Games and Popular Culture
The mobile game we had to play for an hour.
What is Animal Crossing Pocket Camp?
Author of " Push for Gender Equality in Tech? Some Men Say It’s Gone Too Far".
Who is Bowles?
The citation style we use in this class.
What is APA?
The idea that society's progress is influenced by technology.
What is technological determinism?
The two authors of "How to Infrastructure".
Who is Star and Bowker?
Author of "Consumption and Naturalism in Animal Crossing".
Who is Bogost?
Author of "The Tech Industry’s Gender-Discrimination Problem".
Who is Kolhatkar?
Author of "Race After Technology:AbolitionistTools for the New Jim Code."
Who is Benjamin?
An outlook that highlights the relationship between people and technological systems?
What is sociotechnical perspective?
Examining the conventions and constraints of infrastructure and its ramifications.
What is infrastructural inversion?
Our guest lecturer for week 7.
Who is Mr. Rainforest Scully-Baker.
The lack of women in technology companies. The population of men overpower women.
What is the gender disparity in technology companies?
Google Search, The AppStore, and TurnItIn.
What are the three infrastructure choices for assignment 2.
Author of the "The Berlin key or how to do words with things".
Who is Latour?
This may be either spatial or temporal: infrastructure has reach beyond a single event or one-site practice.
What is the reach or scope?
Author of "Encoding-Decoding"
Who is Hall?
The name of the first electronic computer, in which the involvement of women as technicians and programmers was initially forgotten.
What is the ENIAC?
The initiator of the Manhattan Project, creator of the National Science Foundation.
Who is Vannabar Bush?
The interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information technologies that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts.
What is Social Informatics?
Infrastructure is sunk into, inside of, other structures, social arrangements and technologies.
What is embeddedness?
The spiritual emptiness and guilt that accompanies wealth in Animal Crossing and real life.
What is affluenza?
The circumstance in which men and women are not equal and that gender affects an individual's living experience. These differences arise from distinctions in biology, psychology, and cultural norms.
What is gender inequality?
An Englishman highly influential in the field of theoretical computer science. He built something to crack the Enigma Machine.
Who is Alan Turing.
Why are computers stupid?
Modified by scope and often by conflicting conventions, infrastructure takes on transparency by plugging into other infrastructures and tools in a standardized fashion.
What is embodiment of standards?