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== 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 == | ||
= Themes = | = Themes = | ||
Revision as of 15:24, 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
Themes
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
Database as Symbolic Form
- Examples:
