parasite group work (first remote class)

First Remote Class plan

• Discussion of readings (40min)
  • Worlding; what makes a world?
    • Spatial and temporal structuring.
    • Embodiment and situation: how does the user relate to this structure?
    • What knowledge is created about the world (/what kind of world is this?)
  • Hypertexts
    • Everything is a “text”; it’s just a question of how you put them together.
      • e.g.
        • Appropriation, collection, curation (e.g. “Carrier Bag”)
          • The user’s identity is part of this process.
        • “Hijacking” (e.g. nCage)
        • Portals and connections (e.g “The Tower of Babylon”)
        • “Remaking your space”, taking power away from the architect
  • Information and infinity (Borges)
    • Proposition: culture and knowledge is about making new patterns + forms, not new content.
      
      
• Prototyping (1hr 30min total)
  • Discuss (30min)
    • Our affordances… Recap of skills we have learned!
    • Make a list of what we can do to the web.
      • Cross-ref with Agnes’ list
    • Look at some examples of extension projects.
      • Remember: Concept and context are important for this one. What do you want to do to your host?
        • Could think of a verb: Break-down? Re-imagine? Reveal? Reflect? Subvert?
      • Bylines
        • Code
      • TrackMeNot
      • nCage
      • Textbook
      • Make Trump’s Tweets Eight Again
      • Clippy
      • Jailbreak the Patriarchy
    • Understand the workflow
      • Concept => Paper Prototype => Wireframe =>
      • (=> means user test! feedback! Iterate!)
  • Breakout Groups (40min)
    • Jacey, Joy, Tia Rachael, Erin, Elias
    • Avni, Xianyu, Jonna
    • Claire, Lily, Sophia
    • Siran, Evanna, Vivian
      • Discuss your ideas together: what will you do with your host site?
      • Look at one of your host sites together. Break it down and write down the important structural components and how you want to manipulate them. If there’s time, work out code methods together. (Gary will visit each group).
        • e.g. All these banner ads have the class name “header-image” under the div with id “banner”, you could use JQuery to manipulate those with $('#banner .header-image').css({ … }).
          
          
  • Presentations (20min)
    • 4min each, present:
      • Your host sites and your main idea.
      • An overview of your detailed breakdown of one host site and what you found.