Monday, September 23, 2019

9/24: Knowledge Production and the Hacker Ethic

Class

Essential questions: How is knowledge produced? Whose knowledge is disseminated? Who benefits from this system? What is your place in the knowledge society? 

A. Answering the questions for the FlipGrid Icebreaker:   https://docs.google.com/document/d/16QARu8CiFtmO7hobQh0AYrq_ZL66GxqcvuT5XYPV2o/edit?usp=sharing

B. Consider: Information Society versus Knowledge Society    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_society

C. Consider: The Production of Knowledge
 http://camellia.shc.edu/literacy/tablesversion/lessons/lesson1/production.htm

D. Consider: Information Privilege
File:AaronSwartzPIPA.jpg
Aaron Swartz speaking at a protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act
Source: Wikipedia

1. What information resources do you have access to by virtue of your institutional affiliation to LaGuardia/CUNY that others do not? 
2. What are the potential effects of the “information divide” for those who find themselves on either side of it? See, for instance http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/26/nearly-one-in-five-teens-cant-always-finish-their-homework-because-of-the-digital-divide/ 
3. What are the structures that perpetuate this system, and what can challenge these structures? 
4. What responsibilities (if any) do you think are associated with privileged access to information?

E. Consider: How does hacker ethic revise our understanding of knowledge production?
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YujAD3gm3rS54aY__DeS9-oiE-SNAhTlJvRw8HjqF_c/edit?usp=sharing

F. Introduction to Wikipedia. Reports on Wales

G. Introduction to our project:

Further reading
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