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This week, my first year BA (Hons) Interactive Media Production students and I have been exploring the extent to which our technologies determine our cultural perceptions.
View my initial lecture on 'Technologies and Cultural Perceptions', part of the Interactive Media strand of our first year course Critical Media Concepts and Contexts at the Media School, Bournemouth University, UK.
Today, my first year students organised and led the following debate in their seminars 'Society determines Technology/Technology determines Society'. Their ideas were fascinating. Read how the debate developed in each of the three seminars they run today by viewing the following pdf of the main points in each debate:
STUDENT DEBATE: TECHNOLOGY DETERMINES CULTURE/SOCIETY versus CULTURE/SOCIETY DETERMINES TECHNOLOGY
Each group came to similar conclusions: that technology and culture/society co-exist and influence each other fundamentally.
