last week

5. 04

key-point
every digital media technology has an architecture using diagrams to compare physical architectures with digital architectures
Agre
–the surveillance model
–architectures of surveillance
–the capture model & its relation to Winograd and Flores


Winograd and Flores

-Winograd and Flores present a methodology for CSCW analysis and design. This methodology is commonly known as the “language/action” perspective.


design as conversation construction

-any organization is constituted as a network of recurrent conversations (ex: issue, topic, theme…)
-conversations are linked in regular patterns of triggering and breakdown (ex: next issues…)
-in creating tools we are designing new conversations and connections (ex: ways, methods, rules…)
-computers are a tool for conducting the network of conversations (ex: how-to, clues ….)


Winograd and Flores: model of conversation

-conversations are sequences of actions because by saying things people are understood to be doing things;


what happens when we incorporate (perhaps even automate) a network of recurrent conversations in a media technology?
–it changes the conversations or social relations.


Every digital media technology has an architecture that can be used to transform work, play and governance.

physical architecture and digital architecture


what is the architecture of cyberspace?
-consider the hardware and software that links together (or separates) groups of people


surveillance

-close watch kept over someone or something
-Etymology: French, from surveiller to watch over, from sur- + veiller to watch, from Latin vigilare, from vigil watchful


history of surveillance: the panopticon
-Panopticon developed by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century for prison
-similar designs adapted for hospitals and factories

capture (in comparison with surveillance)

-linguistic metaphors instead of visual metaphors
-instrumentation and reorganization of activities rather than a non-disruptive data collection
-organization using categories of connected activities (cf. assembly lines) instead of organization by “territories” (e.g., private space versus work space)
-local storage and use of captured data versus centrally organized monitoring
-the driving aims are not necessarily political, but philosophical/market driven


five stage cycle of grammars of action
-analysis
-articulation
-imposition
-instrumentation
-elaboration


I more listened the lecture, the more fun.
I took a note and I wrote the important things in the lecture.
I expect next lecture