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Week 1: Introduction (Galloway & Thacker (Excommunication: issues,…
Week 1: Introduction
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Couldry
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Socially-oriented media theory: concentrates on the "social processes that media constitute and enable"
--> Social media as an entry point of understanding human action
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Week 2: Materiality
Lessig
"Code is law" - Liberty is built through setting up a constitution, which acts as "a guide that helps anchor fundamental values" Code isn't found, it's built
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Barlow
Cyberspace in the 90s: "None shall reign", movement away from the regulating forces of the US government
"As if the illiterate were to tell you what to read"
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relation to materiality: bodies everywhere and nowhere, no physical borders, not based on matter/law/governing bodies
No physical space, no matter in cyberspace
Parikka
Three ecologies: environment, human subjectification and social relations
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Material, energetic and waste management
Brown
Sweaters: when you admire materiality of sweater you acknowledge something about the look and feel and not about the specific context
De-materialization: you don't think about it as a device anymore but also as an object to "enrich the perceptual field"
Materiality:
- Composed of matter
- Having a quality of being relevant or significant
Week 4: Networks
Castells
Social structures constituted by deliberate social action, relying on relationships of Experience/Power/Production + Consumption
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Galloway & Thacker
Protocol and Power: Deleuze's freeway simile
Freeways discipline and control the roads taken by vehicles and allow administration, but do not control the routes taken
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Protocol: all conventional rules and standards which govern relationships within networks
- Accomodates all information
- Control rather than power
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Week 5: Surveillance
Trottier & Lyon
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UBERCAPITAL: the gig economy, adding value to the services which everyday individuals can offer with little to no cost to themselves
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Week 6: Platforms
Bratton
Generative entrenchment: once you start acting on a platform, the platform has a mechanism of making itself indispensable
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The Stacks: five internet giants Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook
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