There are several articles for this week as reading, of course, these all about the medium and technologies. After reading these articles, there is an article named Introduction: ‘Culture’ and ‘Technology’ that leaves me a deep impression.
This article, Introduction: ‘Culture’ and ‘Technology’, does not have a dominantly main idea to explain the cultural impact of technology, the appropriate goal is to understand and elaborate some questions, discussing a wide range of theoretical perspectives.
- How things work technologically, as how they work culturally?
- How do technologies from the printing press to the Internet function culturally?
- How do they affect the manner in which we think about ourselves and the world?
- From which cultural shifts do such new technological forms arise?
- Do they bring new cultural possibilities into being?
(these questions have been mentioned in the lecture on Monday)
Anyway, this article does help me to understand the relations between culture and technology, extending to the relations between medium and technology. As the author of this article says that, ‘technology plays a crucial role as well in the large-scale and popular forms of culture’, technology also plays a significant role in medium that belongs to culture. Technology, as a form of productivity, is one of the basis of this modern society, sustain the working of the human society. People improve the productivity, in the contrast, the productivity also affect human life that we called culture broadly. This is bidirectional relation in this world.
To identify technology is positive or negative, this depends on everyone who live in contemporary world and times.