WEEK 10: Technology and Management

Clive ends the term describing how tech has dealt with management and control over the past years and addressed its modern issues that arises with it

WHAT IS THE CASE STUDY ABOUT THE BRIDGES OF LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK

it talks about Robert Moses, the master builder of roads, bridges and other public work. However, the bridges were too low for buses thus excluded other minor residents and creating an embodied political decision.

EXPLAIN THE CASE STUDY OF THE HOMELESS SPIKES OF LONDON

Defensive architecture were used to push homeless people away. The point was technology is a political tool used to cotrol behavior.

HOW DOES TECHNOLOGY CONTROL WORKERS?

1. Rationalization: orders strict repetition, efficiency, and punctuality while surveillance is present

2. Dehumanization: treated like a machine, system resource of continuous drive

KARL MARX THEORY ON ALIENATION?

A separation is available between workers and their managers. This is because managers provide order, instructions, and responsibilities, generally what to do. Since workers are responsible for completing the tasks, there is not much they can do excluding their given tasks and responsibilities thus creating a separation or alienation between workers and managers

4 TYPES OF ALIENATION BY ROBERT BLAUNER?

powerlessness, meaninglessness, isolation, self management

WHAT IS THE PANOPTICON ANALOGY?

force and violence is no longer the way. The gentle efficiency of surveillance is seen as better because being watched enables self-discipline e.g CCTV in factories, e.g Charlie Chaplin

WHAT IS ALIENATION?

when workers feel lonely, powerless, and seperated from their jobs

WHAT IS MICHEAL FOUCAULT’S VIEW ON POWER?

power is everywhere,especially within surveillance and people are becoming ‘docile bodies’

WHAT IS THE INFORMATION PANOPTICON?

A modern extension of Micheal Foucault’s idea that in the modern days, surveillance and information systems watch over people and flags bad, inconsistent behaviours

WHAT ARE SHOSHANA ZUBOFF’S 3 LAWS OF IT??

1. what can be automated will be automated

2. what can be infomated will be infomated

3. what can be used as surveillance/control will be used for surveillance and control

WHAT ARE THE 6rs OF ALGORITHMIC CONTROL

Direction: recommend and restrict

Evaluation: record and rate

Discipline: replace (under performers) and reward (high performers)