[Xmca-l] Re: [External] Re: AI and Activity Theory

Tue Apr 13 12:31:52 PDT 2021

Congratulations and best wishes

Anne-Nelly
Perret-Clermont
(Switzerland)

Le 13 avr. 2021 à 21:18, Helena Worthen <helenaworthen@gmail.com> a écrit :

 Mike, I can’t say enough to thank you for your work in reading, writing, publishing, popularizing, cricticizing, provoking, bridging, especially moderating — and staying up to date with all the technologies that have supported this activity. Happy birthday and I hope you enjoy many more in full health and comfort.

Helena

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On Apr 13, 2021, at 11:55 AM, Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu<mailto:boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>> wrote:

Happy Birthday Professor Cole!
Thank-you for all you imparted to your peers and to succeeding generations!
Kindest regards,
Robert Lake  Ed.D.
Professor of Social Foundations/Curriculum Studies
Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 2:27 PM mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu<mailto:mcole@ucsd.edu>> wrote:
Thanks Bella.
My son reminded me that 83 is a prime number, and a friend informed me that I
have been keeping on for 30,316 days.

Taking it a day at a time.

Shalom in every sense of the word.
mike

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:19 AM Bella Kotik-Friedgut <bella.kotik@gmail.com<mailto:bella.kotik@gmail.com>> wrote:
Happy birthday dear Mike! Active longevity!
Sincerely yours Bella Kotik-Friedgut

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 6:58 PM mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu<mailto:mcole@ucsd.edu>> wrote:
Thanks, Helena!
We are all feel the value of free work being sucked up byte by byte.
The top is 100% timely.
mike

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 1:31 PM Worthen, Helena Harlow <hworthen@illinois.edu<mailto:hworthen@illinois.edu>> wrote:
For various reasons I’ve been thinking about the uses of CHAT.  Here is a book that is not getting much publicity for some reason, despite the flood of sudden consciousness about the power of AI.  The authors (Bonnie Nardi is an XCMA participant from way back) lay out the analytic framework with a swift trip through Activity Theory:

I did a review of it for the Journal of Labor and Society a few years ago — wow, 2018!

BOOK REVIEW
Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism.  Ekbia, Hamid R.,  Nardi, Bonnie A., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2017. 266 pp., plus index, references, notes (total 280). $35.00

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An important point that they make is that AI is not just about job replacement, but the value of the free work that is swept up by algorithms to form capital.

Worthen, Helena Harlow
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