Category Archives: 4020

for Kinzer’s class

Remember that Daedalus was an Architect

By escrubb | Published: 24.10.2010
This is a reflection on Leander and McKim’s “Tracing the Everyday ‘Sitings’ of Adolescents on the Internet: a strategic adaptation of ethnography across online and offline spaces”. You can find the article here. I liked the article, although their description of methodologies was, as they put it, “imaginative”, or as I put it, “vague, but [...]
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Relational or Causal Hypothesis? – Matei and Rokeach

By escrubb | Published: 07.10.2010
In Matei and Ball-Rokeach’s “Belonging in Geographical, Ethnic, and Internet Spaces” (2002), which I liked, I am most struck at the end by my confusion over tension between the explicit and implicit nature of their hypothesis. Is it relational or causal? At the beginning, they state a relationship. At the end, they (implicitly, but clearly) [...]
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Nothing Gold can Stay

By escrubb | Published: 23.09.2010
For my 4020 class: (all others are outsiders. sorry.) This is the 4th session! There are many more! Time to experiment and test assumptions about others over time through knowledge-generating strategies, and anticip8te future interaction! Qs r filtered owt! AlhowiHg concentr8shun on those that rnt! |)0 _|00 |>|-|33l L1|
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‘information society’ — dependent upon understanding of sci/tech interdepence/definition?

By escrubb | Published: 15.09.2010
In their article ‘The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and Technology Might Benefit Each Other’, Pinch and Bijker highlight the problematic nature of the description of the Science-Technology relationship, especially those descriptions which are a priori. They denigrate the common statement that science is about the ‘discovery of [...]
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In the Country of the Blind the One-Eyed Man ain’t Bing

By escrubb | Published: 04.09.2010
(1st post from within context of 4020 w/ Dr. Kinzer.)The lens through which you look at this ‘content’ is an electric, networked, programmed lens (even if you printed it). These natures affect the content. The electric nature does not seem to do nearly so much as the networked and programmed natures, although the programmed/networked natures [...]
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