COURSE: COMS3403 Comm technology and culture Review of technology…

COURSE: COMS3403 Comm technology and culture
Review of technology article.
Select an article to review about any technology from either: WIRED Magazine, The New Scientist, CBC Spark w/ Nora Young, MIT Technology Review, BBC Science Focus Magazine, Tech Briefs, EnviroTech, Tech Journal or Engineering and Technology Magazine. In your review, cite the article or podcast, state mandate of the publication and who owns it, and of course name the technology/ies the article is about. Discuss how the author framed technology in the article, you must refer to class concepts and theories when doing so.
Class Concepts/readings:
Winner, Langdon (1980) Do Artifacts Have Politics? Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity? Winter, 121-136, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652
Quan-Haase, Anabel (2020) Chapter 1 The Technological Society, Technology and Society: Social Networks, Power and Inequality, Oxford University Press. 1-23.
Light, Ben, Burgess, Jean and Duguay (2016) The walkthrough method: An approach to the study of apps, New Media and Society, 20(3): 881-900. https://doi-org.proxy.library.carleton.ca/10.1177/1461444816675438
Quan-Haase, Anabel (2020) Technology and Society: Social Networks, Power and Inequality, Oxford University
Chapter 2 Technology in Society: A Historical Overview, 24-48.
Chapter 3 Theoretical Perspectives on Technology, 49-70.
Quan-Haase, Anabel (2020) Technology and Society: Social Networks, Power and Inequality, Oxford University Press. 71-93.
Chapter 4 Techno-Social Designing, 71-93.
Chapter 8 Genders and Technology, 162-183.
Quan-Haase, Anabel (2020) Chapter 5 Adoption and Diffusion of Technological Innovations, Technology and Society: Social Networks, Power and Inequality, Oxford University Press. 95-117.
“Gartner Hype Cycle Research Methodology.” n.d. Gartner. Accessed December 29, 2022. https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hype-cycle.
You may want to include the following but do not be limited to this: what issues were identified, any ethical considerations, is there a funder or backer, what institutions were mentioned, where was it developed and/or deployed, is there a target market or beneficiary, where was the R & D conducted, etc.