Average american watch television in 2009

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1) How many hours a day did the average American watch television in 2009, as a reasonable approximation? With respect to the hours watched per day in 1970 by the average person in the U.S., what percentage increase would this represent, again as a reasonable approximation? [2 points]
On average American watched television 3 hours a day in 2009.

2) How would you understand Steve Woolgar's objection to Winner's story of the Long Island bridges of Robert Moses? Discuss in your own words and cite appropriate evidence. [2 points]

3) According to Winner, why is the atom bomb an inherently political technology? Discuss in your own words and cite appropriate evidence. [2 points]

4) While many domesticated animals from Eurasia were brought over to the Americas, Crosby argues that very few made the trip in the other direction. Name two (2) that did. [1 point]

5) Provide one (1) original example each for two (2) of the properties-enhancement, obsolescence, retrieval, reversal-attributed by Marshall McLuhan to technological media. (Outside sources may be used in this case as long as they are properly cited.) [1 point]

6) What two (2) factors fostered the circulation of many ideas in 18th-century Great Britain at the outset of the Industrial Revolution, more perhaps than elsewhere in Europe? Explain fully. [2 points]

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