ANT 1101 Lecture : Class 13. The Anthropology of Computing Part 1.docx
2 Nov 2012
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The anthropology of computing part 1: the software & hardware. Gibson defines cyberspace as a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators a graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Sociotechnical systems: refers to the interaction between society"s complex infrastructures an human behaviour. Deep faith and dependence on google, we don"t criticize what we read. Algorithm: a procedure or formula for solving a problem (how to take the bus) Algorithmic culture: describes how some aspects of the work of culture the sorting, classifying, hierarchizing, and curating of people, places, objects and ideas are becoming the purview of machine-based information processing systems .
