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= Intro = | = Intro = | ||
== Business == | == Business == | ||
* November 5th meeting will be cancelled | |||
* See Blackboard for the updated syllabus | |||
== Recap == | == Recap == | ||
* Suchman, Forsythe and the critique of information | |||
* Specifically, the epistemology of information scientists as well as managers | |||
* Claims: | |||
** Knowledge as plans | |||
** Knowledge as value-free | |||
** Knowledge as non-social | |||
== Segue == | == Segue == | ||
= | * Today, we expand our context and examine the global, political economic context | ||
== | * We do what anthropologists do best: | ||
== Commodification of Knowledge == | ** Comparing the formal to the informal | ||
== | ** Cultural forms and social institutions | ||
== Discourse == | ** The Three Is: INFRASTRUCTURE, IDEOLOGY, and INSTITUTIONS | ||
= Lyotard = | |||
== Knowledge == | |||
=== Connection to Representation === | |||
* Materiality | |||
* Ritual -> Orality -> Literacy ... | |||
=== Reconstitution of Knowledge === | |||
=== Exteriorization of Knowledge === | |||
=== Commodification of Knowledge === | |||
=== Communicational Transparency === | |||
* See Shannon's model | |||
* "Information wants to be free" | |||
* Social problems reducible to "noise" | |||
* Missing context --> See Bateson's misreading of Shannon | |||
* Government gets in the way | |||
== Political Economy == | |||
=== Globalization === | |||
=== Investment === | |||
=== Piracy === | |||
=== Legitimacy === | |||
== Resistance == | |||
=== Language Games and an Agonistics of Language === | |||
* Compare to Suchman; rules : plans :: games : situated action | |||
=== Discourse and Narrative === | |||
= Manovich = | |||
== Database as Symbolic Form == | == Database as Symbolic Form == | ||
* Examples: | * Examples: | ||
** [http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html 10x10 News] | ** [http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html 10x10 News] | ||
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs Women in Art] | ** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs Women in Art] | ||
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz1J5A4N-eE Welcome to the Database] | |||
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us] | |||
** [http://www.youtube.com/video_response_view_all?v=vMwWWdB3BvI YouTube Capitalism Thread] | |||
== Narrative == | |||
== Algorithm == | |||
== Film == | |||
= | = Google = | ||
Latest revision as of 15:26, 8 October 2007
Intro
Business
- November 5th meeting will be cancelled
- See Blackboard for the updated syllabus
Recap
- Suchman, Forsythe and the critique of information
- Specifically, the epistemology of information scientists as well as managers
- Claims:
- Knowledge as plans
- Knowledge as value-free
- Knowledge as non-social
Segue
- Today, we expand our context and examine the global, political economic context
- We do what anthropologists do best:
- Comparing the formal to the informal
- Cultural forms and social institutions
- The Three Is: INFRASTRUCTURE, IDEOLOGY, and INSTITUTIONS
Lyotard
Knowledge
Connection to Representation
- Materiality
- Ritual -> Orality -> Literacy ...
Reconstitution of Knowledge
Exteriorization of Knowledge
Commodification of Knowledge
Communicational Transparency
- See Shannon's model
- "Information wants to be free"
- Social problems reducible to "noise"
- Missing context --> See Bateson's misreading of Shannon
- Government gets in the way
Political Economy
Globalization
Investment
Piracy
Legitimacy
Resistance
Language Games and an Agonistics of Language
- Compare to Suchman; rules : plans :: games : situated action
Discourse and Narrative
Manovich
Database as Symbolic Form
- Examples:
