Week 5 [Seminar Notes] - The Place and Space of Everyday Technology

Week 5 Seminar Notes

Wednesday Silverstone 325 @ 1pm-3pm

Look over diary entries on study direct. Cover both a weekend and weekday with your own diary.

Spatiality of Technology
- All technologies create a unique spatial environment around them. 

TV
- It's both a piece of furniture in a room and a window to an imaged elsewhere, both a commodity and a way of looking at commodities.
- While we remain attentive, fascinated and glued to what presents itself we are unable to see presence as such, since presence does not present itself, no more than....
- It is a ubiquitous technology and is so integrated into our social and subjective lives.
- We don't tend to take into account we could be watching something that is being filmed thousands of miles away that is projected right in front of us.

Walkmans
- "Just as the walkman changes the experience of the home, so the walkman changes the structuring of experience in public" pp.205
- It can be used for company, to create a safe and protective bubble, triggers memories and confidence.

Spatial Flows
- Novelty: Spatial exploration
- Digital mediation of play
e.g. Pokemon Go app

Our orientation through the device that we use, through our senses. We were a culture not comfortable with our own thoughts.

Before the major advancements in technology, people would still commute and not interact e.g. read a book/newspaper.

Ubiquity and surveillance are built together with a structural level.

We experience a form of freedom courtesy of technologies of everyday life. However, our freedoms are also limited by these technologies

FIFA as an example of a technology that enhances the true experience of watching football games.