Technology and Society
One-Dimensional Man
What is a book published in 1964?
The economic dimensions of media and technology.
What is the relationship between wealth and media technologies?
Public sphere.
What is the collection of places where private individuals and elected officials gather together to discuss matters of common concern?
Parasocial relationship.
What is a relationship in which people feel a sense of intimacy and social attachment with the media performers they watch regularly?
The Doomsday scenarios for Artificial Intelligence were used to exemplify these paired concepts.
What is structure and contingency?
The paradoxical effect of technology.
How has technology made our lives easier and yet more convenient, and yet paradoxically left us less free?
The only person in the top 10 wealthiest people who is not in the technology sector.
Who is the investor Warren Buffett?
Agenda setting.
What is the idea that the news media set the public agenda? How does the news media shape not what people think, but has a great influence on what they think about?
These two sociologists were the first to develop the concept of parasocial interactions.
Who are Donald Horton and Richard Wohl?
In 2023, a survey of this number (_______) of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers found that more than half of them believe that there was at least this percentage (______) chance that AI would lead to human extinction or some other extremely bad outcome.
What is: that 2,700 artificial intelligence researchers found that there was at least 5% chance of AI leading to human extinction or some other extremely bad outcome.
The paradox of convenience.
What is a term coined by Herbert Marcuse?
Technology has impacted the structure of inequality in three ways.
What has led to: 1. a greater concentration of wealth; 2. what increases segregation; 3. what increases the proportion of precarious jobs?
Media Concentration.
What is a situation where a few large companies control the majority of commercial culture?
This type of mediated relationship was developed in 1956.
What is a parasocial relationship?
"What happens when Google Moves" into town was the story used to describe these paired concepts.
What are Equality and Privilege?
A book published in 1964 on the paradox of convenience.
What is One-Dimensional Man?
The founder of SpaceX
Who is Elon Musk?
Filter bubble.
What is a phenomenon in which people are only exposed to topics that interest them and opinions they already agree with, already hold?
In 2020, the research of these three social scientists found that parasocial relationships extend and complement existing social relationships, rather than replacing them.
Who are Tukachinsky, Walter, and Saucier.
The Battle over Privacy is about these paired concepts.
What is Power and Resistance?
We are bombarded with endless social comparisons in a way that has negative consequences for our mental health.
What is: how do social media technologies challenge our ability to concentrate?
Jeff Bezos.
Who is the founder of Amazon?
Eli Pariser's TED Talk warning about the danger of filter bubbles has been viewed this number of times.
What is more than 1.5 million times?
In 2008, the research of Derrick, Gabriel, and Tippin found this about parasocial relationships.
What is the role of the correlation between parasocial relationships and the boosting of self-esteem?
The power of -pop was used to illustrate these paired concepts.
What is Global and Local?