arin2600 2009 l1 what is technoculture
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An introduction to the concept of 'technoculture', a term that conjoins concepts that are often conventionally separated in Western thought. This year the lecture uses Twitter as a case study of a technology that in inextricably bound in culture. Chris Chesher, Digital Cultures, March 12 2009TRANSCRIPT
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What is technoculture?Week 2–3 ARIN2600 Technocultures
Semester 1, 2009Chris Chesher
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Techno-
• Technology
• craftsmanship + reckoning
• technique + word
• techne: uncovering (Heidegger)
• tools, machines, materials and processes
• technological determinism or social construction? (are those the only choices?)
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-culture
• Cultivation
• Culture and Civilisation
• Issues in culture:
• cultural differences / diversity
• material culture (artefacts)
• popular cultures
• cultural studies
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TECHNOLOGY
CULTUREValues
MeaningsIdentity
SubjectivityNationality
EthnicitySexuality
GenderArtefacts
Texts
Images
Practices
Beliefs
toolsmachinesmaterialsprocesses
state of the artstandards techniquestraining
Class Institutions
inputsoutputsinterfaceswaste
Age
Professions Ritual
Politics
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Technocultures Case Study
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twitter featurestwitstreams
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Technological? Cultural?
XML protocols; codes; writing; news
URLlink; reference;
connection
clients / serversownership; control;
sharing
APIconnection; mash-ups;
open systems
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhAAu8hNP0w
rocket boom
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Technocultural tropes
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Techno-perception
• Reveal the imperceptible
• distant things (telescope; GPS)
• small things (microscope)
• outside sensory range (infrared)
• outside real time (high speed cameras)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-TcBnfE6qU
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Techno-relationships
• Interpersonal communication
• mobile phone
• voice, text, GPS, bluetooth
• contact lists, organiser, etc
• email & messaging chat
• MySpace / facebook social software
• personal profileshttp://www.soft3k.com/imgs/SmileySaver-Screensaver-w300-10327.jpg
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Techno-institutions
• Regulators: Parliament; ABA
• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Bill 1999
• Industry bodies
• Internet Industry Association
• AIMIA (Interactive Media)
• Game Developers Assoc. of Australia
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Techno-imaginary
• Anxieties about technology out of control:
• privacy
• competency and redundancy
• Exuberance at possibilities
• technology as a panacea
• economic benefits (dot com boom)
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Animatrix (2003)
• ‘The second renaissance’ presents an almost biblical back-story to the Matrix series. First there was man and it was good; but man became corrupted. Man created technology, and it was good for a while...
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Animatrix Village Roadshow Films (2003) Warner Brothers Home Video
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Techno-ethics
• Moral panics
• computer games: violence; time-wasting
• mobile phone health scares
• driving & mobiles
• Government regulation: content; codes of practice; children’s use of Internet
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Techno-workNew work practices
call centres; HTML slavesNew business models
Consumer rightsWork organisation
(Zuboff: informating)
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About this unit of studyTechnocultures 2009
Digital Cultures programChris Chesher & Kathy Cleland
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Lectures
• (you’re at one now)
• Thursdays 10am McRae Room S418
• Lectures relate to next Monday’s tutorials
• I’ve split the lectures from tutorials to give you time to read the readings with some context
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Tutorials
• Kathy Cleland and Chris Chesher
• All currently in Transient 170-171
• 10am-12pm Monday CC 170/1 Transient
• 11am-1pm Monday KC CR109 Brennan
• 1pm-3pm Monday CC CR109 Brennan
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Assessment
1. Web / presentation 10 minutes + 500 words 25%
2. Analyse influences on & influence of a reading 1500 words 25%
3. Technoculture essay 2000 words 30%
4. Participation online & offline continuous 20%
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Get online
• moodle.arts.usyd.edu.au (no www)
• create an account (confirm by email)
• username and password you’ll remember
• Use initial caps for your First Name and Last Name:
• eg. Chris Chesher NOT chris chesher
• enter enrolment keys:• 10am donna; 1pm bruno; 3pm felix
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What is on moodle?
• All core unit of study information
• Weekly summary of topics
• Some lecture slides downloadable afterwards
• Links to relevant online resources
• Activities: wikis, forums, glossary, chat, etc
• Submit some assignments
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ReadingsMcCarthy, John and Peter Wright (2004) ‘Living with technology’ in Technology as experience, Cambridge and London: The MIT Press. pp 1-22.
Chun, Wendy H. K. (2006). Control and freedom: power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
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Next week: McLuhan
• ‘The medium is the message’
• communication technology and cognition
• sense ratios visual > oral/aural
• Hot and Cool media
• Allatonceness
• creating probes
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