5/21&5/23 Public&Privacy

　

　

　

"Keeping your privacy

By the way what is your think about your publical foam?"

Human-life is aways scared to privacy.

then, people has been invented to protecting our life

surveillance

close watch kept over someone or something
Etymology: French, from surveiller to watch over, from sur- + veiller to watch, from Latin vigilare, from vigil watchful

from surveillance to dataveillance

total information awareness agency
now the “terrorism information awareness” project
name change as of may 21, 2003 to mollify congress’ worries about intrusion of the privacy of u.s. citizens
headed by convicted felon (former admiral) john poindexter

surveillance model versus capture model

surveillance model: is built upon visual metaphors and derives from historical experiences of secret police surveillance
capture model: is built upon linguistic metaphors and takes as its prototype the deliberate reorganization of industrial work activities to allow computers to track them [the work activities] in real time

digital media versus computer science

digital media studies: some architectures (e.g., democratic ones) are best designed to be inefficient
computer science: efficiency is almost always considered to be a virtue: efficient architectures are usually good architectures

cookies

cookies are information that a web server stores on the machine running a web browser
–try clearing all of the cookies in your web browser and the visit web sites that you have been.

Agre on “elaboration”

“The captured activity records, which are in economic terms among the products of the reorganized activity, can now be stored, inspected, audited, merged with other records, subjected to statistical analysis, ... and so forth.”

5/14&5/16 "Human"

"All about things to technology is existenced for human."

dr.yoon was introducing about these on this week.

1.Prosthesis

For other uses, see Prosthesis (disambiguation).
In medicine, a prosthesis is an artificial extension that replaces a missing body part. It is part of the field of biomechatronics, the science of fusing mechanical devices with human muscle, skeleton, and nervous systems to assist or enhance motor control lost by trauma, disease, or defect. Prostheses are typically used to replace parts lost by injury (traumatic) or missing from birth (congenital) or to supplement defective body parts. In addition to the standard artificial limb for every-day use, many amputees have special limbs and devices to aid in the participation of sports and recreational activities.

2.Donna Haraway

Donna Haraway (born September 6, 1944 in Denver, Colorado) is currently a professor and chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. She is the author of Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology (1976), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989), Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991), and Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse (1997).
Haraway earned a degree in Zoology and Philosophy at the Colorado College and received the Boettcher Foundation scholarship. She lived in Paris for a year, studying philosophies of evolution on a Fulbright scholarship before completing her Ph. D. from the Biology Department of Yale in 1972. She wrote her dissertation on the functions of metaphor in shaping research in developmentalbiology in the twentieth century.
Haraway has taught Women's Studies and General Science at the University of Hawaii and Johns Hopkins University. In September, 2000, Haraway was awarded the highest honor given by the Society for Social Studies of Science, the J. D. Bernal Award, for lifetime contributions to the field. Haraway has also lectured in feminist theory and techno-science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Haraway is a leading thinker about people's love and hate relationship with machines. Her ideas have sparked an explosion of debate in areas as diverse as primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology

3.Lisa Nakamura

The Internet presents a real dilemma to postcolonial theorists, writers, and intellectuals; indeed, perhaps to postcolonial theory itself. The range and tone of responses to cyberspace reflect a deep split in the ways that this new communication technology is viewed by non-Western cultures and races. Ziauddin Sardar sees the Internet as a tool of imperialism, and he asserts that it is simply the newest example on a continuum of imperializing practices perpetrated by the West in its ongoing domination of other cultures. He regards cyberspace as a medium that can only transmit imperialistic ideologies; its background in military research and high cost of access makes it intrinsically a Western technology with no potential for resistance by people of color. In short, he sees it as a medium that’s inherently flawed by its association with modernity, tropes of colonialism, and hypercapitalism. His critique is extremely similar in many ways to Chinua Achebe’s famous response to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. There’s no turning back from the way that Achebe singlehandedly politicized that text; the Norton Critical Edition of the novel includes it because it’s now become part of the discursive field of postcolonial criticism as well as a virtuoso reading of the text. Achebe demonstrates that Conrad’s novel depicts natives as irredeemably Other, as the West’s dark side. Sardar says that cyberspace accomplishes the same thing.On the other hand, many new media collectives in traditionally “media poor” countries who lack widespread access to the Internet strongly assert the usefulness of Internet and computer use in the context of non-Western culture. The Sarai New Media Centre in Delhi is trying to make software for people who are non-literate as a means to wrest the medium away from cultural elites. Even more importantly, this move away from textual literacy produces expressive forms which are more in line with the culture’s distinctive media landscape, thus reducing the dangers of imperializing incursions from the West. Jeebesh Bagchi, Sarai member and a Raqs media collective artist, claims that “India is a song and visual sign board culture” and asks, “What kind of dialogue with this strange and eclectic world do we want to create, not based on domination or populism?” (qtd. in Lovink 212). Envisioning and using the Internet in visual rather than primarily textual ways can be a radically empowering move for non-literate groups.

5/7&5/9 "Computer games"

what’s in a game engine?

graphics
physics
ai
...and a lot more

game “mods”

Mod (modification: fps, rpgs, real-time strategy games)
by general public or developer
can be entirely new games in themselves
partial conversions (total conversions)example development environment

games research and development

example groups and events:
the game developers’ conference: http://www.gdconf.com/
game studies: academic journal: http://gamestudies.org/
research groups:
academic: e.g., Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen
industry: and, of course, the folks at Microsoft, Electronic Arts, etc.
art:
e.g., the show Bang the Machine: Computer Gaming Art and Artifacts
e.g., alternative games competition, Rhizome.org at the New Museum, New York City, March 2004

what makes a good game?

play? or,
story? or,

realism? or, is it
something else?

more than identification

“When you play a video game you enter into the world of the programmers who made it. You have to do more than identify with a character on the screen. You must act for it. Identification through action has a special kind of hold. Like playing a sport, it puts people into a highly focused, and highly charged state of mind. For many people, what is being pursued in the video game is not just a score, but an altered state.
from Sherry Turkle, “Video Games and Computer Holding Power”

identification

Identification is known to psycho-analysis as the earliest expression of an emotional tie with another person. It plays a part in the early history of the Oedipus complex. A little boy will exhibit a special interest in his father; he would like to grow like him and be like him, and take his place everywhere. We may say simply that he takes his father as his ideal.
from Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
Cf., Jacques Lacan on “The Mirror Stage,” and writings about identification in film theory by Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Christian Metz, Stephen Heath, and others

space: what’s a boy’s space?

is it a place where boys can...
enjoy lurid images?
prove themselves with stunts?
gain mastery?
(re)produce hierarchies?
vent aggressive feelings?
engage in scatological humor?
competitively role-play?
and bond together
these criteria are from Henry Jenkins’ article

4/30&5/2 "computer-aid"

key-point
every digital media technology has an architecture using diagrams to compare physical architectures with digital architectures

CSCW

computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is a field of research and design. (ex: CAD/CAM, ABB Powerwall, Drug Design)

Winograd and Flores

Winograd and Flores present a methodology for CSCW analysis and design. This methodology is commonly known as the “language/action” perspective.

design as conversation construction

any organization is constituted as a network of recurrent conversations (ex: issue, topic, theme…)
conversations are linked in regular patterns of triggering and breakdown (ex: next issues…)
in creating tools we are designing new conversations and connections (ex: ways, methods, rules…)
computers are a tool for conducting the network of conversations (ex: how-to, clues ….)

Technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic and philosophical ideas and relationships.

Every digital media technology has an architecture that can be used to transform work, play and governance.

physical architecture and digital architecture

For example, The Social Logic of Space(1990)
by Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson