stsmixtures 8-Oct-2009

Lucy Suchman speaking on ‘Robot Biographies’ from York University, Toronto at the final STS Mixtures on 7/8 October. {7:00am on 8th October in Melbourne}

WebStream
Connect to the stream via http://www.jvcs.ja.net/s/893kowcw. The webstream will only become active half an hour before the conference is due to start. Instructions [PDF] for the webstream to watch Lucy Suchman on 7/8 October

Stream & Presentation via Media Site Viewer

Having more successful viewing opening the stream in Windows Media Player directly http://tinyurl.com/yc5u7yo

PowerPoint
PowerPoint slides [PPT] for Lucy Suchman’s video conference seminar

Presentation via http://connect.yorku.ca/r73553220/ Adobe Connect Pro.

Paper
Lucy Suchman & Claudia Castañeda Robot Visions [PDF]

Twitter
There is opportunity for those on the web stream to ask questions for Lucy Suchman live via Twitter
@stsmixtures [Twitter]
search?q=stsmixtures [TweetGrid]

@ingermewburn Robots reproduce ‘hetero normative notions of gender’. For example most people who have a ‘roomba’ floor cleaner give it a female name.

STS Mixtures Conference

A good collaboration of videoconferencing, streamed video and Twitter tonight;

We are delighted to confirm that Helen Verran, Associate Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at University of Melbourne, will be speaking at the first video conference seminar at 10:00 UTC (11:00 London BST | 20:00 Melbourne EDT | 6:00 New York EDT), on Friday 8th May 2009.
She will be speaking on Performing People-Place: Story-Screens in the Teaching from Country Initiative.
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Due to demand, STS Mixtures now has a Twitter service, where you can post your questions live on 8 May. [@stsmixtures]

More information via STS Mixtures Video conferences