- Every digital media technology has an architecture using diagrams to compare pare physical architectures with digital architectures.
What is CSCW?
- CSCW is a generic term, which combines the understanding of the way people work in groups with the enabling technologies of computer networking, and associated hardware, software, services and techniques. For exmaple CAD/CAM,ABB Powerwall, Drug Design.
Winograd and Flores: model of conversation
- Conversations anr sequences of actions because by saying things people are understood to be doing things.
The Conversation for Action
┌"Request" or "Offer"─>"promise"─>Performer┐
│ Conditions of Satisfaction
│ Satisfying commitments of
│ who,what,and when
└"Declare Satisfied"<─"Declare Complete"<─ ┘
Phsical architecture and digital architecture
- For example, The Social Logic of space by Bell Hillier and Julienne Hanson
This book presents a general theory of physical architecture influences social relationships.
What is CyberSpace?
- Cyberspace is a domain characterized by the use of electronics and the electromagnetic spectrum to store, modify, and exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures.
Agre's "Surveillance model"
- Visual metaphors
- Assumption that watching is non-disruptive
- Territorial metaphors as in the "invasion of private space."
- Centralized orchestration by means of a bureaucracy with a unified set of files.
- Identification with the state and malecolent aims of a specifically political.
Surveillance
- Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior. Systems surveillance is the process of monitoring the behavior of people, objects or processes within systems for conformity to expected or desired norms in trusted systems for security or social control.
Political economy of capture
- "by imoosing a mathematically precise form upon previously unformalized activities, capture standardizes those acticities and their component elements and thereby prepares them for an eventual transition to market-based relationships