{"id":18100,"date":"2023-05-01T00:25:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T00:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/what-aspect-of-the-course-was-most-successful-and-interesting-for-you-identify-two-readings\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T00:25:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T00:25:52","slug":"what-aspect-of-the-course-was-most-successful-and-interesting-for-you-identify-two-readings","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/what-aspect-of-the-course-was-most-successful-and-interesting-for-you-identify-two-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"what aspect of the course was most successful and interesting for you. Identify two readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;we reflect on how we, as individuals and as a society, interact with technology. Are<\/span><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">our technologies developed for human well-being, adapted to human needs and purposes? Or are we,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">humans, continually forced to adapt to technology? A common belief is that technology allows us to&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">become more fully human, both by reducing the need for human labor and by increasing efficiency,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">convenience, and comfort. Machines work so that we do not have to. For some, that is<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">progress<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\u2013<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">technological change is synonymous with progress. Others are more ambivalent. They argue that&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">technology is not a mere instrument. Rather, technology shapes human goals, values, practices, and<\/span><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">relationships. So, to regard technology as a mere instrument is, in the end, to instrumentalize ourselves&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">and society as well.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">We will use various texts in IAH 206: videos, two podcasts, philosophical and social scientific essays,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">short stories and novels. But the course is organized around two foundational readings. \u201cWhat is&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Philosophy of Technology?\u201d (Andrew Feenberg) presents four paradigmatic ways of thinking about the&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">meaning of technology.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The Critical Media Literacy Guide<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">(Douglas Kellner and Jeff Share)&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">exemplifies one philosophical approach to technology, Critical Theory. The central idea of the book is&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">that the concept of literacy today must include digital literacy, and that such literacy is best gained by&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">creating as well as studying digital texts. The aim of<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">critical<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">media literacy is to strengthen democracy<\/span><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\u2013 specifically, democratic decision-making about technological design and development. Both these&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">readings will frame and inform our approach to course texts.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;we reflect on how we, as individuals and as a society, interact with technology. Areour technologies developed for human well-being, adapted to human needs and purposes? Or are we,&nbsp;humans, continually forced to adapt to technology? 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