Schedule > 6. Democratization? Centralization? Shifting Control?
Week 3: Thu, Oct 7
Slides
Readings
- Jonathan Zittrain (2020). Between Suffocation and Abdication: Three Eras of Governing Digital Platforms (video lecture) . Tanner Lecture (Harvard).
Recommended (Optional)
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(1997).
The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020.
Wired Magazine.
- This article has deeply problematic and racist language and ideas. Consider it in terms of its ideological significance (versus its depth of thought), and don’t read it if you’re not feeling it.
- Criticisms of Wikipedia. Wikipedia.
- Stephens, Monica (2012). Guns, Germans, and Strip Clubs: The Fates of OpenStreetMap.
- Duguid, Paul Limits of self-organization: Peer production and "laws of quality". First Monday.