cyberpolitics 2009 w3
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Cyberpolitics Week 3: Technology and politics
Langdon Winner
Technological determinism and technophilia
Activist: John Perry Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence of
Cyberspacehttp://www.eff.org/%7Ebarlow/Declaration-Final.html
Academics and public policy sector -
Nicholas Negroponte: MIT media lab - one laptop per child
Alvin Toffler:the Third Waves
Business sector:
Tim O’Reilly: What Is Web 2.0?http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=nsa5ZTRJQ5w
Langdon Winner’s - Cyberlibertarian myths and the prospects for
communityhttp://www.langdonwinner.org/main.html
Social determinism
Technology is not neutral
1. Reproduction of social ordere.g Long Island bridges
2. Inherently political technologye.g Nuclear power and solar power system
Panopticon
2015 Epic: http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/
Class exercise: An examination of search engine
1. How does search engine generate their income?2. What are the distinctive features of search engine?3. Who / what control the operation / rank of the search engine?4. How does search engine affect our knowledge of the world?5. How does search engine affect our consumption habit? Who are the winners and who are the losers?
Moral issue and social actors
Different approaches to technology and politics:
- discourse / ideology / myth- artifacts - material forms of power- culture and praxis- political economy - distribution and social order
Workshop: Technical design of GPA1035