What are the details of our daily existence? What systems dominate our lives? What meanings can we make of our situation?

This social studies/humanities course will steal from various disciplines - including anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, economics, futurology, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology - to help us make sense of our situation.

A major goal of the course will be to focus your attention on your own life. Together we will investigate major systems that create and rule our lives including capitalism, school, family, popular culture, and the US government. And we will figure out how to interpret our lives, and these systems, and the collision of our lives and these systems.

We will detour into the future and the past but our journey will be primarily contemporary.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

HW 14 - Second Text

For this 14th HW assignment please read either the two short excerpts or the long excerpt (which includes the two short ones plus some more material), depending on your reading skills and college aspirations.



Hopefully you will need a password to download the text(s) - it was provided in class today and is the name of the current unit.

If you open the downloaded files with Acrobat Reader it will automatically rotate them correctly - Preview (on Macs) seems less good at this. If you don't have either of these programs download them or find another way of opening the PDF files.

After reading the material please:
1. Write a single 1-2 paragraph summary of the main argument(s) of the text(s) you've read.
2. Write a paragraph or three about your mix of reactions to the arguments and evidence in the book. What perspectives do you think are useful - what might be faulty?
3. Add a paragraph or two that addresses the ways the argument of this author contradicts Feed. In what ways didn't he? In what ways were the two authors talking about two very different aspects of digitalization?

Please post by Sunday, Oct 25 at 8pm.

Thanks.

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