CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ned Ludd, Sousveillance

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

What makes a good icon design: simplicity, text icon size, shape, colour, position. Purpose of writing: immortality, predict future, accounting, expression, teaching, ceremonial purposes, self-reflecting. Ned ludd: when technology was developing ned ludd opposed the idea and smashed it. Copyright: you don"t own the actual product but the idea. 3d modeling: there is a difference between visual 3d and 3d printing for example. All the readings after the first test. How do they work and how do they affect media and/or communications: business of ebooks, symbols, pictograms, and icons. 5 principles of a good icon: how has writing developed. Origins of writing: purposes of writing. Societal implications: 3d image and video technology and how we perceive it, copyright issues, surveillance and sousveillance (opposite of surveillance. How it affects behaviour and communication: search engines and how we find information, critical theory of technology.