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Information/Technology/SocietyOct. 05, 2010 Lecture
+Agenda
Lecture
Housekeeping Tutorial update Recalibration of assignment load Check in on readings Exam dates Calendar for Field-note Assignment
+Lecture:
Potent objects:information-technology-society “goldmines”
+Cultural transmissions
+Using a form to engage i/t/sUsing a technology to engage i/t/sDoll
A form in our midst that we are often under-aware of as information resource
Anthropologist Michael Tausig: Perhaps it is the oldest interactive technology
Technologies involved ? Play + Body + Learning
What is learned What is addressed
+Body + form
+Body + form
+Body + form
+Body + form
+Body + form
+hand + form
+hand + form
+Weapon
Another old “interactive technology
Technologies involved?
+Weapon
Another old “interactive technology
Technologies involved?
+Weapon
Another old “interactive technology
Technologies of distance
Technologies of detachment
+Weapon/Doll
+Weapon/Doll
School
+Weapon/Doll
School=
Information
+Weapon/Doll/School
School=
Information
TV?Video Games
Home?TV?Store?
+Weapon/Doll/School
School=
Information
TV?Video Games
Home?TV?Store?
Unofficial information/Official “information”
+Initial Field-Note Assignment, Part 1: Informal Notes/Gathering Data For Week of Oct 19 Find a technology that is also a potent object (make sure
you like it – you are going to spend the month with it.
Pick something other than doll/gun/screen
Use it to informally observe and research the world around you (go to mall, stand in York Lanes and observe, go online) Find out about its history (production , marketing and…) Observe and analyze its relationship to body and the senses Observe and gather juicy observations regards its place in our
world present/past/future Observe and analyze its relationship to market, media,
learning, politics, culture and communication See if you can use binaries to analyze it. (try official/unofficial if
you can’t think of any)
+Field-note Assignment
Part 1: Informal data gathering: Today due Oct 19
Part 2: Formal data gathering, organization: Introduced on Oct 19 due Nov 2
Part 3: Data Analysis: Introduced on Oct 19 due Nov 2
+Assignment Load
9 credit Attendance and participation: 16% (8 % per term) Major Assignments: 60% (4- Each worth 15%)
Field note assignment Exam + two papers Paper + two exams
Precis 12 % (3 - each worth 4%) Question Sets 12% (3 - each worth 4)
Attendance will be taken in tutorials. In tutorials you will be held accountable for readings, for participating and asked to give evidence of attending the lectures.
An extra credit offered (there will be two offerings per term. Will count towards Attendance and participation)
+Assignment Load: Recalibrated 6 credit: Attendance and participation: 10% (5% per term)
Major Assignments: 60% (3- Each worth 20%) Field-note assignment 1 exam 1 paper
Precis 15% (3 - each worth 5%)
Question sets 15% (2- each worth 7.5%)
Attendance will be taken in tutorials. In tutorials you will be held accountable for readings, for participating and asked to give evidence of attending the lectures.
An extra credit offered (there will be two offerings per term. Will count towards Attendance and participation)
+EXAMs
Dates Proposed Dec 7 Mar 29
Questions will come from your question sets, readings, lectures.
Spring exam will not cumulative.