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=== Week 1: Introduction === | === Week 1: Introduction === | ||
− | * | + | * Real time lecture: May 20th, 9:30 - 11:30 Pacific/12:30 - 2:30 Eastern on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892 |
− | + | * Welcome everyone! We’re so thrilled to be starting the first LFP Crash Course on Systems and Policies. This week, we’ll be getting acquainted with the course, including curriculum, technology, goals, and each other. | |
− | * Welcome everyone! We’re so thrilled to be starting the first LFP Crash Course on Systems and Policies. This week, we’ll be getting acquainted with the course, including curriculum, technology, goals, and each other. | + | TBD on |
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==== Course overview ==== | ==== Course overview ==== | ||
+ | ===== Course themes ===== | ||
+ | * WE ARE STILL IN A PANDEMIC (plus other kinds of social and economic collapse) | ||
+ | * Systems and policies = vendors, library policies, library computer environments, figuring out the data we're collecting, how to collect less of it, how to secure it, who it gets shared with, and who is impacted if we don't safeguard privacy. | ||
+ | * Surveillance capitalism: politics, ideology, and money behind technologies | ||
+ | * Privacy and intellectual freedom with a justice-based approach, not just a rights-based approach | ||
+ | * Privacy strategies and tools with a harm reduction lens | ||
+ | * Individual vs collective action | ||
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+ | ===== LFP background ===== | ||
+ | * Alison intro | ||
+ | * Howard intro | ||
+ | * Brief LFP history | ||
+ | * How the Crash Courses came to be | ||
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===== Syllabus and weekly layout ===== | ===== Syllabus and weekly layout ===== | ||
− | * | + | * Eight weeks, roughly five hours a week |
* Weekly commitments: lecture, discussion, readings, tasks. | * Weekly commitments: lecture, discussion, readings, tasks. | ||
* [https://libraryfreedom.wiki/html/public_html/index.php/Main_Page/Crash_Courses/Systems_and_Policies#Schedule_overview Schedule overview] | * [https://libraryfreedom.wiki/html/public_html/index.php/Main_Page/Crash_Courses/Systems_and_Policies#Schedule_overview Schedule overview] | ||
− | * Weekly meetings are | + | * Weekly meetings are one hour of lecture, one hour of discussion, so please be ready to participate each week! |
− | * Tasks are things for you to complete every week | + | * Tasks are things for you to complete every week. If you have to miss some, that is fine! They're meant to help you engage more deeply in this course. |
* Let Alison know if you need to be absent from one of the real-time lectures, or if you need to miss a whole week for any reason. | * Let Alison know if you need to be absent from one of the real-time lectures, or if you need to miss a whole week for any reason. | ||
− | * Review | + | * Review [https://libraryfreedom.wiki/html/public_html/index.php/LFI_Course_Materials/Code_of_Conduct code of conduct]. |
===== Class technology ===== | ===== Class technology ===== | ||
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Some examples of these projects can be found on the [https://libraryfreedom.org/resources/ LFP website]. | Some examples of these projects can be found on the [https://libraryfreedom.org/resources/ LFP website]. | ||
+ | ==== This week only! ==== | ||
===== Readings ===== | ===== Readings ===== | ||
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− | + | We'll begin by getting into some background about what's going on and how we got here. Our focus this week will be on a range of readings...a little bit of the history and politics of Big Data and government surveillance, as well as some of the historical ideas about what a more just internet could look like. We don't have anywhere near the time to go through all of the history here, so we'll just be focusing on some of the bigger issues. Please have the reading completed before our Monday lecture, because we'll spend that lecture talking about what we learned. Later, we'll continue the discussion on libraryfreedom.chat. You'll also review the Data Detox Kit and complete one day of it for your weekly tasks. | |
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+ | We won't be discussing these readings until week 2! But there are a lot, so you have two weeks to read them. | ||
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+ | [https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF3700/v17/bakgrunnsnotat/the_surveillant_assemblage.pdf The Surveillant Assemblage, Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson] | ||
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+ | [https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow] (read before reading The Californian Ideology) | ||
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+ | [https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron] (read after reading A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace) | ||
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+ | [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/history-surveillance-and-black-community The History of Surveillance and the Black Community] | ||
− | + | ===== Guest lecturer ===== | |
− | + | No guest this week; Alison will lead the lecture | |
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− | ===== Discussion | + | ===== Discussion ===== |
− | * What brings you to LFP? What are your personal goals for this course? | + | * What brings you to LFP? What are your personal goals for this course? |
===== Tasks ===== | ===== Tasks ===== | ||
+ | * Lecture, readings and discussion forum | ||
* Create a libraryfreedom.chat account | * Create a libraryfreedom.chat account | ||
− | * | + | * Read through materials on libraryfreedom.wiki |
+ | * Start readings for next week |