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Thomas Solley STSH 4980-01 Senior Thesis Costelloe-Kuehn 11/21/2014

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__CCP Meeting, notes, thoughts, and Outline November 21st__; Taken from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SxMlA3dvFroDVkhX-Zaytpl3UYmgEQjEWU4rP5fD_Yg/edit
 * its ok that I couldnt find a singular commuity against comm tech?
 * if have a magazine, the D.C. is talking thru the mag, this is an object that produces and represents the discourse of the community….
 * if can nail down the
 * let go of the idea of response…. have two communties, that have competing discourse, that may not directly be engaging each other…
 * can have discourses that are competing, with a philosophical dialectic that is happening between their discourse but not in ther community
 * journal of evolution and technology, used to be a transhumanist mag
 * h+ magazine, also a good source of transhumanist thought
 * use for transhumanist thought, last ten years, especially for communication technology,
 * time boundary of 7 years is great, based-off the creation of the iPhone in the US
 * use these two articles over the last 7 years, analyze these mags for discussion of communication technology, not necessarily positive or negative. Don’t develop a list of key-words, just skim through.
 * If find something that I am familiar-with, stop and flag it, that is a potential source
 * need a bounded group for the slow movement
 * use some of the articles we found from GS
 * build a citation network?
 * look at Haaretz article, and the GS articles, use the names of the authors to build a discourse community? and KSL?
 * can say the community exists of these authors and their citations?
 * might use some boundings of who is cited (obvious outliers)
 * build a netwroks that is made of the citations and authors, will give me names to search in GS for more works…. Would not go further than the first names of the citations… Will populate a network VERY quickly if I go beyond “first children”...
 * Is there a discussion between the ST and H+ over communications?
 * answer may be yes or no…

Better Outline; With these research questions, we don;t need to assume that a conflict is taking-place, we can see the separation between them… That separation, and understanding that separation, is valuable knowledge.
 * Is there a discussion between the ST and H+ over communications?
 * answer may be yes or no…
 * What does ST’s and H+ approach to communication technology tell us about the way they position “humanity” and (communication of some kind, narrow-down)...
 * If there is a disagreement, can it be reconciled?
 * If there is not, why would they not disagree? It seems there should be one… Someone, somewhere, is making two diametrically opposite assumptions
 * If they are not, where is it they are not?
 * this is valuable about “what it means to be human”...

Outline;

Intro;
 * “what does it mean to be human,” flow down the Questions into the Research question,
 * Is there a discussion between the ST and H+ over communications?
 * answer may be yes or no…
 * What does ST’s and H+ approach to communication technology tell us about the way they position “humanity” and (communication of some kind, narrow-down)...
 * If there is a disagreement, can it be reconciled?
 * If there is not, why would they not disagree? It seems there should be one… Someone, somewhere, is making two diametrically opposite assumptions
 * If they are not, where is it they are not?

[can flip the order of lit and methodology] Methodology;
 * State the groups
 * Define terms
 * Define groups/stakeholders
 * define BOUNDARIES (have to bound the communities), what makes the objects of research useful…
 * articles, (why only these? why specific ones?)
 * time-span,
 * characterization of these two groups... Or what may not make them groups?
 * [no arbitrary choosing]

Literature review; [Should be more than enough to populate the lit review] [May set the stage for reviewing the 2 groups in a grander scale of technology, but should hold both groups seperate from the knowledge I have about… “epistemic communties I am studying]
 * STS stuff only, is not an object of analysis -- this is literature that is founding the discussion of “humanity” and communication-tech-wrt-humanity…
 * In greek, “technae” means “skill”... Just an interesting factoid. Human “communication technology” and “human communication technae”... intersting pun.
 * Aristotle’s def of man,
 * Burke’s definition of man,
 * (Brandon may have better STS stuff)
 * Woodhouse may be good here… “Precautionary principles”...
 * Nicholas Carr, “is Google making us stupid”... Brandon may know some STS responses to Carr’s arguments...

[Typicallyt he “results” section, not useful for me to call it this but this piece is where I discuss my “results,” accurately characterizing each of the groups and their thoughts, as well as analyzing those thoughts…. Sould seperate the ‘characteristics’ from the ‘analysis’?]
 * e.g. H+ says these things, then sep. par. of “H+ says these things, which say/mean this for humanity, or for humanity and communciation technology”... Though in reality, this will be longer than a few paragraphs!

Body1:
 * Group 1 says these things about comm tech

Body2;
 * Group 2 says these things about comm. tech.

Body3;
 * Where both groups are colliding…

Body4;
 * Where they are not colliding….

Conclusion and Discussion;
 * Bring it home… Each of these will have some analysis, the final should be concluding… Do we need to reconsider humanity?
 * Do we need to create a different space for useful conversation on the subject?
 * What May be needed from the ST group to create a more "useful" movement?
 * What could be useful in the future to create a constructive space?‍