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Thursday, July 16
- Deep Dive Workshops - Groups 1 & 2
- (Inter)Active Reading
- R2D3 - A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
- What is Code? by Tom Ford
- Nicky Case - Explorable Explanations
- Conversations New York Session 2 with Roopa Vasudevan
- Homework (for class on Tuesday 07/21, post by 1pm ET 07/20)
- READ – Ch.5 Technology & People (pp.115-131) from Twitter & Teargas by Zeynep Tufecki
- Notes: (Actually Page 147) in the PDF
- After that first level—the ecological effects—we must analyze what an individual technology does at a particular moment or in an interaction given the existing ecology.
- Digital technologies are especially complex because they have a huge range of potential affordances
- affordances—what its features allow or encourage you to do
- POST – In response to Friday’s “Conversations” session with Roopa, what points or comments resonated with you the most? Can you Identify any points made during Roopa’s talk that relate to what is discussed in the Twitter & Teargas chapter? More specifically, are there any aspects of the causal flow relationships between technology and society outlined by Zeynep Tufecki that connect to what Roopa shared with us? Your post should be in the range of 200-400 words. Please be prepared to discuss in class.
Technology is helping create new ways of organizing and communicating and is altering how we experience time and space.
Is there a Gandhi in Russia at this moment? And if there is, what is he accomplishing?
An internet society differs in significant ways from a pre-internet society, and this affects all members of that society, whether a person uses the internet or not.
WEEK 3 - TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
Key Topics
- Theoretical Frameworks for Technological Development
- Power & Politics
- Data & Ethics
Tuesday, July 21
- Discuss Homework Post - Roopa’s Talk + Tufecki’s Twitter & Teargas
- Activity - The CCC “Great Debate” Activity – Technological Determinism vs Social Constructivism
- Homework (for class on Thursday 07/23, no post required)
- REVIEW – Ch.5 The Future of Knowledge in the Public (pp. 134 – 152) from Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Noble
- DEEP DIVE – Groups 3 & 4