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• What is Cyborg Anthropology?
  ...s treated as a social actor, modifying relations and stratifying knowledge systems. Tools are examined as much as people are, as people with different tools a ...ology and applies it to technology, non-human objects, and global cultural systems involving information and communication. Time and space, interfaces, and th
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• What is a Cyborg?
  ...ns of such a close coupling of bodies and machines. Yet, despite hypertext theory's embrace of avant garde literary productions and its sympathies with postm ...cluding people with electronic pacemakers, artificial joints, drug implant systems, implanted corneal lenses, and artificial skin. A much higher percentage pa
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• Conferences
  ...process of interaction that happens not only between humans and technical systems, but also between human actors mediated by Web platforms, the process in wh ...b systems, computational intelligence, human-computer interaction, digital theory, Web sociology, and well as interactive and digital arts. We also encourage
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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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• Course Materials
  *209 Theory Seminar [[Cities and Cyborgs: Computing and the Metropolis, 1860-2010]] | U *MAS.962 [[Autism Theory and Technology]] Spring 2006
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• 4th Wave Cybernetics
  ...a brain is required to write a theory of a brain. From this follows that a theory writing of this theory. And even more fascinating, the writer of this theory has to
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• The Anthropology of Computing: Digital Cultures Spring 2009 MIT
  ...at you’ll be asked to do and what you hope to learn. We’ll clarify how theory and methods from anthropology and science and technology studies will infor ...99) Worlding Cyberspace: Toward a critical ethnography in time, space, and theory. In G. Marcus (ed.), Critical Anthropology Now pp. 245-304. Santa Fe, NM: S
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• The Anthropology of Cybercultures
  ...about their research interests and hopes for the course. We'll clarify how theory and methods from anthropology and science and technology studies will infor ...l. "Worlding Cyberspace: Toward a Critical Ethnography in Time, Space, and Theory." In Critical Anthropology Now. Edited by George E. Marcus. Santa Fe, NM: S
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• User Experience Reading List - Compiled by Christina Wasson
  ...P. Sawyer, D. Shapiro, and I. Sommerville. 1992. Ethnographically-informed systems design for air traffic control. In Proceedings of the conference on compute Crabtree, Andy. 2003. Designing collaborative systems: a practical guide to ethnography. London: Springer.
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• Mary Flanagan
  ...national acclaim for her novel interdisciplinary work, her commitment to a theory/practice dialogue, and contributions to social justice design arenas. Her r ...s about the technology user themselves. Her artwork ranges from game based systems to computer viruses, embodied interfaces to interactive texts; these works
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• Revisiting Equipotential Space
  ...nts can take the shape of heavy information architectures. This results in systems with excessive clicks to get to data, or information buried behind many wal ...ized that there is no data to "act on"; nothing go do in the system. These systems usually fail because of this. (example? any network with no content. Aimles
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• UX Reading List
  ====The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems, by Jef Raskin==== ...wards joining science to the practical design of information visualization systems."
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• Time and Space Compression
  ...s a faster culture. The compression of time and space create fractal value systems and hyperarchitectures that are characterized by the automatic production o ===Theory===
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• UX Glossary
  ...ces, and human-centric computer interaction design and is characterized by systems and technologies that are (Zelkha & Epstein 1998; Aarts, Harwig & Schuurman ...del which describes the steps humans take when they interact with computer systems. The model was proposed by Donald A. Norman, a scholar in the discipline of
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• Agile Development Methodology
  ...software design. "Use cases" describe how "actors" interact with computer systems and are essential to software-modeling requirements. For anyone who designs ...iting step-by-step descriptions of the way users (or actors) interact with systems. Besides being an exceptionally clear writer, the author has plenty to say
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• What is a Cyborg
  ...ns of such a close coupling of bodies and machines. Yet, despite hypertext theory's embrace of avant garde literary productions and its sympathies with postm ...cluding people with electronic pacemakers, artificial joints, drug implant systems, implanted corneal lenses, and artificial skin. A much higher percentage pa
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• History of Cybernetics
  ...nditions and makes adjustments to stay on track, biological and mechanical systems employ circular causal processes to achieve self-governance and homeostasis ...emain relevant in today's complex networks, algorithms, and interconnected systems. The ancient steersman thus provided an apt metaphorical origin for a far-r
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• Technology is Opportunity
  the leaders need to by systems oriented. and if you just think on that systems level you'll be able to work. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari used the term "rhizome" to describe theory and research that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit poin
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• Interface
  "An interface is a point of interaction between two systems or work groups" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface] ...t of user interfaces include the interactive aspects of computer operating systems, hand tools, heavy machinery operator controls. and process controls. The d
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• Andy Miah
  ...ns of pervasive wireless connectivity and the convergence of technological systems and the modification of biological matter through nanotechnology and gene t ...group, the Society of Applied Philosophy, the British Society for Ethical Theory, the International Association of Bioethics, and the Media, Communications
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• James Case
  ...s at the University of Utah during the advent of computer graphics [[Adobe Systems]], [[Atari]] and [[Evans and Sutherland]]. He was a pioneer in the field of A Modification of Moore-Smith Convergence Theory

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• Erica Robles
  ...., Bienstock, H., Treinen, M., & Heenan, C. (2003). Voice-based disclosure systems: Effects of modality, gender of prompt, and gender of user. International J *[[Architecture Theory]]
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• Ethics in Anthropology: Public Presentation of Anthropological Material
  ...For example: Malinowski’s writing on the Trobrianders reflected Freudian theory; Evans-Pritchard’s book on Zande magic challenged the European rationale; ...e her cultural relativist orientation, she did not understand the existing systems of law in New Guinea, and believed that they could not govern themselves wi
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• Technology and Change in Rural America
  ...deral governments and NGOs in production systems; women in food production systems; and the green revolution. ...ntersection of science and technology with agriculture and food production systems in the 20th century. A basic premise is that, when things become industrial
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• The Anthropology of Computing
  ...analyzing links between machines and culture. We explore early computation theory and capitalist manufacturing; cybernetics and WWII operations research; art *8 Postcolonial Recalculations: Legacies of African Mathematical Systems
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• Cultural History of Technology
  *8 Systems and Networks *[H] Peckham, M. "Toward a Theory of Romanticism."
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• NoGoZone
  ...ower, final organ of disappearance? Balkanization and ethnic cleansing? Is theory a zodiac we can skry? Can we make some New Year predictions, like the Natio ...igns of disintegration will become more and more obvious to experience and theory, but will not erase the simulacrum of the totality with any "revolutionary"
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• Machinic Life
  ...er immune systems, artificial protocells, evolutionary robotics, and swarm systems, Johnston argues, machinic life has achieved a complexity and autonomy wort ...entists as well as a range of work in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory, but always with the primary focus on the "objects at hand"—the machines,
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• Actor Network Theory
  ...a as distributed networks with interrelated nodes. It draws from emergence theory, computing, and other disciplines to understand both the nodes of the syste ...Latour, Bruno. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor–Network Theory. Oxford University Press, 2005.</ref> Through this approach, Latour avoids
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• Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to Cognisphere
  N. Katherine Hayles Theory Culture Society 2006 23: 159 DOI: 10.1177/0263276406069229 Theory, Culture & Society
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• Anthropology of Gaming
  ...history, structure, and culture of Warcraft; argues for applying activity theory and theories of aesthetic experience to the study of gaming and play; and e ...cologies: Using Technology with Heart and Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design".
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• Social Architecture
  "Social architecture is a field which looks at how to engineer social systems and media tools (sometimes synonymous with Web 2.0) and UX strategy in orde ...of sociality are created, interact and emerge over time, and how different systems of socialization lead to different outcomes. The social architecture of one
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• Defining Cyborg Anthropology
  ...implants, pacemakers. This definition is too narrow to capture many of the systems that go beyond this very specific notion of cyborg. ...the technological systems it has built, specifically modern technological systems that have reflexively impacted notions of what it means to be humans.
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• Mundane Studies
  Mundane Studies is a term used to describe the study of the events and systems that comprise the experiences of everyday life. Studying everyday life is i ...portionate theoretical attention from researchers. This ultimately hinders theory development and distorts our picture of social reality. This manifesto pave
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• Mundane Science Fiction
  ...entary would entail. Much of mundane science fiction is a way of exploring systems and futures without actually creating them. ...theoretical attention from researchers," and that this "ultimately hinders theory development and distorts our picture of social reality". A Mundane Manifest
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• Flow, Interaction Design And Contemporary Boredom
  ...too will its need to feel stimulus vicariously through external items, or systems within those material goods. Entertainment will increase as spaces of bored ...ch purpose is other than just effectiveness and productivity, they mention systems and artifacts that have added features of being “satisfying, enjoyable, f
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• Full text of A Cyborg Manifesto
  ...tion. It is also an effort to contribute to socialist-feminist culture and theory in a postmodernist, non-naturalist mode and in the utopian tradition of ima ...oss the discredited breach of nature and culture. Biology and evolutionary theory over the last two centuries have simultaneously produced modern organisms a
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• Notes on MySpace and Legendary Psychasthenia
  ...in his 1987 text, The Ecstasy of Communication (3). Baudrillard’s entire theory is built upon a critique of contemporary mediated relations as merely simul ...r non-specialists to produce (personal web pages) or spread across several systems (email, messaging, photo hosting, blogs etc.), combined with their word-of-
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• Charis Thompson
  ...unt of transformative opportunity that can be actualized inside those same systems. [[Actor-Network Theory]]
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• Questions for Wired Magazine
  ...milar desires and actions. I’m really looking for the elements that form systems. Once you understand a system (i.e. if A happens, B will happen) then you c ...r to objectively observe and stay distant enough to make conclusions about systems and trends. On the other hand, it’s often easier because one might alread
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• Principles of the Self-Organizing System
  ...complex systems. He is known for developing principles of self-organizing systems. Conducted influential research on homeostatic machines and adaptive systems.
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• Ratio Club
  ...ientists who were among the first to study [[cybernetics]] and information theory in Britain. ...father of [[homeostatics]] for modeling dynamic equilibrium in biological systems; Heinz von Foerster, the Austrian born computer scientist and philosopher;
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• Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence
  * Algorithmic transformation of social systems Contemporary AI systems function as complex cultural technologies that continuously negotiate, prod
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• Pool of Light
  * Attachment theory * Ceiling-mounted systems
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• Wisdom Weavers
  * Complex systems understanding * Wisdom preservation systems
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• Technological Mediation of Care
  ...ation, but through a fundamental restructuring of relational logics. These systems do not merely replace maternal function; they create entirely new ontologic # Critical Theory of Technology
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• Film as Common Mythology
  * Psychological projection systems Film genres function as sophisticated mythological systems, generating complex symbolic frameworks that mediate collective experiences
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• The Fractal Production of Value
  * Nested value production systems ...alue production transcends traditional economic models, creating intricate systems where value is simultaneously generated, extracted, and transformed across
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• Ontological Buoyancy
  *Cybernetics & Media Theory: Explores how technology reshapes identity and human interaction. ...voiding ideological capture while still engaging meaningfully with digital systems.
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• Requisite Variety
  '''Requisite variety''' is a principle from cybernetics and systems theory that states that a system must possess at least as much complexity as the e === Cybernetics and Systems Theory ===
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