Baym
Agger
Gershon
Turkle
Theories of Social Media
100
These are used to provide further information regarding context, the meaning of messages, and the emotional awareness of the people interacting in a face to face situation.
What are "social cues"?
100
According to Agger this term for telling too much about oneself, often online and through texting and blogging.
What is "oversharing"?
100
These are a set of beliefs about communicative technologies with which users and designers explain perceived media structure and meaning.
What are "media ideologies"?
100
This is a mythic understanding of when a machine crosses over into human consciousness.
What is "singularity"?
100
This idea believes people can achieve a higher state of consciousness or existence by transcending human nature through better way ways of thinking about what it means to be human or with aid from technology.
What is "posthumanism"?
200
The ability of a medium to enable social interaction between groups of people.
What is "social interactivity"?
200
This is a serious emotional disorder involving the belief that the person knows best for everyone else and has no flaws.
What is narcissistic personality disorder (NDP)?
200
These are are all the elements that form the medium along with the social consequences.
What is the "structure of a medium"?
200
Turkle uses this term to explain how computers and robots have a way of changing us and our ways of thinking about ourselves, our relationships, and our sense of being human.
What is "the robotic moment"?
200
Many in society view new media as an active force of change and humans have little or no power of resistance. Any negative effects of technology, if there are any, will be corrected with modified and adapted technology.
What is "technological determinism"
300
Face to face, phone calls, and instant messaging is an example of this kind of communication?
What is "synchronous communication"?
300
This emotional disturbance is characterized by impulsive behavior and love-hate relationships, possibly stemming from earlier abuse.
What is "borderline personality disorder"?
300
These are ways of using technology. These uses of technology are culturally developed.
What are "idioms of practice"
300
Turkle uses this term that reduces all human and computer action down to behavior.
What is "behaviorism"
300
This position argues that people are the primary sources of change in both technology and society. This perspective focuses on how technologies arise from social processes. This view focuses on the people, because it is people who make the devices.
What is "the social construction of technology"?
400
email, voice mail, and D2L is this kind of communication.
What is "Asynchronous communication"?
400
This term reflects those who are easily influenced by other people.
What is "thin boundaries"?
400
This is is not what is actually said but rather the background knowledge of a situation and expectations of communication that allows one to interpret those words.
What is "second order information"?
400
Turkle (and others) are afraid that an over use or too much involvement with technology will tend to cause people to treat each other as _____ .
What are "spare parts"?
400
Technology and humans effect each other in both directions. Technology does push us to behave and communicate in certain ways which effects how humans design technology.
What is "social shaping of technology"
500
This term is used to describe the extent to which a device is portable.
What is "mobility"?
500
These are personal limits that place parameters around our dignity.
What are "boundaries"?
500
The formality or informality of a medium depends on people's ____ .
What is "media ideology"?
500
Turkle is afraid that social robots who become companions that are always interested in us will lead to a kind of ____ .
What is "narcissism"?
500
This view holds that through every day processes, technology becomes taken for granted and no longer seen as an agent of change in society.
What is "domestication of technology"?
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