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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] | ||
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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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* [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]: this is a foundational piece in the realm of "surveillance studies" that can help ground our understanding of the problem. | * [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]: this is a foundational piece in the realm of "surveillance studies" that can help ground our understanding of the problem. | ||
− | * [https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace] A text written in 1996 by John Perry Barlow, which has been enormously influential in the cyber-libertarian ideology that has dominated the development of the internet, | + | * [https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace] A text written in 1996 by John Perry Barlow, which has been enormously influential in the cyber-libertarian ideology that has dominated the development of the internet, whch critics say has led to many of the problems with Big Data that we face today. |
* [https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology The Californian Ideology] A critique of the cyber-libertarian ethos, written in 1995. | * [https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology The Californian Ideology] A critique of the cyber-libertarian ethos, written in 1995. | ||
* [https://gist.github.com/kolber/2131643 Pandora's Vox] Another view of the early internet (1994), and a warning about what it was to become, from Carmen Hermosillo aka humdog. | * [https://gist.github.com/kolber/2131643 Pandora's Vox] Another view of the early internet (1994), and a warning about what it was to become, from Carmen Hermosillo aka humdog. | ||
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===== Discussion board prompt ===== | ===== Discussion board prompt ===== | ||
− | * 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 |