Class for 08.04.30~05.02

Class for 08.04.30~05.02





This class' key points is that every digital media technology has an architecture using diagrams to compare physical architectures with digital architectures.
We talked about ethnomethodology. Ethnomethodology means I know you for long time, in fact, I do'nt know you.
Ethnomethodologists assume that social order is illusory. They believe that social life merely appears to be orderly; in reality it is potentially chaotic. For them social order is constructed in the minds of social actors as society confronts the individual as a series of sense impressions and experiences which she or he must somehow organize into a coherent pattern.


•CSCW: computer-supported cooperative work.
CSCW is a field of research and design. (ex: CAD/CAM, ABB Powerwall, Drug Design)
CAD is computer Aided Design.
Researchers in this field investigate how people work together in groups, and design computer-systems and networks to enable or facilitate group work.
CSCW is considered to a part of a larger field known as CHI or HCI: human-computer interaction (HCI) design, evaluation, implementation, and study of interactive computing systems for human use.
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 ….)
Winograd and Flores: model of conversation
conversations are sequences of actions because by saying things people are understood to be doing things;

i.e., saying = doing;
–e.g., taking an oath in court, saying “I do” in a wedding, etc. are not just words, but words that perform actions.
this classroom: a language/action perspective
what is our network of recurrent (repeating) conversations? --->organization
what are our patterns of triggering and breakdown? --> linking t to t
how do we use computers and networks to conduct this network of conversations? --> creating tools
what new media technologies might be designed to create new conversations and connections? --> blogs …
Every digital media technology has an architecture that can be used to transform work, play and governance.
For example, a city plan from Hillier and Hanson

And then we talked what is the architecture of cyberspace?
•consider the hardware and software that links together (or separates) groups of people
e.g the bandwidth of a network and network protocols (like HTTP or FTP or SMTP or NNTP, etc.) “threads”; i.e., links between email messages.
We talked Agre’s “surveillance model” surveillance model is visual metaphors.
And assumption that watching is non-disruptive. Also territorial metaphors as in the “invasion of private space” Next, centralized orchestration by means of a bureaucracy with a unified set of files. Finally identification with the state and malevolent aims of a specifically political nature.
surveillance is 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


history of surveillance: the panopticon
Panopticon developed by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century for prison
Similar designs adapted for hospitals and factories
In the 18th century prisons and hospitals known, in France, collectively as “environments of humanity”

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux’s salt plant at arc-et-senans (1779)-a hierarchical organization of work

•Michel Foucault: “I would say that Bentham was the complement Rousseau. What in fact was the Rousseauist dream that motivated many of the revolutionaries? It was the dream of a transparent society, visible and legible in each of its parts, the dream of there no longer existing any zones of darkness, zones established by the privileges of royal power or the prerogatives of some corporation.” But They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.



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This class is so interesting.
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux’s and HCI and surveillance and Ethnomethodology is cool.






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