Hi all!
Quick check in … How is the research going? Feedback?
Next week’s homework is to have all the written components of your project finalized and a plan for the media component. Let’s discuss what media might be appropriate because how you choose to present your ideas will influence what kind of writing you will do.
Next week we will be doing some heavy lifting as we dig into cryptocurrencies, bitcoin, and blockchain but today I want to think a bit critically about the internet and how it is changing or as Cory Doctorow would say is getting worse – but saltier.
Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Moral + Code = Code Your Morals
Cory Doctorow, a media scholars and scifi author recently spoke at DEFCON 32. His forthcoming book: Enshittification: a nonfiction book about platform decay for Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Today’s progress: 764 words (69088 words total). At defcon he outlined for the audience some of his core ideas.
DEF CON 32 – Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation – Cory Doctorow
We didn’t get a chance to watch Danah Boyd last week:
Disinfo Discussions: The Fundamentals with danah boyd
And I’d also like to take a bit of time towards the end of class to work …
We can’t watch TV all day so this optional. Despite it being old, I found it to be eye opening and funny.
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