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28 Feb 09

Topic 1.1: Introduction to Studying the Internet

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start making connections between our individual experiences and perspectives
more universal, broader statements
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- ole the Internet plays in society and people’s lives today

Study Guide for Module 1

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explain the connections between the Internet, the study of everyday life
xplain the connections between the Internet, the study of everyday life
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- module 1: community, power, economy and identity
- border between offline and online experience has disintegrated gradually
- become so much a part of everyday life
- Internet has penetrated our work, schools, homes, commuting, banks, government agencies, and shops
- ncorporation of the 'online' world with the 'offline,'
- ubiquitous (‘everywhere’) nature of the Internet
- distinctions start becoming superfluous
- the study of the human condition within the humanities
- we may come to understand ourselves and the world a little better
- there is also the possibility of positive change
- cooking at home, walking in the city (de Certeau), the pub, and shopping become possible objects of study
- discern the patterns and undercurrents that structure our lives and the rules that people do not question or talk about
- everyday rules and patterns are ingrained into our psyches
- powerful forces for social control
- powerful sources of information about a certain society and culture
- Studying these rules tells us much about the way power is distributed at work,
- how we identify ourselves
- understand the nuts and bolts of how power and control operates
- able to recognise ways of improving it
- operation of power in its most entrenched form
- at the level of the unremarkable
- Appreciation of the everyday transforms and unleashes the skills and creativity
- unconscious expressions of resistance towards this control
- The ‘sickie’ and ‘smoko,’
- examining the everyday that we can see how the Internet has made an impact on us
- possible to see the role the Internet may play in people’s sense of identity, how groups are formed and sustained, in the economy, and how power is distributed in our society
- own personal experiences of the Internet cannot be said to be everyone else’s
- The everyday Internet in America would be a bit different from Australia
- likewise, from the way it is in Korea, China, Thailand or Indonesia.
- would be inaccurate to represent this version of the Internet as one shared across time, space and social strata
- it is important in Internet Studies to unearth and study these differences rather than assume that the Internet is the same everywhere

22 Feb 09

Creating Passionate Users: Is Twitter TOO good?

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"To pay continuous partial attention is to pay partial attention -- CONTINUOUSLY. It is motivated by a desire to be a LIVE node on the network. Another way of saying this is that we want to connect and be connected

19 Feb 09

Towards an information ecology

Paper on the development of the information ecology and the differences on information-rich countries and information poor countries.

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ouanet11 essay information ecology

Information
is power - for good, for bad.
our lives, as individuals as well as parts of different kinds
of social systems, are dependent on the knowledge we share with others,
as well as on the ways we make profit of it, i.e. on information
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- what are the challenges to be faced by a society (a nation or a group of
  nations) in which knowledge and its communication is being shaped more
  and more by information technologies?
- what are the challenges of the global interaction between information
  poor and information rich societies?
- knowledge is being considered
  more and more as a resource, to be exploited, i.e., produced, transformed
  and used in the same way as the industrial exploitation of material resources
- become a commodity with a corresponding exchange value
- We have been used to considering information as something
  that just exists in our lives
- information is not a triviality. It has taken three hundred
  years to open written knowledge to vast sectors of society.
- Information is necessarily blind, i.e., we are responsible for the
  information we produce and use
- The key
  ecological issue concerning the production, storage, accessibility, selection
  and use of all kinds of knowledge is then, I believe, the preservation
  and increase of its social character
- information pollution, as a basic pragmatic concept of an information
  ecology
- disseminate an
  incredible abundance of messages
- I would suggest we call the problem
  message pollution
- Eco suggests something that he calls the "cultural guerrilla
- newspaper articles
  criticise TV programmes, TV discussions criticise books, and so on
- We can pollute ourselves with
  all kinds of utopias, which lead us nowhere
- slogan of a paperless society
  is an expression of historical pollution in our field
- ook for more humble
- ore specific ways of establishing
  the limits of this expanding technology
- ct responsible, conforming
  to the possibilities these limits offer
- illusion to think of a pure
  technological society
- illusion to believe
- pure nature or an ideal communication
- no ideal harmony between
  human beings
- no possibility of a perfect language for understanding and
  action
- always confronted with misunderstanding and non-communication
- Information technology is not necessarily
  a pollution instrument nor it is an ideal artificial limb
- If we distribute knowledge through different technical channels,
  then we should not forget the right to a general participation in societal
  knowledge
- the responsibility
  that, in designing tools we are designing "ways of being"
- information
  technology opens us its potentialities if and only if we are able to interrelate
  it with the whole of its social dimensions
- pportunity for preserving and increasing social understanding
- information pollution
- gap between information-rich and information-poor
  nations
- electronic technology has produced a change in the knowledge atmosphere,
  creating regions of prosperity
- advent of electronic technology
  has explicitly provided the question of dominance and accessibility to
  written knowledge, and it has made clear that this a key issue for the
  economic and cultural development of nations
- The
  gap between the information-poor and the information-rich
- he real information crisis we have to master
- consider the whole field
  of information
- global social perspective
- latter viewpoint the ecological
  crisis in our field becomes manifest
- communication and information capacities, of rural areas
  without any technical and/or educational infrastructure
- one-sided
  commercialisation of information products, of cultural and technical colonialism
  through the distribution of information products and channels
- acceleration of knowledge production
  and of its distribution through electronic means
- leads to lost of
  competitiveness, exodus of scientists, low level of education
- start considering the question
  of information pollution particularly from a cultural, political and legal
  point of view
- he benefits
  and threats of the (mis)use of information technologies must become part
  of international (ethical and legal) deliberation.
- not how can we get
  everyone to use a PC
- what
  are the most necessary things to do in the information poor countries
- how can we help them in order to promote their identity in the fields of
  information production, distribution and use
- information-poor
  countries will probably never be able to pay their information debts
- initiative for opening our knowledge stores
- mutual giving and receiving
  of information
- stop the emigration of scientists from information poor-countries
  making the gap deeper and deeper
- information pollution should be considered as the negative side
  of the information balance
- Information
  is an artificial resource and it is basically social-dependent.

18 Feb 09

Mindjack - Piracy is Good? How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV

Concept regarding product placement in shows with advertisers bypassing traditional media. Producers then utilise torrents to distribute product worldwide. This is called Hyperdistribution.

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