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i203 – Social and Organizational Issues of Information
THE WISDOM OF LONG TAILS
04/23/2008
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What Makes All This ‘Anthropological’?
Anthropologists have studied (are studying) it.
The topic areas center around discourse and cultural (re)production.
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The Internet ‘Revolution’ Manuel Castells
The Rise of the Network Society (1996)
The Information Age Trilogy
Fundamental Question: How has the rise of the
networked age changed the nature of our economy, of organizations, of culture?
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Haraway – The Cyborg Manifesto What is the ‘cyborg’?
Human / machine hybrid
Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181.4
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Internet Terminology
What is media?
Focus on practices, not technologies.
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Cultural (Re)Production
Focus on offline spaces, how online space, communities, information technologies are integrated, appropriated.
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The Internet in Trinidad Miller and Slater – The Internet: An
Ethnographic Approch Case study: the internet in Trinidad
The internet provides another way of ‘being Trini’
Diaspora connections The internet only exists, has meaning, in
practice
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Space at BAYCAT:The ‘Creation’ Room
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Space at BAYCAT:The ‘Creation’ Room
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Space at BAYCAT:Private and Public
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Space at BAYCAT:Spaces for Collaboration
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Where’s Community? Focusing on a community, its
boundaries, blurs the diversity of the community and its internal and external interactions.
Communities of Practice – ‘Ecology of Media’
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Communication and Practice Discourse and Communicative Practice “Speech Communities”
On Facebook, e.g.! Harrison White on ‘Switching Talk’
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Distributed Cognition Synergy of individual and artifacts in the
environment Distributed in at least 3 ways:
Across members of a social group Between individual and environment
(coordination) Over time
See: Hutchins, E. (1995) "How a cockpit remembers its speeds". Cognitive Science, 19, 265-288.
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Next Week
‘Crowdsourcing’, Collaboration, and User-Generated Content – Oh my!