Reading 1
Media Technology and Society -Brian Winston
So while I was reading, besides, that it was hard to see what the article was actually trying to tell me... society affects technology. Who doesn't know that? I'm not sure the circle diagrams told me much. I think if he explains the diagrams more in the book, I'll get a lot more out of it.
Noam Chomsky is a great political and human rights activist. I enjoy reading his works, on politics. But as a linguist? He said he never taught a child a language (so he didn't know how people actually aquire their first language, even though he has three children) and he never learned a forign language himself. How can he be a linguist? Don't you need to practice something before you can figure out the theory? Anyway, hes theories on linguistics always seem a bit odd to me.
"As a society we are schizophrenic about machines." How is being wary of new technology, knowing its inevitible, and trying to fit it into our current social patterns schirzophrenic? That seems like a perfectly logical reaction. How would he want us to react?
LLC's are new, weren't they made in 1977? Not in the last century?
Why is he quoting Louis Carroll?? Couldn't he just say, not full suppression, or use another word altogether? Clio's graments, Popper? What is he trying to do, show he's culturally educated? Ok, so maybe I shouldn't be writing my blog after reading, http://realitysteve.com/2006/10/bachelor-recap-10206.html and having a huge headache and cold =)
So while I was reading, besides, that it was hard to see what the article was actually trying to tell me... society affects technology. Who doesn't know that? I'm not sure the circle diagrams told me much. I think if he explains the diagrams more in the book, I'll get a lot more out of it.
Noam Chomsky is a great political and human rights activist. I enjoy reading his works, on politics. But as a linguist? He said he never taught a child a language (so he didn't know how people actually aquire their first language, even though he has three children) and he never learned a forign language himself. How can he be a linguist? Don't you need to practice something before you can figure out the theory? Anyway, hes theories on linguistics always seem a bit odd to me.
"As a society we are schizophrenic about machines." How is being wary of new technology, knowing its inevitible, and trying to fit it into our current social patterns schirzophrenic? That seems like a perfectly logical reaction. How would he want us to react?
LLC's are new, weren't they made in 1977? Not in the last century?
Why is he quoting Louis Carroll?? Couldn't he just say, not full suppression, or use another word altogether? Clio's graments, Popper? What is he trying to do, show he's culturally educated? Ok, so maybe I shouldn't be writing my blog after reading, http://realitysteve.com/2006/10/bachelor-recap-10206.html and having a huge headache and cold =)
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