Group items tagged Systems - Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University

Heidegger 2 Twitter: Technology, Self & Social Networks. - 11 views

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shared by Adam Bohannon on 06 Dec 09 - Cached

Both object and subject are converted to a “standing-reserve”, to be disaggregated, redistributed, recontextualized, and reaggregated.
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And human individuals, who were once reduced to resources (Frederick Taylor, and the authoritarianism of Human Resource departments), or “eyeballs” in the terminology of internet marketing executives; are now the creative engines of growth, innovation, and creativity.
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This becomes even more interesting when we wonder about the context and meaning of start-ups intentionally exposing their office space’s ductwork - as if the open office with exposed pipes re-instantiates a manifestation of the hearth, or at least ‘un-hides’ the circulatory system of commerce.
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Postmodern technology uses the hyper-reality of simulations to get rid of the limitations imposed by reality. The limit of postmodern reality is not the total objectification of nature, but the replacement of reality by virtual reality totally under our control.
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Borgmann’s antidote for losing our personality to the shallowness and superficiality of hyper-reality is to return to focal activities.
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It takes commitment on our part to engage in focal activities, but the effort affords us a chance to maintain some sense of self in the technological world.
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Thus technological rationality can claim that technologies are value neutral, and only uses are good or evil, despite the fact that the uses are shaped by the technologies.
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And technology leads to new forms of domination. For the critical theorists history has always had domination, but in our time domination has changed from master over slave or lord over serf to the domination of humanity by economics and the market. We are given the illusion of liberty, but that is simply the freedom to choose between brands of mass-produced products.
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Computer technology further de-contextualizes human experience by emphasizing information over understanding. And computers further domination by providing new means of tracking the productivity of workers to the corporation and depersonalizing supervision; very much a modern panopticon envisioned by Jeremy Bentham.
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Foucault’s view allows for the possibility that information technology could be used to put people in more direct communication with each other and spread the concentration of power over society.
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MS Word and freely available blogging software encourages us to constantly revise, so a work becomes a series of drafts, none of which is final (just like this post).
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Gould’s attitude towards design finds philosophical support in pragmatism. Pragmatism recognizes that everyone is socially situated. Dewey taught that scientific theories or methods of logic are tools used in a certain social practice. Attention to the practices surrounding an object are important to understanding it. Since he viewed knowledge as participatory he argued that learning must come about by doing.
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Metaphors provide us a way of understanding the world, by associating one thing with another. Powerful metaphors are like magic, and inform how we think of the objects described, revealing hidden aspects of the thing described. New metaphors for the forces in our lives will suggest new ways of living.
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Metaphors interact with technology in several ways: technology serves as a source of metaphors, new technologies are understood metaphorically, and our metaphors in life pose problems to be solved technologically
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By developing new metaphors, interface designers can suggest new ways of working with computers. If these metaphors are carefully chosen then they will provide a natural model which makes operation of the machine easy.
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Just as metaphors can help us understand computers, computers can provide new metaphors for life. Postmodern theories of psychology suggest that there is no single unified “ego”, but that each of us is made up of a multiplicity of parts, while Minsky discusses the “agencies of mind” in his book “The Society of Mind.” Philip Bromberg claims that a healthy personality is one in which different aspects of the self can come to know one another and reflect upon each other.
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This fluid multiplicity of personality is what gives us our flexibility and resilience.
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Social networks allow participants to explore different aspects of their personality, to manufacture and evolve aspects of their personality depending on context and mood.
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While some observers might see this activity as evidence of Heidegger’s disaggregation of the subject by technology, it can also be seen as a model for Bromberg’s self as being one while being many. This is just one way in which computer technology, the internet, and connected social networks can show us a new way of understanding ourselves.
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South American origin of writing - 1 views

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How Twitter engineers outwitted Mubarak in one weekend | Technology | The Observer - 4 views

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A really good example of this kind of technological innovation was provided last week by Google engineers, who in a few days built a system that enabled protesters in Egypt to send tweets even though the internet in their country had been shut down.
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- hazenshort on 06 Feb 11
  
  It's amazing that people can help overthrow repressive governments using a cell phone!
  
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The tweets appear on twitter.com/speak2tweet.
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before the web arrived and big corporations started to get a grip on it.
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Are We Really Educated? - 3 views

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shared by Nate Bozarth on 01 Feb 11 - No Cached

Nate Bozarth on 01 Feb 11

My friend Tyler makes the observation that we think of the U.S. as a more developed country because of our standardized education system. He affirms that the ability and desire to ask questions is a mark of true learning. "Answering multiple choice questions does not show how much one has been learning; learning to ask multiple questions does!" Then he suggests a correlation between being passionate about a subject and the occurrence of true learning.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">My friend Tyler makes the observation that we think of the U.S. as a more developed country because of our standardized education system. He affirms that the ability and desire to ask questions is a mark of true learning. "Answering multiple choice questions does not show how much one has been learning; learning to ask multiple questions does!" Then he suggests a correlation between being passionate about a subject and the occurrence of true learning.</div>

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Are we killing our students? | Savage Minds - 0 views

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Hilary Dees on 31 Jan 11

Interesting article about the infrastructure of our classrooms. How does technology (generally of course) perpetuate the cycle of only sitting-sedentary students which often leads to sedentary adults? How is this going to change the health landscape? And then the insurance landscape? And then the MediCare landscape? And then taxes? and then? and then? At which point does this become an integrated part of our culture, not just our education system (I think its already started). Where does the continued use of media fit into this landscape?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Interesting article about the infrastructure of our classrooms. How does technology (generally of course) perpetuate the cycle of only sitting-sedentary students which often leads to sedentary adults? How is this going to change the health landscape? And then the insurance landscape? And then the MediCare landscape? And then taxes? and then? and then? At which point does this become an integrated part of our culture, not just our education system (I think its already started). Where does the continued use of media fit into this landscape?</div>

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Egyptian Writing Tech. - 1 views

www.google.com/#q=egypt+writing+system&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=ivns&tbs=tl:1&tbo=u&ei=PXNZTeLVNoaglAeZr7iQBw&sa=X&oi=timeline_result&ct=title&resnum=11&sqi=2&ved=0CHQQ5wIwCg&fp=6a201ef3e6c2284

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shared by Chelsy Lueth on 14 Feb 11 - No Cached

Chelsy Lueth on 14 Feb 11

I thought that this Google search showed a bunch of articles/ websites relating to Egyptian writing and technology and that the time line that Google provides was pretty neat.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I thought that this Google search showed a bunch of articles/ websites relating to Egyptian writing and technology and that the time line that Google provides was pretty neat. </div>

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Sac à main longchamp Le Pliage À - 0 views

« Tous nos collaborateurs en agence sont en contact avec la clientèle et nos métiers évoluent constamment, souligne Christophe Esterle, responsable du recrutement groupe. Nous recherchons donc des ...

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Oxford University Press: Supersizing the Mind: Andy Clark - 1 views

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shared by Mike Wesch on 08 Jan 09 - Cached

The pen and paper of Feynman's thought are just such feedback loops, physical machinery that shape the flow of thought and enlarge the boundaries of mind. Drawing upon recent work in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, human-computer systems, and beyond, Supersizing the Mind offers both a tour of the emerging cognitive landscape and a sustained argument in favor of a conception of mind that is extended rather than "brain-bound." The importance of this new perspective is profound. If our minds themselves can include aspects of our social and physical environments, then the kinds of social and physical environments we create can reconfigure our minds and our capacity for thought and reason.
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Sac Vanessa Bruno pas cher Depuis - 0 views

080 seraient dans les normes pour appliquer cette mesure de cellule individuelle. Conscient que "l'encellulement individuel pour tous" mettra "une décennie pour être mis en place", Dominique Raimbo...

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Rosetta : découvrez la première image en couleur de la comète Tchouri Une nouvelle image réalisée par la sonde Rosetta présente pour la première fois la comète Tchouri en couleur, telle qu'on pourr...

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