Whose Values

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February 19

The Internet is often thought of as one place, as in Barlow’s framing of “our world” in the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. But we have already seen that this framing does not play out quite so cleanly. And nor should it, necessarily, because the Internet’s global clientele represent a wide mix of values, both in abstract principles and practical solutions for when those principles collide. This class looks at that issue through the lens of a few specific examples, and starts us toward a larger question: Can we fit all of our different values onto the same Internet?

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Readings

  • Case Study: The Innocence of Muslims

Optional Readings


Videos Watched in Class

Links

Links Shared in Adobe Connect

Chinese hackers attack NYTs site: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/chinese-hackers-infiltrate-new-york-times-computers.html?pagewanted=all

China blocking access to NYTs: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/world/asia/china-blocks-web-access-to-new-york-times.html?_r=0

Some general background on the Arab Spring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_spring

Lèse-majesté laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lese_majeste

Herdict: https://www.herdict.org/

Article about fantastic trangressive activism happening in China around memes that evade state censors: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/roflcon-internet-memes-thwart-chinas-political-censors

Ethan Zuckerman on the ITU Debate: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2012/12/05/good-and-bad-reasons-to-be-worried-about-wcit/

The death that lead to the "I Am Khaled Saeed" Protest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Khaled_Mohamed_Saeed

Class Discussion

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