Topic |
Tuesday |
Thursday |
Introduction |
Introduction to class |
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August 27 What does it mean to interpret?
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Faith and Suspicion |
Finding meaning in structure |
Sep 1 Systems thinking
Saussure: Part One: General Principles, from Course in General Linguistics
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Sep 3 Metaphors for Meaning
Turner: The Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor
Reddy: The Conduit Metaphor
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Upsetting structures |
Sep 8 Hermeneutics of suspicion
Williams: Ideology
Foucault: Nietzsche, Freud, Marx
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Sep 10 Suspicions about IT
Dunne: Psychosocial Narratives
Dunne and Raby: Designer as Author
Homework: Proposal for short paper I due
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Psychoanalysis |
Sep 15 Finding meaning in the detritus of life
Freud: On Dreams
Ricoeur: The Conflict of Interpretations (read only pp. 20-28 and 32-36)
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Sep 17 Interpretation, or science?
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Understanding being in the world |
Philosophical hermeneutics |
Sep 22 Horizons of understanding
Winograd and Flores: Understanding Computers and Cognition, Chapter 3
Dreyfus: Being-in-the-World: Introduction, Chapters 1-2
Homework: Short paper I due
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Sep 24 Horizons of Artificial Intelligence
Winograd and Flores: Understanding Computers and Cognition, Chapters 1-2 and 6-8
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Ethnography |
Sep 29 Defining ethnography
Dourish: Social Computing
Emerson: Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Chapter 1
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Oct 1 Ethnography of IT and its discontents
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Doing Ethnography |
Oct 6 Ethnography Do-It-Yourself
Emerson et al.: Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes: Chapters 2-4
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Oct 8 Writing and Coding
Emerson et al.: Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes: Chapters 5-6
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Plans and Situated Actions |
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Oct 15 Plans and Situated Actions
Suchman: Plans and Situated Actions: Preface, Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 3: Plans (through section 3.1 only), Chapter 4: Situated actions, Chapter 6: Case and methods
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Plans and Situated Actions II |
Oct 20 Breaking down at copiers
Suchman: Plans and Situated Actions, Chapter 7: Human-machine communication, Chapter 8: Conclusion
Homework: Short paper II due
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Oct 22 Projects workshop
Homework: Ideas for possible final projects due
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Juggling Meanings |
Deconstruction |
Oct 27 Reconstructing deconstruction
Culler: pp. 85-156 of Chapter 2, On Deconstruction
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Oct 29 De/re-constructing IT
Agre: Metaphor in Practice (start on p. 28, "Language in Practice")
Homework: Group final project proposal due
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The proliferation of meanings |
Nov 3 Production of identities
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Nov 5 Proliferating meaning in design
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Re-Interpreting Interaction |
Interpretive Flexibility |
Nov 10 Interpretive flexibility
Oudshoorn and Pinch: Introduction to How Users Matter
Homework: Short paper III due
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Nov 12 Interpreting users and their behaviors Special guest lecturer: Lily Irani Special location: 301 College Ave., Large Conference Room
Woolgar: Configuring the User
Cooper and Bowers: Representing the User
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Appropriation |
Nov 17 Final projects workshop
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Nov 19 Re-appropriating technologies
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Where to from here? |
Nov 24 Guest discussion with Gilly Leshed and Lucian Leahu: From 6341 to publication
Homework: Final Projects Due (Early Deadline)
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Project presentations |
Dec 1 Oral Presentations
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Dec 3 Oral Presentations/Wrap-Up
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Dec 14: Final Project Deadline (Final deadline) |