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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. | ||
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==== Course overview ==== | ==== Course overview ==== | ||
===== 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 typically one hour of lecture, one hour of discussion, so please be ready to participate each week! Sometimes the discussion will be in small breakout groups, and sometimes it'll be with the whole group | + | * Weekly meetings are typically one hour of lecture, one hour of discussion, so please be ready to participate each week! Sometimes the discussion will be in small breakout groups, and sometimes it'll be with the whole group. |
* Tasks are things for you to complete every week. Usually they'll be discussion board prompts, diving deeper into weekly topics that we've covered in readings and conversations. If you have to miss some, that is fine! They're meant to help you engage more deeply in this course, so you'll get back what you put in. | * Tasks are things for you to complete every week. Usually they'll be discussion board prompts, diving deeper into weekly topics that we've covered in readings and conversations. If you have to miss some, that is fine! They're meant to help you engage more deeply in this course, so you'll get back what you put in. | ||
* 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. | ||
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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]. | ||
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===== Readings ===== | ===== Readings ===== | ||
− | There will be readings | + | There will be readings each week; please come to the weekly conversation ready to discuss them! |
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+ | * Read through wiki? | ||
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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) | ||
− | + | [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) | |
− | + | [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/history-surveillance-and-black-community The History of Surveillance and the Black Community] | |
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− | ===== Discussion board | + | ===== Discussion board ===== |
− | * 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 ===== | ||
* Create a libraryfreedom.chat account | * Create a libraryfreedom.chat account | ||
* Post your discussion board response to libraryfreedom.chat | * Post your discussion board response to libraryfreedom.chat | ||
+ | * Read through materials on libraryfreedom.wiki |