COMS 3500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Geopolitics, Utopia, Smartphone
22 Oct 2017
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Why? : provisioning: who owns and controls the networks that we need access to? (i. e. bell, With what parts of our bodies? (i. e. fingers, thumbs, ears, etc. : how the smartphone causes a different set of players become involved in our banal day to day tasks. Questions: why ask these questions about the smartphone, the smartphone as decline of western civilization. The artifact: through specific affordance of location, greenfield makes broader claims about social and technical issues, the smartphone is too broad a topic in itself, he focuses on location. Networks and phones are becoming more and more necessary: you can"t use the smartphone without giving it your data, aka we are trading our privacy for convenience (and oftentimes think it"s worth it. Discussion: 5 mins essay, in this statement, greenfield attempts to point out the different components of the smartphone that often go overlooked by the average user.
