thoughts

for final proposal in class: the final will be a binder of memos, NSF length proposal (which is gamed and less science-ess), translation of memos to HASS and translation to NSF. Kim wants an archive of our work so that when things are dropped out of the proposal they aren't lost.

Enunciatory Communities: --Jenrose Fitzgerald has a national event that causes local impacts, I'm dealing with a global phenomenon that has several levels of impacts from local to state to national to global. --not about identity but rather about figuring out...

What are the questions that I can include from the outset that position me to think about prescriptions, better design, better systems, better institutions without hindering my ability to keep my senses open to alternative practices that run outside of these original questions?

Caution: comprehensive in discussion of literature as a backdrop for your study rather than a way of promoting your intelligence. Must try not to go too high (e.g. STS too big, anthropology of social movements more manageable)

Material Culture? [Journal of Material Culture?] --essay in list from Miller.

The big question [via gareth]: Am I really concerned about the use of technology as a remediation mechanism for a social problem? Camoflauged

symbolic interaction crowd as sociology as qualitatively rigorous... Theoretical sensitivity...

How do I conceptualize social structure (bourdieu, marx, giddens???)

Althussair and multiple determinations (marx redux)

Verbing of objects/static to include time change and less essentialism.

Willoughby, critique of appropriate technology, as a framework of how to critique in order to build back up...