Category: Group 5

Tuesday, January 27:

• 4 hats in class
• 1 pair of crutches
• 1 person wearing flip flops (high temperature: 46 degrees)
• 3 people wearing glasses, unknown number wearing contacts
• still only 3 girls in class
• 9 shirts with collars
• ~24 minutes spent building panopticon

Thursday, January 29:

• 2 patagonia fleeces
• 6 people wearing glasses, presumably lower number of people wearing contacts
• 10 drinks on tables
• Time of Arrivals:
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Tuesday:

• 13 laptops out, 10 of which were open
• 9 of these were Apple
• 2 tablets out: 1 apple, 1 windows
• 15 people had paper notebooks
• 2 had both a laptop and paper notebook
• 1 person had nothing out at all

Thursday:

• 19 laptops out, all open
• 14 of these were Apple
• 3 tablets out: 2 apple, 1 windows
• 11 people had paper notebooks
• 5 people had both a laptop and paper notebook
• 0 people had nothing out

Tuesday (1/27)

10 pairs of blue jeans

3 hats

5 sunglasses

2 crutches

2 coffee cups

2 fraternity shirts

2 econ pens

1 Ticonderoga pencil

13 computers being used

-6 apple computers

-1 tablet

7 green markings on board

4 blue markings on board

18 questions asked by Dr. Sample

7 Nike shoes

 

Thursday (1/29)

25 questions asked my Dr. Sample

18 Iphones

8 androids

4 other phones

5 drinks on tables

26 computers being used

1 hat

4 Davidson shirts

1 fraternity shirt

Tuesday (1/27):

• Words written on the board by Dr. Sample: Dataveillance, surveillance, and superpanopticon (this word was underlined)
• 18 comments written on the board by students, responding to Foucault’s statement, “Visibility is a trap”
• First interactive class exercise and first time Dr. Sample has recorded us
• 3 people wearing hats to class
• Class finished at 2:52PM

Thursday (1/29)

• Words written on the board by Dr. Sample: Inscribe, writing (written underneath inscribe), represent, and depict (written underneath represent)
• No comments written on board by students
• First YouTube video shown in class
• In preparation for the quantified self assignment, it looks like there are 18 IOS devices, 8 Androids, and 4 Others
• Ended class on the idea that the act of observation changes the object being observed

General observation from both days:

With some exceptions, it seems as though the class organizes its seating arrangement by gender (all 3 girls at one table), fraternity, athletic organization, and college year.

DIG 210- Data Collection: Distribution of Technology
Tuesday:
5 Windows Computers
7 Mac Computers
1 Windows Tablet
2 Mac Tablets

Thursday:
(Statistics Obtained Prior to Use of Lab Computers)
5 Windows Computers
1 Windows Tablet
2 Mac Tablets
12 Mac Computers

In addition to this, as we learned in class, we have 18 iPhone users (iPhone 5 or later), 8 Android users, and 4 people who use a different type of mobile device.