices and textual features of a new medium influence an older medium.
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Does technology change media texts?
No, but it does open up opportunities for new textual practices that certain entrepreneurs pursue
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