Organizations as Boundary Objects

In this week’s class, we discussed the concept of “boundary objects”, as detailed by Star’s “This is…

Hackers

The idea of what someone can do with computer science has been grossly mirepresented in mainstream media and many people’s perceptions are…

Why We Lose Time: The Myth of Multitasking

I’ve recently begun reading a book by author Judy Wajcman, titled Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism. The primary focus of the book is the phenomenon that, despite technology improving vastly over the past few centuries…

Time and Culture

Most people assume that time is just time, one second is one second regardless of the context, and this is true but how that second is understood depends on the culture and context. The article below gives a semi-business focused account of different cultures attitudes towards time.

Technology for Good

In our reading this week on the Zimbabwe Pump, we analyzed the social implications of technology that is made directly for the purpose of improving the quality of life rather than profit. The discussion of the metal Coltan came up in regards to how it is used to create our iPhones and is mined…

Smartwatches and Slowing Time

Smartwatches are everywhere. On this college campus, I see many students and teachers with smartwatches. In…

Free the Hackers and Geeks

Cryptofreedom a term used by E. Gabriella Coleman and Alex Golub. It is a free open source software and the hacker underground. Globally the hacker community has been bashed in on, therefore, their transgressive pranks of underground hacking reveal the lack of ethics. Because of…

Fake News and Quick Media

As Judy Wajcman discussed in the first chapter of her book Pressed For Time, it is common for contemporary media to portray society as accelerating, in technological production, communication, and the pace of life. Nowhere is this more present then when discussing millennials and…

Technology=Freedom

In the book “The acceleration of life in Digital Capitalism” by Judy Wajcman, we are reminded of how influential and life changing…

Wajcman and “The Right to be Forgotten”

In Pressed for Time Judy Wajcman discusses the perception that modern technology makes people busier and their perceived time happen faster which leads to increased stress. The negative effects of the constantly being “online” applies to The Right to be…

Liberty, Tech, and Information for All: No Matter the Cost

This week’s reading discuss in one way or another the factions that form in our industrious digital age. On one plane of reality Coleman and Kelty analyze communities of hackers that developed their own cultures and a fluid moral…

Time is money, But…

In class this week, we spent most of the time discussing about the concept of time. After reading some of the chapters in the book ‘Pressured for Time’, this book taught me a lot about how modern people living today understand what is time. To start off, lets see what was time in the old ages.

Taking Care of Yourself First

This week was focused on stereotypical views of Hackers and Geeks throughout history the topic of women in tech at its core. During class we watched clips from the documentary “CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap”, which highlighted women in the tech field who are making a…

Hackers and Recursive Publics

This week, we talked about the history and genres of hacking practice and hackers. It’s quite interesting…