Living Information Readings Notes
Weaving family connections on and offline
The turn to networked individualism (2018)
Family ties provide companionship and social support
Important to understand because older adults often experience social
loneliness and physicall isolation
This is relation to Information and communication technologies (ICTs)
Previous findings of low ICT use amongst older adults was usually a cohort
effect (group of ppl who had common characteristics such as age, location or
generation) than an effect of old age
ICTs are often routinely used by older adults who have already used these
technologies when they were younger
Older adults have benefited from the use of ICTs with family members
ICTs allowed them to connect with their own generation
It also allowed them to connect with younger generations
As family members and friends have spread out geographically, ICTS help
their ties to persist
It has empowered them to remain at the center of their own multiple
networks even when mobility becomes limited
Older adult (similarly to younger adults) use ICT's to maintain existing ties, rather
than to forge new ones
Micro communications provide opportunity for brief exchange
Creates a sense of connectedness in the lives of older adults
Although ICTs help keep in touch, older adults still prefer spending time in person
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, Bentham -Panopticon (1787)
Type of institutional building and a system of control
Allows all prisoners to be observed by a single security guard
The inmates cannot tell wether or not they are being watched
The inmates cannot know wether they are being watched
they are motivated to act as though they are being watched at all times
thus effectively compeled to regulate their own behaviour
creates a sense of 'invisible omnipresence'
great means of 'extracting labour'
The architecture
consists of a rotunda
an inspection house: from where the manager or staff can watch inmates
without being seen
Bentham's plans
considered this plan to be applicable to hospitals, schools, sanatorium,
asylums
he spent most of his time, however, developing it for prisons
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Forster- The Machine Stops (1909)
Plot summary
Human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the earth
People live underground, in a standard room
The machine
meets all the needs, bodily or spiritual of the people, all goes through it too
Travel is unpopular and unecessary
Weaving family connections on and offline
The turn to networked individualism (2018)
Family ties provide companionship and social support
Important to understand because older adults often experience social
loneliness and physicall isolation
This is relation to Information and communication technologies (ICTs)
Previous findings of low ICT use amongst older adults was usually a cohort
effect (group of ppl who had common characteristics such as age, location or
generation) than an effect of old age
ICTs are often routinely used by older adults who have already used these
technologies when they were younger
Older adults have benefited from the use of ICTs with family members
ICTs allowed them to connect with their own generation
It also allowed them to connect with younger generations
As family members and friends have spread out geographically, ICTS help
their ties to persist
It has empowered them to remain at the center of their own multiple
networks even when mobility becomes limited
Older adult (similarly to younger adults) use ICT's to maintain existing ties, rather
than to forge new ones
Micro communications provide opportunity for brief exchange
Creates a sense of connectedness in the lives of older adults
Although ICTs help keep in touch, older adults still prefer spending time in person
____________________________________
, Bentham -Panopticon (1787)
Type of institutional building and a system of control
Allows all prisoners to be observed by a single security guard
The inmates cannot tell wether or not they are being watched
The inmates cannot know wether they are being watched
they are motivated to act as though they are being watched at all times
thus effectively compeled to regulate their own behaviour
creates a sense of 'invisible omnipresence'
great means of 'extracting labour'
The architecture
consists of a rotunda
an inspection house: from where the manager or staff can watch inmates
without being seen
Bentham's plans
considered this plan to be applicable to hospitals, schools, sanatorium,
asylums
he spent most of his time, however, developing it for prisons
_____________________________________________________
Forster- The Machine Stops (1909)
Plot summary
Human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the earth
People live underground, in a standard room
The machine
meets all the needs, bodily or spiritual of the people, all goes through it too
Travel is unpopular and unecessary
