The unofficial Journal of Interaction Culture has hit the presses (Jeff) and will soon be released (Oncourse). Don’t worry, I won’t charge you anything for the free delays in compiling the Journal. Consider it a gift! For those of you who use PDF bookmarks/outlines, the Journal PDF has bookmarks for each author/paper. You will also…
Paper Stuff UP TO 10 pages. You can be successful with 6+. Style of your argument influences the structure of your paper. Not looking for a specific kind of argument, just a coherent structured one with original thinking in a very expansive sense. Research vs. Design Must have absolute clarity in your argument and thesis…
We discussed meme‘s in class earlier this week in relation to complex systems and HCI. As we mentioned, meme’s are a unit of cultural propagation similar to gene’s for the propagation of DNA. The Internet is responsible for dramatically increased rates of memetic cultural proliferation. However, the rate of memetic proliferation on the Internet has…
Paper Stuff Get as concrete as possible with a close reading and non-obvious insights. Do not worry about justifying structuralism, phenomenology, etc. Use the concepts of the class as tools for critical analysis of your very specific phenomenon. Design Questions Does this help expose something that is hidden? A design insight. Generation of design hypothesis.…
I have a bit of a rambling story to share with the Interaction Culture crew today! As some of you know, I’m immersing myself in postmodern and poststructuralist theory. While google searching for some images describing postmodernism I came across the following comic. Note: I know the comic is too big to fit in the…
Deconstruct Jeff’s post to find the most useful interpretation for our classroom sized lifeworld to discover the intentions of the tissue of quotations composed by an author who does not exist. Poststructuralist Strategies Critique commonsense unities (“self”). There is no self. Self is created/constructed. Always in the process of becoming something better via self-creation and…
Phenomenology and Structuralism Skeptical Phenomenology: no access to truth, cannot understand objective reality as it is or the language that claims to construct it Skeptical Structuralism: thought occurs after language, language is prior to and constitutive of consciousness Combining the two cancels each other out by removing both our consciousness and access to reality. Wittgenstein:…
For those of you who enjoyed “Watch the World’s” during Tuesday’s lecture, here are some more SL machinima works by Robbie Dingo. Meteors Masks More videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/RobbieDingo
Phenomenology and Structuralism Phenomenological analysis of shots in a film depends largely on actual knowledge of the director. What time did the director live? What were their beliefs on film and cinematography? etc. Without this knowledge, you’re not performing an exclusively phenomenological inquiry. Structural analysis of film can access a director’s intention, but the intention…
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