The summary for the week ( 30th April, 2nd May)

As I get the introduction to information technology class, I compare between the art and computer technology. After a computer is common to us, there are many relatives to us. I learned CSCW (computer supported cooperative work), every digital media technology has an architecture using diagrams to compare physical architectures with digital architecture, the surveillance model and Dr. Yoon mentioned again that technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic and philosophical ideas and relationships. He let us watched a movie which is Charlie Chaplin’s modern times.

What is the ethnomethodology? An ethnomethodology is that how people make sense of the social world. Ethnomethodologists assume that social order is illusory. They believe that social life merely appears to be orderly; in reality it is potentially chaotic. For them social order is constructed in the minds of social actors as society confronts the individual as a series of sense impressions and experiences which she or he must somehow organize into a coherent pattern.

I watched Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin. The movie represents the era of the beginning of the modern society. I think that the movie is related with CSCW (computer supported cooperative work) and it is a little bit humorous. So what is the CSCW? As I mentioned before, it is the cooperative working when we work by using computer and it is decide what to do. For example, there are Photoshop, illustration. These softwares are instead of us. It means that we can draw a straight line by using these tools and we do not need do whole part of working. There is CAD which is used to architecture. It is usable not only architecture but also products design. CAD is convenient to draft what you construct and design so numerous designers use CAD when they draw a plan to construct a building. Therefore, as we use the software which is like CAD, Adobe Photoshop, Illustration etc, we can make the relation with the topic that is mentioned before. The topic was that technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic and philosophical ideas and relationships.

The last topic is Agre’s surveillance model. Surveillance means that observing or concentrating to something or someone. We can us the surveillance model in now days. For instant, parents who send their childern to kidergarten, they can watch their children on the web because some kindergartens offer to see children by establishing web cam in the classroom. so they trust them and are able to concentrate on their work. Surveillance model is s a visual metaphors. It is assumed that watching is non-disruptive. Also it is territorial metaphors as in the invasion of private space. Surveillance model is identification with the state and malevolent aims of a specifically political nature.

I think that this week class has lots of connection with architecture. I become aware of the important of information technology because everything in our life is related to information technology.