Welcome to Information Technology and Society

Week 7

Here's the wiki with course material: http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/FrontPage.

In this class we'll focus on how the information technology revolution developed, especially vis-a-vis long time Berkeley Professor Manuel Castells' research on the Network Society, as well as http://webnographers.org - a wiki bibliography on virtual ethnography.

I invite your questions, and I'll post a version of the text from each class to http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/FrontPage over the weeks.

There's already a lot of information on this wiki, which will develop with this class.

And please join the Google Group for World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware -

http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School.

Today's class (23 Oct 2010) was primarily in voice.

This is a transcript from the Fall 2010 course - http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/w/page/InfoTechSoc7_2010FA

[10:57]  Connecting to in-world Voice Chat...
[10:57]  Connected
[10:59]  You decline Music Island, Sea Turtle Island (52, 11, 21) from A group member named Kate Miranda.
[11:00]  Aphilo Aarde: Welcome Roman!
[11:00]  Aphilo Aarde: Welcome Roman!
[11:01]  Aphilo Aarde: HOw is the voice quality?
[11:01]  Roman Takacs: Welll that was a bad landing !
[11:01]  Aphilo Aarde: :)
[11:01]  Aphilo Aarde: I can only hear you faintly
[11:01]  Aphilo Aarde: That's better - I turned up my speakers
[11:09]  Aphilo Aarde: Welcome Steve!
[11:09]  Steve100 Juanos: thx
[11:12]  Aphilo Aarde: Welcome to Information Technology & Society
[11:12]  Aphilo Aarde: http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/
[11:13]  Aphilo Aarde: Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work."[4] "Wiki" (pronounced [ˈwiti] or [ˈviti]) is a Hawaiian word for "fast".[5]
[11:14]  Aphilo Aarde: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
[11:14]  Aphilo Aarde: Hi Andromeda
[11:15]  Steve100 Juanos: facinated w/ the openness of wiki vs vested intersted in keeping knowledge private
[11:15]  Steve100 Juanos: ??
[11:16]  Aphilo Aarde: NYTs: WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Chased by Turmoil
[11:16]  Steve100 Juanos: wow
[11:16]  Aphilo Aarde: Democracynow.org - EXCLUSIVE: WikiLeaks Prepares Largest Intel Leak in US History with Release of 400,000 Iraq War Docs
[11:16]  Steve100 Juanos: both might be ture
[11:16]  You decline Music Island, Sea Turtle Island (52, 11, 21) from A group member named Kate Miranda.
[11:16]  Steve100 Juanos: true
[11:16]  Roman Takacs: "Shoot the messenger"
[11:17]  Aphilo Aarde: Jody Powell -
[11:17]  Aphilo Aarde: Nobel Peace Prize winner from Vermont - land mine
[11:17]  Andromeda Mesmer: The latest info from Wikeleaks is such that it can be useful to both people who don't like Wikeleaks, and those who do --
[11:18]  Aphilo Aarde: Osama bin Laden - superempowered via the web
[11:19]  Steve100 Juanos: and the distributed net is 'wack-a-mole"
[11:19]  Roman Takacs: or the mind of NYTimes :)
[11:27]  Ju Roussel: Hello!
[11:27]  You decline Music Island, Sea Turtle Island (52, 11, 21) from A group member named Kate Miranda.
[11:28]  Aphilo Aarde: Hello Ju
[11:30]  Ju Roussel: I just assigned new DNS addresses to my professor's web... that was scary. But it worked. I someone had told me I'd be doing it in 1995...
[11:30]  Aphilo Aarde: http://webnographers.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
[11:31]  Aphilo Aarde: 2 billion users this year in 2010 with 6. 8 billion people on the planet
[11:31]  Aphilo Aarde: Welcome
[11:31]  Aphilo Aarde: http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/
[11:34]  You decline TLE Newbie Park & Sandbox from A group member named AmandaLyn Donogal.
[11:37]  Roman Takacs: (not so infinitie in ipv4 space :) ...
[11:37]  Steve100 Juanos: and the great firewall of china
[11:37]  Steve100 Juanos: :)
[11:37]  Aphilo Aarde: IPv4 > ip v6
[11:37]  Aphilo Aarde: 123.234.345.456
[11:37]  Steve100 Juanos: (ick)
[11:37]  Steve100 Juanos: :)
[11:38]  Andromeda Mesmer: That firewall of China is NOt all that great -- -
[11:38]  Aphilo Aarde: relating to a domain name
[11:38]  Aphilo Aarde: ICANN - naming organizatioin
[11:38]  Aphilo Aarde: ipv6
[11:38]  Steve100 Juanos: aaaa:bbbb:cccc:dddd:eeee:ffff:gggg:hhhh
[11:38]  Aphilo Aarde: 123.234.345.456.567.678
[11:38]  Steve100 Juanos: needs the colons
[11:39]  Steve100 Juanos: a lab computer we use is 2000:1013::1:10
[11:39]  Aphilo Aarde: 1234:2345:3456:4567:5678:6789
[11:39]  Steve100 Juanos: 8 hex groups
[11:39]  Roman Takacs: (about 1 ipv6 per cm2)
[11:39]  Steve100 Juanos: sure
[11:40]  Aphilo Aarde: http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/
[11:40]  Steve100 Juanos: microsoft has a good book understanding ipv6
[11:41]  Aphilo Aarde: api - appication programming interfaces
[11:41]  Aphilo Aarde: backward compatibility?
[11:42]  Steve100 Juanos: yw
[11:44]  Aphilo Aarde: Trabzant
[11:46]  Aphilo Aarde: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
[11:47]  Aphilo Aarde: plans to be in 3000-8000
[11:47]  Aphilo Aarde: languages - both for teaching & learning - as well as for archiving
[11:52]  Ju Roussel: Isn't it?!
[11:52]  Ju Roussel: for nerds? :)
[11:52]  Ju Roussel: yes, kidding
[11:53]  Roman Takacs: (chat roulette gives an interesting answer ...)
[11:53]  Steve100 Juanos: well, it does seem to be opening up in a grand way
[11:53]  Ju Roussel: Steve100 yes, I would be in the slums if not internet serendipity
[11:55]  Aphilo Aarde: Yes, Steve
[11:55]  Aphilo Aarde: HOw is sound quality?
[11:56]  Aphilo Aarde: :)
[11:56]  Aphilo Aarde: IRC - internet relay chat?
[11:56]  Ju Roussel: on twitter today "I start loving twitter people I never met, and hating Facebook people I knew my whole life."
[11:56]  Aphilo Aarde: :)
[11:57]  Ju Roussel: Wow
[11:58]  Ju Roussel: Now IBM'
[11:58]  Ju Roussel: s Andy Piper does awesome job with community management
[11:58]  Aphilo Aarde: :)
[11:59]  Ju Roussel: your voice dropped
[11:59]  Aphilo Aarde: I lost your sound
[11:59]  Steve100 Juanos: oops
[11:59]  Steve100 Juanos: oh well
[11:59]  Steve100 Juanos: sorry
[11:59]  Ju Roussel: after "we don't want employees to have internet access"
[11:59]  Roman Takacs: (voice vanished)
[11:59]  Aphilo Aarde: ok ...
[11:59]  Aphilo Aarde: it's back
[11:59]  Roman Takacs: Maybe sprint is still watching you?
[11:59]  Aphilo Aarde: :)
[12:00]  Aphilo Aarde: On Internet - people play roles with life -
[12:00]  Aphilo Aarde: Sherry Turkle's book - "Life on the Screen"
[12:00]  Aphilo Aarde: See you at 12:10
[12:00]  Aphilo Aarde: :)
[12:09]  Aphilo Aarde: Hello everyone
[12:10]  Ju Roussel: :)
[12:10]  Roman Takacs: ;)
[12:10]  Aphilo Aarde: Welcome back
[12:10]  Ju Roussel: breaking a bit
[12:10]  Roman Takacs: (voice is still "flakey:")
[12:10]  Roman Takacs: (it's still the way it was ...)
[12:11]  Ju Roussel: the portion of the past hour I was here, your voice was very good Aphilo.
[12:11]  Roman Takacs: Makes it nice and futuristic :)
[12:11]  Ju Roussel: Now it's very good.
[12:12]  Aphilo Aarde: MIT psychoanalyst - Sherry Turkle
[12:12]  Aphilo Aarde: "Life on the Screen"
[12:13]  Roman Takacs: (mine has more hair :))
[12:13]  Aphilo Aarde: :)
[12:17]  Connecting to in-world Voice Chat...
[12:17]  Disconnected from in-world Voice Chat

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