By Devon Hiphner
Various technologies in contemporary society are expanding and developing everyday, recently the most notable of these technologies is the wireless phenomenon. Going through any given day you may see hundreds of people everywhere on their cell phones texting, accessing the internet, emailing via their smart phones or computers through a wireless internet [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘cell phones’
28 November 2008
Wireless Technologies
12 March 2008
Cell Phones and Instant Messaging – The Destruction or The Extension of Community Life?
Jennifer Daryl Slack, and J. Macgregor Wise, the authors of our course reader Culture + Technology A Primer, describes a scenario in a post secondary school of a busy courtyard. This courtyard was a “cultural space” where students gathered in groups to talk about their lives and classes, and to grab a bite to [...]
28 February 2008
Position Paper I – Control
In 1949 George Orwell portrays a chilling world where large bureaucracies use computers to monitor and enslave the population in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four…
As a first term student starting CultureNet in Spring 08, one of our main resources is a book called Culture + Technology: A Primer by Jennifer Daryl Slack and J. Macgregor [...]
