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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.