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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz1J5A4N-eE Welcome to the Database] | ** [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/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 == | == Narrative == | ||
Revision as of 02:24, 8 October 2007
Intro
Business
Recap
Segue
Themes
Informational 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
Commodification of Knowledge
Reconstitution of Knowledge
Discourse
Database as Symbolic Form
- Examples:
