Week 13
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Week 13
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[edit] Week 13
- Notes
- Next week - 5-6 minute final presentations
- Final projects due 5PM on April 29 (via email, I will confirm)
- Any questions?
- Ibiblio is hiring
- This Week's Del.icio.us links
[edit] Ubiquitous and Mobile Social Networks
[edit] Turkle
- The Tethered Self
- The interaction of expectation and ubiquitous technology create the "always on" person
- Are you always reachable?
- When are you away from technology?
- Are you ever non-findable?
- The interaction of expectation and ubiquitous technology create the "always on" person
- Turkle's romantic notion of space
- Did we ever really talk to one another? Is this just an imagination of American culture?
- Does being always-on detract from the quality of interaction? Because your mobile works in Italy, are you having a different vacation experience?
- Or is it about who is at the "other end" of your technology?
- Did we ever really talk to one another? Is this just an imagination of American culture?
- The tethered teen
- Compare Ling/Yttri's notion vs Turkle's
- Ling - tethers = freedom
- Turkle - tethers = hegemony
- Compare Ling/Yttri's notion vs Turkle's
- The effects of "accessibility and self-discipline"
- If we're always attached, are consequences also omnipresent?
- Is it the device, or norms?
[edit] Ling and Yttri
Interesting Datapoint Phonebook population - Post
- To what extent does the mobile phone subvert parental control?
- How do young people "communicate around" power boundaries? Examples?
- Phone as an identity element? Sill valid?
- Phone has lowered barriers to access; will we see pushback? What are we seeing currently?
- Micro and hyper-coordination
- Drawbacks of hyper-coordination? Do you feel too connected?
- Does hyper-coordination lead to lasting intense relationships?
- Movements of technology from the "instrumental" to the expressive; a paradigm shift?
[edit] Group Exercise
Four groups, address the following questions:
Looking five years out, how will we use social technology in the following areas:
- Work
- Personal relationships
- Education (both higher ed and primary/secondary)
[edit] Presentations
- Philip F.
- Jordan F.
