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Hey all, I'm screening the NYT at work this week and came across two articles that I thought would be relevant to share here: | |||
Fighting homelessness with smartphones (a case for why technology has become a basic need): | |||
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/upshot/fighting-homelessness-one-smartphone-at-a-time.html?abt=0002&abg=1 | |||
Europe formally challenges Google's dominance in web searches: | |||
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/business/international/european-union-google-antitrust-case.html | |||
[[User:Kelly.wilson|Kelly.wilson]] ([[User talk:Kelly.wilson|talk]]) | |||
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April 21
Although the point may seem obvious now, one of the Internet’s most powerful attributes is how it can facilitate the social production of information or computing. From the earliest experiments with dividing memory-intensive tasks amongst different computers, to modern efforts to crowdsource solutions to challenging or urgent problems, peer production is a major benefit from our networked world. And it raises some interesting questions of both Internet control and production theory: How much hierarchy and control is needed to produce? How good is the material that peer production creates? Are there types of things that should not be produced by the crowd? What are the risks to producers and society inherent to peer production?
Joining us this week is Berkman Fellow SJ Klein.
Readings
- Development from the edges
- Eric Von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation (Chapter 1, focus on pages 1-3 and 13-15, skim rest)
- Development as a crowd
- Jerome Hergeaux, Cooperation in a Peer Production Economy: Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia (video, watch from beginning to 47:50)
- Yochai Benkler, News, Information and the Wealth of Networks (video, watch from 8:32 to 26:07)
- if you’re not familiar, you may want to spend a little time looking at Wikipedia’s entry on Seti@home.
- Crowd intelligence
- James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds (read excerpt)
Optional Readings
- Jonathan Zittrain, Minds for Sale (video, watch all)
Videos Watched in Class
Links
Class Discussion
Hey all, I'm screening the NYT at work this week and came across two articles that I thought would be relevant to share here:
Fighting homelessness with smartphones (a case for why technology has become a basic need): http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/upshot/fighting-homelessness-one-smartphone-at-a-time.html?abt=0002&abg=1
Europe formally challenges Google's dominance in web searches: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/business/international/european-union-google-antitrust-case.html