Thursday, February 12, 2009

Class notes - Feb 12

WASTE

examples:
ubiquitous mozilla
cornify
unicorn lady

FORMS OF WASTE
  • time vs. experience
  • energy - cognitive, electrical, physical
  • resources - material, financial
  • opportunity 
  • technology
depends on... 
  • how you use them?
  • efficiency?
  • purpose? productive? 
  • trade offs
ex. QWERTY keyboards
  • inefficient layout
  • create new one VS standardize VS customize
  • learning a new method - wastes time
  • during planning / execution / use
ex. US analog/ digital signals - 

WASTE - relative? universal? 

ex. Gillette scam, printer VS ink

Participation: 
ex. discussion VS activism - facebook, forums, strike... Green campaign, (Red) products, petitions 
- small action VS actual action -- fulfilling? does it actually contribute? 
- diminishes the actual action??! 
- does potential efficiency matter? or the belief that it had an impact? 

HWK: 
- Waste in relation to Gift Economy - research
- in relation to Participative Communication/ Culture
- to engage - ow do we interact? and move from that? 

- every week, present work in progress and what you learned. 

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Sindy Ng - SOSC 4330 Participative Communication - FW 08/09 - Communication Studies - York University