ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Human Events, Cloud Computing, Crowdsourcing
3 Oct 2012
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Is a framework for understanding the effects of objects and technology on humans and culture. Takes the view that most of modern human life is a product of both human and non-human object. The mental cyborg: digital memory & digital identity. Action does not represent an identity; instead; it created it. Intellectual technologies the tools that extend our mental rather than our physical capacities we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies. Mechanical clock: disassociated time from human events. Ambient awareness it is very much like being physically near someone and picking up on their mood through the little things they do body language, sighs, stray comments out of the corner of your eye. Co-presence being apart, but connected through digital media by repeated texts, messages, etc. Technosocial: the concept that all technology is social in its manifestation. State-phoning: the caller is effectively performing for innocent bystanders.
