This week's blog will be focusing on a TEDx Talk video titled "Why we need to understand the politics inherent in technology" by Evan Barba. This video shows a different perspective on the use of technology and how politics are always going to be involved. Technology and mass media shape and guide our society even when we don't realize it.
Link to the video: https://youtu.be/QhOGWy9kvj8
A quote that stuck out to me in this video was "People are often very willing to endure a lot of inconveniences for technological progress, but they're in fact much less willing to make any kind of accommodation for social progress." Technology is meant to make things easier and to help with the development of progress in our society. Although technology can disrupt the balance of politics, working with the internet and and media will restore that balance.
"If we all decide to make some very small changes then maybe we can start to try to restore the human connections that technology seems to have broken." -Evan Barba
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