PAPER 1

Choose one of the following topics to develop a paper of 1500 words. Your paper should build an argument using direct quotations from the texts and your explanations of them. Other references than those covered in class will be required. All of these should be properly noted through endnotes titled “References”.

1) Explain Heidegger’s concept of “enframing” and “standing reserve” as a means of understanding modern technology. Do these concepts apply in the same way to information technologies? Elaborate using two different information technologies.

2) Explain Benjamin’s concept of the loss of “aura” of the artistic object through mechanical reproduction. Use his formulation to explore the potential of such media as television and the internet for communication.

3) Analyze the Eames’s film A Communication Primer for the different ways in which it explains Shannon’s mathematical model of communication. Choose two examples and explain them instead using cybernetic’s concept of feedback. Describe how the two models differ on their explanation of information and communication.

DUE: Thursday, October 13th by 5pm. Word document emailed to me(omarkhan@buffalo.edu).

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