FSSn4500 Digital Culture/Clutter: Life and Death on the Net

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2019
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0/0/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli (přednášející), PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D. (zástupce)
PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D. (pomocník)
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PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D.
Kontaktní osoba: PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D.
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Tangibility is being replaced by virtuality. Social media supplant the water cooler. MOOCs challenge the classroom. This course is a colorful mélange of ideas, debates, inventions and the stories of the visionaries and entrepreneurs who created -- and critique -- the digital world – as we know it today. This is an introductory survey course. It fits into early, foundational stage learning in various disciplines (such as Social Science; Arts & Culture; Business & Management; Communication; Computer Science; Education; Humanities; Law) and the informal studies of lifelong learners. No previous knowledge is required. However, life in the 21st century is assumed.
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Master the concepts underlying digital and networked realities. Understand, intelligently discuss, and predict digital life. Gain familiarity with leading thinkers and their thoughts in the field. Use digital and collaborative tools in this quest. Create collaborative concept maps of the information age. Based on your newly gained knowledge, form your own opinions about whether and how much Privacy, Center, Distance, Time and Death, the Book and the Classroom are dying. Is the Net fulfilling its promise?
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  • Topic 1: Death of Privacy? Introduction to the course Explanation of the Ligilo semantic mapping assignment ● Frontiers of the war on privacy: legislation, litigation, government, business ● Privacy and its violation as commercial foundation for much of digital life ● The pros and cons of safekeeping privacy ● Privacy as a contextual concept ● Legal and normative changes in the concept of privacy ● Privacy / transparency conflicts ● Privacy / intimacy: contradictory or complementary? ● Privacy and the “right to be forgotten” Key thinkers: danah boyd, Scott McNealy, Evgeny Morozov, Helen Nissenbaum, Bruce Schneier Key terms: The right to be forgotten, Platform for Privacy Preferences, Cookies, Access Logs, IoT Key texts: Glenn Greenwald, "Why Privacy Matters", TED talk, 2014 https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters Topic 2: Death of Center, Time and Distance? ● In a centerless world, how is order maintained? What are the alternatives? ● How did a military-academic invention (the web) rise against its creators? ● Can parenthood be performed at a distance? Romance? Learning? Management? ● Smart cities ● Can synchronicity and asynchronicity range along a continuum or even coexist? ● What happened to the traditional distinction between leisure and work? ● The slow-internet movement and the “Long Now” – should we slow down? ● Short vs. long term – mimicking what we thought was the organizing principle of reaction speed. ● Life Loggers and the Quantified Self – new meanings for time or narcissism? Key thinkers: Tim Berners-Lee, Vannevar Bush, Cesar Hidalgo, Lawrence Lessig, Ted Nelson, Eric Raymond, Clay Shirky, David Weinberger, Jonathan Zittrain, Chris Anderson, Marshall McLuhan, Ray Oldenburg, Barry Wellman, Frances Cairncross, Aharon Kellerman, John Kelly Key terms: Memex, Route Switching, Packet Switching,New Economy, Net Neutrality, Code, Cathedral and Bazaar, Linearity, Hypertext, Disintermediation, Reintermediation, The Cloud, Peer-to-peer, Wisdom of Crowds, Crowdsourcingת Cyber-Space, co-working, Sharing Economy, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Globalization, localization, The Third Place, Virtual visitation, Voice Over IP( VOIP) Key texts: 1. Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think”; Atlantic Monthly; July 1945. 2. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | full movie (2014) https://youtu.be/9vz06QO3UkQ Topic 3: Death of Conversation? ● What new kinds of discourse and conversation were created? Preaching, consulting, sharing and multi-channel, multi-temporal, simultaneous, durational… ● Does the proverb “better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother” still hold true? ● How do different formats and platforms contribute to or shape conversation? ● What is the impact of online conversation on friendships and social institutions such as the family? ● Similarities and differences between conversing and listening: how has the online world affected them? ● How is shame expressed and enforced in the online world: if everybody is taking selfies and privacy is challenged, should we ever feel embarrassed? ● How does the option of maintaining an active but anonymous online presence foster disinhibition? ● What happens to introverts and extroverts in an environment where “inside” and “outside” are constantly morphing? ● How to measure silence? On waiting and response time. Key thinkers: Sherry Turkle, Robert Putnam, Susan Herring, Deborah Tannen, Brenda Danet, Thom Erickson, Eli Pariserתת Robert Kraut, Nancy Baym, John Suler, Azy Barak, Paul Resnick, Limor Shifman Key terms: Interactivity, synchronicity, asynchronicity. Persistent conversation, Filter Bubblesת Introversion, trolling, “the Internet Paradox”, memes Key texts: 1. Dunbar's Number: Why We Can't Have More Than 150 Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppLFce5uZ3I 2. A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film https://vimeo.com/103554797 **Mid-term quiz** Topic 4: Death of Classroom? ● Digital natives and immigrants – the digital gap. How is the adult world dealing with the "kids"? ● Generations as identity components (Baby Boomers, Generation X/Y, Millennials) ● What is the “flipped classroom” and what else gets upended once learning moves to the net? ● Is education changing and how does online education restructure knowledge? Key thinkers: Nicholas Negroponte, Pamela McCorduck, Chris Anderson, Marc Prensky, Douglas Coupland, danah boyd, Sherry Turkle, Clayton Christensen, Sugata Mitra Key terms: Being Digital, Makers, maker-faires, Disrupting Education, Hole in the Wall Key texts: 1. Mitra, Sugata (2007) TED Talk about “Hole in the Wall” https://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves?utm_source=tedcomshare&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tedspread 2. The Hole in the Wall Education Project http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/ 3. “I Just Sued the School System” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTTojTija8 4. Ken Robinson TED talkhttps://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity/transcript Topic 5: Death of Book and Tangibility? ● Is the printed and bound book here to stay, or will bits replace atoms in the publishing sphere? ● Who is responsible for storage, packaging and marketing? Who are gatekeepers of the book? ● Remember how we used to read linearly and from end to end? Do we still do it? How do the alternatives compare? ● The transition from the visual to other modalities: audiobooks, podcasts, home assistants ● How do digital books reshape institutions such as books, religion, schools, bookstores and libraries? ● How has the professional standing of authors and the book as artifact changed? What is the status of decoration and coloring books and YouTube-based books vs. the e-book? ● “From bits to atoms" in communication, commerce and culture? ● How do money and commerce, communities and identity change when we cease to use coins and notes? ● What will be the impact of virtual and augmented on the physical world? Key thinkers: Elizabeth Eisenstein, Neil Postman, Howard Innis, David Weinberger, Stevan Harnad, Steve Campi, Marshal McLuhan Key terms: Digital Humanities, Cool and warm media, “medium is the message”, OCR, NGrams, Media Richness, hypertext, audiobook, podcast, blogging and microblogging Key texts: 1. Hayles, Katherine N. “How We Read.” In How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. http://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content2/uploads/Hayles-HWT.pdf 2. Postman, Orwell and Huxley comic http://www.prosebeforehos.com/image-of-the-day/08/24/huxley-vs-orwell-infinite-distraction-or-government-oppression/ Topic 6: Death of Choice? ● Where do we encounter algorithms? ● How are everyday domains reshaped by algorithms? ● What are the consequences of big data in everyday and civic life? ● What are clickbaits and how does the information overload affect our relation to the truth? ● What will it be like to be immersed in the Internet of Things (IoT)? ● What research methods will we give up on, and what are the emerging and novel ways of knowing? Key thinkers: Richard Rogers, Erez Aiden, Michael Aiden, Kenneth Cukierת Jaron Lanier, Heidi Campbell, Charles Ess, Kevin Kelly, Daniel Dennett, Clifford Pickover, Margaret Leviת Yuval Noah Harrari, Robin Dunbar Key terms: Google analytics, hits, sessions, uniques, clickstream, NGrams, Self-quantification, Socioscope, Big Data, Culturomicsת Deus Ex Machina, Data/Information religion, Shamanism and Virtual Communities, Sacred Texts and Digital preservation Key texts: 1. http://www.danah.org/papers/2012/BigData-ICS-Draft.pdf 2. The Machine that Changed the World - Episode 4 - The Thinking Machine https://youtu.be/enWWlx7-t0k Topic 7: Death of Promise? ● Is the net a Utopia or a Dystopia? ● Does the net instantiate freedom of speech or is it the locus of new forms of censorship? Has the playground changed, or have the rules changed as well? ● Was net neutrality a false promise, or is it here to stay? ● The net is home to much leaking and whistleblowing. Will it be allowed to remain this way? Can secrets still be kept? ● To what extent is online life an extension of 1960s flower generation values? Will it foster more freedom and equality? ● New world order? How do governments, religious organizations, educational systems and banks react to changes? Key Thinkers: JP Barlow, S. Levine, D. Searls, Y. Benkler, F. Turner, B. Peters Key Texts: 1. Barlow, John Perry (1996) Net Declaration of Independence https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence 2. Lanier, J. "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism”: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html Topic 8: Death of Death and Memory? ● Is death dead? ● Online mourning: What are the new patterns of mourning and commemoration? ● What is the promise of the singularity movement and why do some people think that they could live forever? ● What are the implications of trans- and post-humanism? ● Digital death and online afterlife services ● What happens to the concept of self and identity in a world that denies the right and the ability to forget? ● How does interpersonal communication change in a world where everything is stored, saved and accessible to us? ● How does the “right to be forgotten” align with the need to remember and cultural norms regarding knowledge? ● How do new capabilities such as "prediction" integrate in a world where everything is registered and available in a database? ● What is the significance of technology when it comes to mediating memory? Course summary Key thinkers: Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Ray Kurzweil, Cary Wolfe, Roger Shankת Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Aaron Swartz, Nicholas Carr, Evgeny Morozov Key terms: Singularity, trans-humanism, post-humanism, brain uploading, Digital death, online-mourning, cyborgsת Digital determinism, transparency, Wikileaks, Whistleblowers Key texts:
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