Thesis+Presentation+Outline+and+Notes,+December+8

Thomas Solley STSH 4980-01 Senior Thesis Costelloe-Kuehn 12/8/2014 12/9/2014

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__ Thesis Presentation and Notes December 8th __ Whelp this will be fun. Presentation is due for today, let's see how well we can do this...

Important things to cover (outline); - Research Questions - Relevant concepts from Literature Review - Methodology - Empirical data, analysis, lessons learned

See  for my actual Slides...

Outline; 0) Title Slide [1 slide] 1) Abstract (use as introduction) [1 slide] 2) Research Questions [1-2 slides, 1 ideally] 3) Concepts from Literature Review (which concepts?) [1 for Overview, then per concept?] --> ? --> ? --> ? 4) Methodology [? slides] --> 2 previous edits --> Restrict to the 2 discourse comunities --> Choose NOT to discuss the "planes of imminence", nor on Facebook, nor on Social Networks (what I found with those was that the discussion were outside the points I was looking-at). 5) Preliminary Findings --> Body 1, H+ views on smartphones and humanity (humanity is more than the physical body and is not attached to organic limitations)(Technology can be used to make us "better than well") --> Body 2, Slow-Tech views on smartphones and humanity (physical proximity is central to human-discourse and interpersonal communication)(Fundamental loss of value in conversion of data to the digital realm)(Technology speeds us up, which has caused health problems) --> Body 3, Convergences (Both see communications technologies as central to the industrial, modern life) --> Body 4, Divergences (H+ uses tech as examples without depth, ST uses tech in a fuller extent -- media reversal.)(ST wants to pull-back from the business of modern industry and add reflection, without necessarily removing all communications technologies)(H+ does not directly address smartphones or comm. tech)

6) Conclusion -> Recommended disocurse community (shared space, international institute to bring people together)

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Stuff from yesterday;

Gotta make some changes still... Such as explaining some of the history of the ST movement, it is not actually as /;new:/ as I claimed in my presentation yesterday...