Developing the Technological Imagination

1. Developing the Technological Imagination Today: The Internet Galaxy, Network Society http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370

2. Developing the Technological Imagination Critical Review Papers Due Date Change: Feb. 7th, Monday The Template Proofreading & Submitting Technical Object Papers Topics Finalize List, WebQ Ranking, Schedule Topics: [community, time/speed, memory, gaming]property/piracy, hacking, surveillance/privacy, pop-culture, work/labor, reading, the self/identity, the body/experience, education/knowledge, a/v techs http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370

3. Developing the Technological Imagination Looking Back, Looking Forward -Convergence on the Computer, Rise of the Interface-New Dataspaces, Cultural Interfaces-The Society of the Screen, Viewing Regimes Technology and Democratic Culture-Digital Activism-Guest Speaker: Mary C. Joyce of Meta-Activism.org http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370

4. Developing the Technological Imagination New Media Captivation -“perspectival machines”: painting, film, television, radar, computer screen -the world, “focused and unified by the screen” (104) -mobility and the body / the Paradox of VR -spatialization, anti-linearity How might Manovich’s arguments about the “society of the screen” and interfaces play out when the desktop gives way to the laptop, the smartphone, and other mobile computing devices? http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370

5. Developing the Technological Imagination Castells: The Network Society “A technological revolution, centered on information technologies, is reshaping, at accelerated pace, the material basis of society. Economies throughout the world have become globally interdependent, introducing a new form of relationship between economy, state, and society, in a system of variable geometry.” “People increasingly organize their meaning not around what they do but on what they are, or believe they are. Meanwhile, on the other hand, global networks of instrumental exchanges selectively switch on and off individuals, groups, regions, and even countries, according to their relevance in fulfilling the goals processed in the network, in a relentless flow of strategic decisions.” http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370

6. Developing the Technological Imagination From Desktop to Network -The Network Metaphor: links, webs, flows, ecologies -Castells: from the flow of power to the power of flows Pres. Obama (last night): “The rules have changed. In a single generation, revolutions in technology havetransformed the way we lie, work and dobusiness.” A Concrete Exemplar: Sleep Dealer (2008) http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370

7. Developing the Technological Imagination 30yrs: From Frontier to Environment -Rise of PCs, BBSs (1980s)-Rise of Internet, Web (1990s)-Rise of Wireless Tech (2000s+) 80+% now Benkler: Wealth of Networks -not passe or naïve to considerthe Internet a revolution -beyond Castells: focus on knowledge and cultural production: a new “wealth” of information -Explosion of Nonmarket, Nonproprietary Production http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370

8. Developing the Technological Imagination Network Society and A(non), 1 Nonmarket Production http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370

9. Developing the Technological Imagination Network Society and A(non), 2 Nonproprietary Production -CC, Kopimi…. & Piracy?-Remix Culture, “Going Viral” http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370

10. Developing the Technological Imagination The Promise of the New Info Environment Individual freedom Better democratic participation More critical/self-reflective culture Improvements in human development In A Way, We are all Children of the 80s and 90s -Cheaper processors (decentralization of computing) -More pervasive networks (interconnection / flow of info) Q: How do we understand and reap what we’ve sewn? http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370

11. Developing the Technological Imagination Paradigm Change: Industrial to Networked Info Econ “What characterizes the networked information economy is that decentralized individual action—specifically, new and important cooperative and coordinate action carried out through radically distributed, nonmarket mechanisms that do not depend on proprietary strategies—plays a much greater role than it did, or could have, in the industrial information economy” (3) -What are the modes of industrial info economies? -What are some new modes you’ve experienced? http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370

12. Developing the Technological Imagination Cooperation, Collective Intelligence The most radical impact: “the rise of effective, large-scale cooperative efforts—peer production of information, knowledge, and culture” (5) Forged in the crucible of the Internet -Pierre Levy, et al. “collective intelligence” -Howard Rheingold, “smart-mobs” Side note: Rethinking “Mind”; externalism -analogs: clockwork, computer, network, ?? -Tron 2, Flynn: “bio-digital jazz, man” http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370

13. Developing the Technological Imagination What does the Network Enhance? Benkler’s McLuhan Moment: Enhanced Autonomy Capacity of individuals to do more autonomously Enhances individual ability to do more with others Improves capacity to do more with nonmarket orgs -From mass mediated to networked public: >>> http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370

14. Developing the Technological Imagination The Internet is not The Web http://staff.washington.edu/schenold/chid370