Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

That's the power of affordances.

Affordances in technologies don't merely curtail the actions of humans, they prevent alternative actions. As technologies are designed to serve the dominant economic paradigms, they often fail to serve as vehicles for transformative engagements and actions.

Whose concept is that?

 

[MaryJanet]

Whose concept is that?

If you start with Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and then branch into Shannon Vellor's Technology and the Virtues, then learn about technology design practices (any 'how to' type of book), it becomes clear. I have a chapter forthcoming (if they ever publish the book - it seems to be taking a ridiculously long time).

 

[Perris]

so it's your concept? please let me know when your chapter / the book it's in comes out!
I think I've got Zuboff; maybe Vellor; another rabbit hole!

 

[MaryJanet]

so it's your concept? please let me know when your chapter / the book it's in comes out!
I think I've got Zuboff; maybe Vellor; another rabbit hole!

Well, I can't guarantee I haven't been pipped at the post by someone else because that book is taking such a long time to appear and between the research students and several hundred first years, I haven't been watching the field. But I wrote it up nearly two years ago.

 

[Perris]

Two years is nothing in my experience, but it's still unnecessary and avoidable. Hassle the editors; they are probably waiting on one or two delinquents to submit or revise their submissions. I'm sure you can do it with more tact than I can summon

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 70s mostly cloudy.

Have a great day!

 

[ManueB]

If you start with Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and then branch into Shannon Vellor's Technology and the Virtues, then learn about technology design practices (any 'how to' type of book), it becomes clear. I have a chapter forthcoming (if they ever publish the book - it seems to be taking a ridiculously long time).

Affordance was / is the name of a very well known french blog from an IT academics, Olivier Ertzscheid : https://affordance.framasoft.org/
He posts mostly about the situation in french unis now, but he used to write a lot around the impact of technologies on our way of thinking and on teaching that to his students. I followed him around 2010-2015 which was a period when my main job as an academic librarian was teaching.

 

[MaryJanet]

Two years is nothing in my experience, but it's still unnecessary and avoidable. Hassle the editors; they are probably waiting on one or two delinquents to submit or revise their submissions. I'm sure you can do it with more tact than I can summon

I've been politely nagging them - mainly because my dean is nagging me - and so far, it hasn't made a difference. You're not the first person to say two years is nothing for a book.

 

[MaryJanet]

Affordance was / is the name of a very well known french blog from an IT academics, Olivier Ertzscheid : https://affordance.framasoft.org/
He posts mostly about the situation in french unis now, but he used to write a lot around the impact of technologies on our way of thinking and on teaching that to his students. I followed him around 2010-2015 which was a period when my main job as an academic librarian was teaching.

Ah! There we go! I had a hunch someone would get there before me. I'll look him up and see if any of his books are available in English.

 

[ManueB]

Ah! There we go! I had a hunch someone would get there before me. I'll look him up and see if any of his books are available in English.

I don't think he crossed the frontiers! He was always more focused on teaching than research and now he is head of his department I'm not sure he even does research anymore.