2008년 5월 3일 토요일

7th summary

This week we learned about Computer aid. First, we watched a famous video clip “Modern Times” which is made by Charlie Chaplin. It showed people going to work which looked like pigs are moving into their pigpen and all the machinery (technology) making people move like computer: people do as they were told which is repeating the same process whole time. Also another video clip that was about CAD (Computer Aided Design) and CAM (Computer Aided Manufacture) software eliminates people and discards old factory and replaces by computers. The clip was funny but the subject was actually pessimistic to the computer machines.
This week’s key point is that every digital media technology has an architecture using diagrams to compare physical architectures with digital architectures.
Constructing design as conversation was that conversations are sequences of actions caused by saying things that people understand and doing things. It means that saying equals to doing. For example when people get married or when they testify in the court, they say “I do” which are not just words, but words that perform actions. In our classroom, our network of repeating conversations is organization and We use computers and networks to conduct this network of conversation by creating tools and new media technologies might be designed to create new conversations and connections by email, messenger, blog system. We saw a clip that used ipod? (some kind of PDA) dragging the item to the screen and that gave the information and it could also interact with the screen from distance.
On Friday, we talked about cyber space which is a space that we cannot grab or stay in it. The architecture is like designing web pages and the important thing is that the structure should be efficient. For example, the school office should be in the first floor as it is easy to access. It was built in logical way. Also, we learned about social logic that is some kind of communication between people. For another instance, as center is easy to access the center of the city is City Hall. Same to the protocols in cyber space too. But it can be all different to all the people. It is physical but also logical structure.
In Agre’s surveillance model, it is about us (people) supervising as we are worried. We have webcams that we can see. Also we can’t use email, messenger when we are working or sometimes we cannot bring USB to the company as we are afraid of industrial spies. But how would it be if our entire world was all transparent? We would have no criminals but we would have no privacy or liberty.

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