A higher quality version of the 3rd reading for Tuesday (Jonathan Grudin, “Groupware and Social Dynamics: Eight Challenges for Developers”) is available here (use VPN or access from on campus).
The latest on OLPC
Finished up your assignment 1 early? Have a little extra time on your hands? Here, read this: “Step 1: give every kid a laptop. Step 2: learning begins?” today in Ars Technica.
New York Times articles for assignment 1
The links on the PdF might not work, because they seem to skip a dash in the url. Here they are again:
“The Facebook Resisters” (Dec 13, 2011)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/technology/shunning-facebook-and-living-to-tell-about-it.html
Letters to the Editor
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/opinion/like-facebook-count-them-out.html?scp=1&sq=like%20facebook
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/opinion/truth-and-facebook.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=facebook&st=Search
Reminder about Syllabus Change for tomorrow (2/7)
I mentioned this in class last week and sent an e-mail around, but one more reminder that tomorrow we will be discussing the readings from Everett Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations (introduction) and Ron Eglash Appropriating Technology (introduction) both in the course reader.
Flickr Photo Pool
Flickr Mini-Assignment #1: Thinking about Actor-Network Theory
Photograph an artifact/entity (human or non-human) that is not in use in the way we typically expect (either broken or enrolled in an uncommon or counter-intuitive way).
Post directly to our Flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/info203fall2012/ or (for those of you who don’t wish to create or use your Yahoo, Facebook or Google account to login – e-mail to Elisa: elisa @ ischool)
In the caption section answer one of these questions:
- What (missing) entities must it be enrolled with to make it what it more typically is?
- How is it enrolled in this particular case to make it what it isn’t?
Completing this mini-assignment contributes to your class participation grade. Due on Tuesday February 7.
Video from Class – 1/31
Pennyfarthing racers (the Ordinary bicycle) 2010
Notes from Today’s Lecture – 1/26
Powerpoint slides for today’s lecture are available here. Please take a look at the “notes” section where I have added further explanation including some notes on how to distinguish between “empirical work” and “argumentative essays.”
Assignment 1
Assignment 1 has just been posted on the assignments page. A paper copy will be handed out in class on Thursday. The assignment is due February 9th.
Links from Today’s Class
For those who are interested:
- “Young, In Love, and Sharing Everything, Including a Password” (Jan 17, 2012, NY Times)
- “The Phone that Interrupted the Philharmonic” (Jan 18, 2012, NY Times)
- “Cell Phone Offender at NY Philharmonic Gives His Side of the Story” (Jan 13, 2012, NY Times)
Sign up to be “on call”
Take a look at the syllabus and see what kinds of topics and readings are covered in each section. Then go to the Google doc to sign up for a section to be “on call” here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Akeq1wHDHTE5dHE2SFZxNWxIRzZIaTFXMGIxZ2dzV0E&hl=en_US#gid=0