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You know that book I wrote -- Pathology and Technology: Killer Apps and Sick Users? I'll be talking about it as part of the inaugural CBSHS Dean's Lecture Series: https://calendar.clemson.edu/event/deans_lecture_series_-_travers_scott#.XEilas83nOQ
Friday, March 29 at 11:00am to 12:00pm Cheezem Education Center, OLLI at Clemson 100 Thomas Green Boulevard
I've stared a page on Vimeo for my short films. Only two up right now due to free account upload limits: The sinister go-go dance party "Get Out Get Out" and "Goat," a fanvid for Devo's "Here to Go" with dancing devils. More to come! https://vimeo.com/dtraversscott
15 Ways to Leave Your Lover: Breaking Up with Apple After 30 Years
I'm about to turn 50. Although I have used non-Apple hardware and software over the years, I have never chosen to spend my own money on non-Apple hardware, ever, since I first used Apple computers in 1988, in college. I currently use a MacBook Air and iPhone SE and have several old Macs, ranging from a sunflower-design iMac G4 to a first-gen iPad to a clamshell iBook that I still get use from. I regret not buying a Cube. I have loved Apple long and hard for 30 years. More: https://dtraversscott.blogspot.com/2018/11/15-ways-to-leave-your-lover-breaking-up.html
Headphones are seen to diminish our perceptual awareness and leave us vulnerable to dangers. Here are some examples from horror films, with notions on how narratives of bad users deploy gender and racial stereotypes.
Although my Friday NCA presentation on lighting diffusion is not from Pathology and Technology, it will address similar themes of technology and health. @PeterLangGroup @PeterLangUSA @nca @commhistory …
NCA and SLC folks! I'll be presenting on historic instruction for lighting (yes, how to use electric lights) Fri 19:30 SLC Hilton Alpine East 2nd floor @NatComm
Speaking at Oxford Thursday
Let's have a book talk! Come to the Oxford Internet Institute Thurs at 16:00 for a chat on Pathology & Technology: Killer Apps and Sick Users http://bit.ly/2Og1BD6 @oii @PeterLangOxford @PeterLangUSA @PeterLangGroup
Here's an interview I did a few years ago for Clemson TV with then-student Drew Parkes about my research on technology and disease.
Here’s a photoset of news headlines going waaaaaay back about how electric communication technologies can hurt you https://flic.kr/s/aHsmhqN5dW
Possessed
I talk in my book about Possessed (1947), a Joan Crawford film that demonstrates feminization and disease, and the transition from neurasthenia to schizophrenia. Photos and video clips: https://www.flickr.com/gp/drscottclemson/Dkzd9M
Educator and author D. Travers Scott posting on technology, culture, gender, sexuality, health, history and 1980s New Wave synthpop.
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News headlines about technology and disease, trailer for my book Pathology and technology: Killer Apps and Sick Users (Peter Lang).
COMM 3070
Week 1 Prompt 2: Technology, as defined by Auyang in our class reading, is the scientific capacity to produce. Modern technology, such as the train captured in the video above, comes from the Greek concept of téchnē by developing reasoning and knowledge into science. The need for fast travel was necessary in growing Germany, and therefore trains resulted from a need to travel quickly and in a cost-effecive manner from one place to another. McLelland would point out that the scientific knowledge of physics was necessary to create the train and to insure that the train remains on its tracks and go certain speeds. Auyang’s technology exists not only in high-tech tools such as the train, but also in knowledge, understanding, and the organization for social institutions, as all of these result in an increased capacity to produce.
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Post a photo, video or audio file that you recorded here in Germany of a communicative act or artifact and describe in what ways it is can be understood from a transmission model of communication, and in what ways it can be understood by using a ritual model.
“Attending mass, is a situation in which nothing new is learned but in which a particular view of the world is portrayed and confirmed.” – James Carey
Captured above is the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Stadtkirche Ludwigsburg. In the image, there are people sitting outside the church with a board behind them advertising the church’s beliefs along with prayer beads pinned to the board. Using a simplistic board, Protestant Community Church is utilizing both transmission and ritual communication. On the board, there was a link for their website that presents the values and beliefs of the church to the community. Listed on the site was a consistent meeting time at 11 AM to symbolically show and participate in the church’s beliefs. By adding the prayer beads to the board, the church’s beliefs are represented and symbolically expressed. The beads symbolize the act of praying to the god that they believe in. By participating in rituals, congregation further strengthens the church and validates its beliefs. These small actions drive this church and help it efficiently communicate to the public.
Week 1 - Prompt 1
Annually, German towns hold a spring festival known as Frühlingsfest where it is customary to wear traditional german clothing like lederhosen and dirndl dresses (pictured above). Wearing these exemplify both transmission and ritualistic styles of communication.
By wearing a dirndl (or lederhosen) a person communicates that they are attending the annual spring festival. A clear message is received about where this person is, or will be, though this concept could be quite obvious to the person receiving this message as they might also be at the festival. This illustrates transmission style communication; a message is received in a linear form, from sender to receiver.
In a ritualistic sense, wearing the dirndl expresses the desire to participate in a community’s tradition. The cultures’s reality is built by the large number of people that wear the dresses and create an atmosphere of celebration. It expresses that they are proud of their culture, want to contribute to a cheery mood, and want to be a part of the tradition.
COMM 3070 Week 1
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When we arrived in Stuttgart this week we got to experience Frülingsfest, known in English as Springfest. Springfest is the spring version of Oktoberfest, so as one can imagine, it is fair rides, food, and beer. In concordance with German culture, the men wear lederhosen and the women wear dirndls. These are traditional German outfits that bear a strong cultural and traditional semblance.
In Dr. Scott’s class, we spoke about the transmission and ritual model of communication. Transmission is as simple as it seems: the sender sends a message to the receiver. Ritual is a little more complicated, though, because instead of explicitly communicating a particular message, it is a more symbolic, understood way of communicating. What I found to be true about these through the wearing of the traditional German garments is that while through transmission model, it simply says that the person is wearing a dirndl or lederhosen, in ritual, it explains heritage, tradition, and cultural norms. While they are not explicitly said, it is implicitly implied through the wearing of these garments.
Prompt 1: Post a photo, video or audio file that you recorded here in Germany of a communicative act or artifact and describe in what ways it is can be understood from a transmission model of communication, and in what ways it can be understood by using a ritual model.
At Frülingsfest, and in Germany as a whole, many people embrace the local view that “Bier ist gesund” – that beer is healthy and there are positive effects of drinking it. Beyond these effects, holding a pint of beer has the power of communication.
The transmission model of communication is straightforward communication: you send a message through a channel and it is received by someone else. When someone is holding a beer at the festival, or anywhere for that matter, they are sending a message to all who surround them. The simple message that “I am drinking beer” is received by anyone who sees it in my hand.
The Ritual Model sees “communication [as] a symbolic process where reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed”. Communication under the ritual model seeks to “represent shared beliefs” (Powerpoint, 4). Holding a beer at the spring festival shows all others that you are there to celebrate German heritage, the coming of spring, and all other values the festival represents. You are making a statement that is different than just “I am drinking beer”; you are sharing in their beliefs and meshing with their culture.
