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Technology Physical objects and social practices that are constructed by people in order to augment physical capabilities or to order social interaction. Technological Determinism The idea that technological development determines social change o Certain technologies cause us to react/interact Autonomous Technology • Extreme version of technological determinism • Technology has an independent momentum or trajectory • Technology's trajectory is seen as beyond human control o W...

What is technology?Physical objects and social practices that are constructed by people in order to augment physical capabilities or to order social interaction What is technological determinism?Technology determines certain outcomes and technological change causes social change. Technologies evolve largely independently of society. What is Autonomous Technology?An extreme version of technological determinism. Technology has an independent momentum or trajectory. · Technology's traje...

discretionary databasesa shared pool of data to which several participants may, if they choose, separately contribute information Ex: Wikipedia, Gauchospace forums, company intranet, census records, personnel files issues with discretionary databaseswithholding information, free-riding, poor information quality, getting them started reasons for contribution to discretionary databasessystem-wide subsidies, high contribution quality, large group size, central coordination, reciprocity, co...

Technology (Langdon Winner)All of modern practical artifice Technology (James R. Beniger)That which can be done, excluding only those capabilities that occur naturally in living systems Technology (Emmanuel Mesthene)The organization of knowledge for practical purposes Technology (Don MacKenzie/Judy Wajcman)Physical objects... human activities... what people know as well as what they do Technology (Neil Postman)A set of assumptions of which we are barely conscious but which nonetheles...

Technology Physical objects and social practices that are constructed by people in order to augment physical capabilities or to order social interaction. Technological Determinism The idea that technological development determines social change o Certain technologies cause us to react/interact Autonomous Technology • Extreme version of technological determinism • Technology has an independent momentum or trajectory • Technology's trajectory is seen as beyond human control o W...

What is technology?Physical objects and social practices that are constructed by people in order to augment physical capabilities or to order social interaction What is technological determinism?Technology determines certain outcomes and technological change causes social change. Technologies evolve largely independently of society. What is Autonomous Technology?An extreme version of technological determinism. Technology has an independent momentum or trajectory. · Technology's traje...

discretionary databasesa shared pool of data to which several participants may, if they choose, separately contribute information Ex: Wikipedia, Gauchospace forums, company intranet, census records, personnel files issues with discretionary databaseswithholding information, free-riding, poor information quality, getting them started reasons for contribution to discretionary databasessystem-wide subsidies, high contribution quality, large group size, central coordination, reciprocity, co...

Technology (Langdon Winner)All of modern practical artifice Technology (James R. Beniger)That which can be done, excluding only those capabilities that occur naturally in living systems Technology (Emmanuel Mesthene)The organization of knowledge for practical purposes Technology (Don MacKenzie/Judy Wajcman)Physical objects... human activities... what people know as well as what they do Technology (Neil Postman)A set of assumptions of which we are barely conscious but which nonetheles...

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What does an initial radio report provide? (116-117) A. Transfer of command B. Description of conditions as they appear C. Procedure for requesting a special alarm D. Operations from a legal and statistical standpoint Correct Answer-b Which of the following should be in an arrival report? (117) A. Number of victims B. Discussion of command C. Correct address of the incident D. Emergency medical services on scene Correct Answer-c Which of the following provides the telecommunications ce...