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Cite all sources Pick one reading from the Week 2 online discussion by Neil Postman, Sherry Turkle, or Mary Eberstadt. Explain how this author is doing two things: (1) using parts of Actor-Network Theory (Slack and Wise’s “articulation and assemblage”) to analyze a technology, as well as (2) using a “corruption” argument in regards to how the use of this technology has affected modern culture. Give examples from the text. (Postman, 12). No secondary sources are necessary. Slack and Wise discuss the “received view of progress” in chapter 2 of Culture and Technology, and argue that this view requires belief in what they call the “technological imperative.” Yuval Levin also discusses technological progress in his essay, “Imagining the Future.” Which of the two views Levin discusses best exemplifies the “received view of progress,” and what are some problems with this view? Pick one reading from the Week 2 online discussion by Neil Postman, Sherry Turkle, or Mary Eberstadt. Explain how this author is doing two things: (1) using parts of Actor-Network Theory (Slack and Wise’s “articulation and assemblage”) to analyze a technology, as well as (2) using a “corruption” argument in regards to how the use of this technology has affected modern culture. Give examples from the text. See Text Listed below Chapter 2 is key Culture and Technology A Primer second edition Jennifer Daryl Slack and J. MacGregor Wise