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Human Beings and Technology
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Human Beings and Technology
An analysis of the relationship between human beings and technology and how the particular drama of a human 'being' itself is played out through practices of multimedia.
1,463 words (approx. 5.9 pages) |
6 sources |
APA | 2004
Paper Summary:
This paper examines the significant impact that digital technologies have had on human subjectivity, or in better words, on the understanding of 'human self' and society. More specifically, this paper discusses human beings' relation to new digital technologies, such as the Internet, interactive video games, MUDs (Multi User Dimensions/Dungeons) and virtual reality.From the Paper:
"While providing a new and more flexible sense of self and identity (Coyne 1998, 340), new technologies and cyberspace do not let human beings completely free of former pre-digital conceptions of 'self' (Cranny-Francis 2000, 146; McRae 1996, 250). There is still complex power relations run behind those cyber interactions, there are group leaders, deviants within communities, hackers, attempts to privacy violations, forcing people to reveal their real life identities and so on. In most cyber communities, for instance, there is still a strong presence of systematic hierarchy either set formally or appears casually in the process of using them."Sample of Sources Used:
- Cranny-Francis, A., 2000, "Connexions', in D. Gibbs & K. Krause (eds.) Cyberlines: The Language of Cyberspace, Albert Park, Vic: James Nicholas Publishers, pp. 123-48).
- Cranny-Francis, A., 2000a, "The Erotics of the (cy)Borg: Authority and Gender in the Sociocultural Imaginary in M.S. Barr (ed) Future Females, the Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism, Lanham, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 145-65.
- Creed, B., 1997, "Screen Sex: From Television to Teledildonics" in Matthews J. (ed) Sex in Public: Australian Sexual Cultures, St.Leonards: Allen & Unwin, pp. 16-30.
- Coyne, R., 1998, "Cyberspace and Heidegger's Pragmatics" in Information Technology and People, Vol. 11, Issue 4.
- Latour, B., 2003, "Do you believe in reality? News from the Trenches of the Science Wars?" in Robert C. Sharff and Val Dusek (eds), Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition. An Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 126-37.
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Human Beings and Technology (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Human-Beings-and-Technology/110115
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"Human Beings and Technology" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Human-Beings-and-Technology/110115>
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Sep 15, 2003 I studied Media and Cultural Studies, have a GPA of 3.5 (over 4), also got published in respected journals, newspapers (in Australia and overseas). All of my essays posted on this site were graded distinction and high distinction at university. I can also speak 3 other languages fluently, and having English as a second language is not a barrier, besides, since I studied it deeply and scrutinized its grammar and rules, it's become an advantage not being a native speaker in academic terms.
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