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  • Main Page
    ==[[Critical Theory]]== *[[MIT’s Futures of Entertainment 3 - Session 3: Social Media]]
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  • About
    ...ople to those thought. For instance, if I get an E-mail about a particular theory or idea, and I have a page written about it in the wiki, I can link the pag ...ther things. I’ve found that simply replacing “virtual reality” with social networks lends very well to those papers. In addition, I’ve been collecti
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  • What is Cyborg Anthropology?
    ...(STS), attending with frequency the annual meetings of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (SSSS) and applying cyborgian perspectives to a wide res ...d why rituals occur, ones examines pastimes and hobbies, eating habits and social structure.
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  • What is a Cyborg?
    ...f social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fict *Diane Greco, Program in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  • Conferences
    ...ns and slides may be recorded for future use of the conference, and that a social media savvy audience may be recording presentations for their personal note From this general starting point, we aim at exploring the social dimension of Web applications as well as the interaction and co-existence o
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  • Information
    ...munication.<ref>Hayles gives a good example of how Shannon’s information theory works: Imagine a paranoid bookie who has a code for callers who are placing ...Thursdays this particular week, causing general confusion.</ref> It was a theory designed to maximize efficiency in communication channels, allowing for the
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  • Technosocial Womb
    ...l with a womb through which social sustenance may be delivered, because no social sustenance can be delivered by individuals in the modern public sphere.
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  • Journals
    Internet theory + criticism + research (I like this one a lot).  ...d ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture network and wider social formations. The journal encourages critical and speculative interventions i
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  • Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
    ...its citizenship fall to individual concerns is open to reconnection of the social by means of the cell phone. No one can "settle-in" on a street they do not “What emerges from the fading social norms is naked, frightened, aggressive ego in search of love and help. In t
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  • Course Materials
    *209 Theory Seminar [[Cities and Cyborgs: Computing and the Metropolis, 1860-2010]] | U *STS.462 [[Social and Political Implications of Technology]] Spring 2006
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  • Articles - In Development
    Guy Debord, "[[Theory of the Derive]]," International Situationiste #2, 1958 Howard Rheingold, [[Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution]], Basic Books, 2002
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  • Bill Hillier
    ...and how it works. He has also written extensively on other aspects of the theory of architecture. Present Appointments: Professor of Architectural and [[Urb *[[The Social Logic of Space]]
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  • Space Syntax
    The Space Syntax Theory rests on three basic conceptions of space: *Hillier B. and Hanson J. (1984), [[The Social Logic of Space]], Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
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  • Space is the Machine
    ....at/ak_stdb/SpaceIsTheMachine.pdf Space is the machine - A configurational theory of architecture] by Bill Hillier, p. 188.</ref> *[[The Social Logic of Space]]
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  • Continental Philosophy
    Since Levi-Strauss' structuralist revolution, Anthropology has been the social science home of [[Continental Philosophy]]. Kicked out of most Philosophy d # Continental Philosophy questions/engages the social conditions that facilitate techno-science and is hyper-aware of the dangers
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  • Interaction Ritual : Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior
    The category of the everyday has designated in social theory the remainder, what is left over after the important regions of politics an
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  • Consumption and Digital Commodities In the Everyday
    The category of the everyday has designated in social theory the remainder, what is left over after the important regions of politics an
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  • The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century
    ...l norms and different ways of presenting oneself. Each space has different social classes and entrance requirements. But with a computer or iPhone, the trave ...s, text begins to become social objects, developing personality and having social value.
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  • Facebook
    Facebook is a social network service and website launched in February 2004 and currently has mor ...cultures. Events can be established every Friday night that members of the social groups are invited to, and only these group members can see them.
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  • Cell Phones and Their Technosocial Sites of Engagement
    ...the effects of widespread [[mobile technologies|mobile telephony]] on the social and spatial relations of individuals in the postmodern state. This is the r ...c and private space. When the public sphere becomes completely private the social sphere will become public again, but the field of interaction will be globa
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  • The Anthropology of Computing: Digital Cultures Spring 2009 MIT
    ...cts and associated practices anthropologically, in order to understand the social orders and cultural assumptions that sustain them. The course readings incl ...& New York: Routledge. Mackenzie, Donald A. and *Wajcman, Judy (1999) The social shaping of technology. Buckingham ; Philadelphia, Pa.: Open University Pres
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  • The Anthropology of Cybercultures
    ...l and material practices that comprise digital technologies. We'll examine social histories of automata and automation; the trope of the 'cyber' and its orig ...l and material practices that comprise digital technologies. We'll examine social histories of automata and automation; the trope of the 'cyber' and its orig
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  • User Experience Reading List - Compiled by Christina Wasson
    ...rise and fall of the Postal Buddy. In Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction, ed. Bonnie A. Nardi. Cambridge, MA: MIT Pre Shapiro, Dan. 1994. The limits of ethnography: combining social sciences for CSCW. In Proceedings of the conference on computer supported c
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  • Mary Flanagan
    ...y work, her commitment to a theory/practice dialogue, and contributions to social justice design arenas. Her research examines the boundaries between the per ...hard drive, Flanagan reworks these activities to blur the line between the social uses of technology, and what these activities tell us about the technology
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  • Revisiting Equipotential Space
    ...Serverino writes, “can function all over the world, regardless of local social, political or economic conditions. The same airplanes regularly serve all c ...tems occur. A user enters a system, and after setting up a lathe string of social input (realized that there is no data to "act on"; nothing go do in the sys
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  • Time and Space Compression
    ...architectures that are characterized by the automatic production of space. Social networks, blogs, websites and the entirety of the Internet are the most rec ===Theory===
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  • The Presentation of Self in Digital Life
    ...rces that push humans to interact in a way that is congruent with accepted social rules", he writes. Goffman describes the adherence to these norms of behavi ...mum. One learns about the code of social adherence as one moves across the social landscape. A sharp look at a staring stranger is enough to get a point acro
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  • UX Glossary
    ...ty testing in product design and development, in psychology and a range of social sciences (e.g., reading, writing and translation process research). The thi ...igned to change attitudes or behaviors of the users through persuasion and social influence, but not through coercion (Fogg 2002). Such technologies are regu
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  • UX Journals
    ...ernet Applications, from various perspectives such as technical, cultural, social, and communicational. ...s placed on interdisciplinary material and on the close connection between theory and practice.
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  • What is a Cyborg
    ...f social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fict Diane Greco, Program in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  • Inverge ‘08 Transcript: From Telephone To Tweetup
    ====Some Theory Behind the Subject==== The invention of the telephone ushered in an era of ‘on-demand’ social connection. These conversations were freeing, but were still limited to loc
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  • Temp
    [[The Theory of the Leisure Class]] by Thorstein Veblen (Author), C. Wright Mills (Intro [[The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces]] by William Hollingsworth Whyte
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  • Topics in Cyborg Anthropology
    ===Actor Network Theory=== [[Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory]] by [[Bruno Latour]]
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  • From Telephone To Tweetup - A Brief History of Technosocial Development and Exchange
    Right now, search engines and people are interacting with your social profiles and websites. *And with social networking sites like Twitter, you can watch many conversations at once.
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  • Privacy And The Extended Self
    ===A Social Networks Theory of Privacy=== ...vacy in a particular fact that he has shared with one or more persons. The social networks literature has generated theoretical and empirical insights about
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  • Key Terms
    ...en, the term and the methodology it represents have gained currency in the social sciences and beyond. Today, "thick description" is used in a variety of fie In Geertz's essay, "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture", (Geertz 1973:3-30) he explains that he adopted the term from p
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  • Activity Theory
    '''Activity Theory''' describes the theory that all human activities are driven by needs. These needs can be real or p ...ygotsky 1978; Leont'ev 1981).</ref> The basic unit of analysis in activity theory is human activity. Human activities are driven by certain needs where peopl
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  • Technology is Opportunity
    ...ation of language and how its inricate in world building. humnitairn good. social good. ...stic. these are visual narratives. our experiences online are tremendously social. the artifical intelligence only helps us to get to the content that other
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  • Celebrity as Cyborg
    ...celebrity is the ultimate form of cyborg. It exists on an [[Actor Network Theory|Actor Network]] of technosocial connections attached to a system of product ...p://celebritycultureandtheamericandream.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/celebrity-social-networking-and-intimacy/</ref> One can almost feel like they are hanging ou
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  • Liminal Space
    ...>Latour, Bruno. 'Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford, UK: Oxford UP, 2005.</ref> The idea was that when young boys went
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  • Anomie
    ...ovides a virtual ‘vacation’ from the isolation of modernity. An online social network helps relieve the feelings of Anomie caused by one's nearby geograp ...gy combined, the subject can become an Actor on the larger [[Actor Network Theory|Actor Network]]. In this respect, mobile technology can help prevent feelin
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  • On the Mortality of Industrial Society
    ...connections. In the face of this Anomie, the cell phone allows an organic social network. Through the subject and the technology combined, the subject can b “What emerges from the fading social norms is naked, frightened, aggressive ego in search of love and help. The
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  • Some Notes on Facebook
    ...cultures. Events can be established every Friday night that members of the social groups are invited to, and only these group members can see them. Facebook and ANT ([[Actor Network Theory]]) and the agency of nonhumans.
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  • Ethical Guidelines in the Training of Practicing Anthropologists
    ...such as cultural ecology, organizational behavior, economic anthropology, social organization, and gender studies. ...f the work setting of practicing anthropologists, 3) knowledge utilization theory, 4) communication to clients and sponsors, 5) alternate modes of research a
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  • Alice Marwick
    ...YU in 2010. Her dissertation examined how people use social media to boost social status, focusing on life-streaming, micro-celebrity, and self-branding. Internet studies and new media theory, information policy, online privacy, feminist media studies, online identit
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  • Escape Velocity of Data
    1000 Days of Theory Belinda Barnet ..., so that the object has weight, shape and mass. It then becomes an analog social object.
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  • Re-colonization of Public Space
    ...tution for what is missed in society. It has become an institution for the social, just as the educational system is an institution that replaces the family, ...its citizenship fall to individual concerns is open to reconnection of the social by means of the cell phone.
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  • Mental Real Estate
    ...o, A. "Unravelling the size distribution of social groups with information theory on complex networks". 2009.</ref> that really these other people in real li
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  • Interface
    ===Social Interface=== ...tical or a practical perspective. As a concept of social interface theory, social interface is defined by Long (1989, 2001). In 2001 his revised definition w
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  • Andy Miah
    ...he Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association, the Society for Social Studies of Science.
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