MCOM 100 -
Interfaces
TWO – THE
DESKTOP
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Gothic cathedrals
Desktop
metaphor (private office space)
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Why the desktop?
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Jobs and Macintosh mass production of the desktop
Metaphor
(revisited)
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The act of giving a name that belongs to something else
Simulation
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A model that works – is not like, but “is”
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Organized space implies a value system and community
PC/Mac =
Modernism/Postmodernism: Sherry Turkle “A Tale of Two Aesthetics”
“The dynamic, layered display
gives me the comforting sense that I write in conversation with my computer”
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Computational seduction/conversations with computers
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Projection of self into machines
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Hackers, Hobbyists, and Users
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Macintosh
Macintosh
(postmodern) and IBM/DOS (modern)
THREE –
WINDOWS
What are
windows good for?
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Mode switching
Magic Lens
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Google’s Newsmap
Frames
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window within a window
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adaptation and expatiation
o
The frame is an expatiation
Browser
(metaform)
New media
journalism = metaform