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what="official Computers and Society announcement by Evan Korth"
note="The first meeting announced below is past.
The second will take place
Wednesday 3 November 2010 at 3:30 pm."
edits="one typo corrected">
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:58:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Evan Korth <korth@cs.nyu.edu>
To: Computers_and_society_announcements@cs.nyu.edu
Monday and Wednesday at 3:30pm. Hope to see you there.
e.
Details:
Monday, November 1, 2010, 3:30pm, room 109, Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer
Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist bit.ly
OMFG privacy is dead and your identity is GONE and I'm reformatting your
iphone, too!!
Really?
We'll talk about the kinds of data you expose online and the network
architecture that makes hiding impossible. We'll examine how different
systems harvest and analyze this data, why sharing your data can be a GOOD
THING, and what you should know to make informed decisions.
-----------------------------------------------
Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 3:30pm, room 109, Warren Weaver Hall, 251
Mercer
Douglas Rushkoff, ITP Adjunct Professor will discuss his new book, Program
or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age.
When human beings acquired language, we learned not just how to listen but
how to speak. When we gained literacy, we learned not just how to read but
how to write. And as we move into an increasingly digital reality, we must
learn not just how to use programs but how to make them.
Digital tools are not like rakes, steam engines, or even automobiles that
we can drive with little understanding of how they work. Digital
technology doesn't merely convey our bodies, but ourselves. Our screens
are the windows through which we are experiencing, organizing, and
interpreting the world in which we live. We are doing more than extending
human agency through a new linguistic or communications system. We are
replicating the very function of cognition through external, extra-human
mechanisms. These tools are not mere extensions of the will of some
individual or group, but entities that have the ability to think and
operate other components in the neural network?namely, us.
And while machines once replaced and usurped the value of human labor,
computers and networks do more than usurp the value of human thought. They
not only copy our intellectual processes?our repeatable programs?but they
often discourage our more complex processes?our higher order cognition,
contemplation, innovation, and meaning making that should be the reward of
'outsourcing' our arithmetic to silicon chips in the 1st place.
The more humans become involved in their design, the more humanely
inspired these tools will end up behaving. At the very least we must come
to recognize the biases ? the tendencies- of the technologies we are
using. In a digital age, failure to do so could mean relinquishing our
nascent collective agency to the
machines themselves.
Rushkoff is the media theorist who first coined terms such as 'viral
media,' 'social currency,' and 'screenagers.' He is the author of a dozen
books on media, culture, and technology, the correspondent for several
Frontline documentaries, and has taught at ITP since the mid-90?s.
Winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public
Intellectual Activity, American media theorist Douglas Rushkoff has
written a dozen best-selling books on media and society, including
Cyberia, Media Virus, Coercion (winner of the Marshall McLuhan Award), Get
Back in the Box, and Life Inc. He has made the PBS 'Frontline'
documentariesDigital Nation, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool.
A columnist for The Daily Beast and Arthur Magazine, his articles have
been regularly published in The New York Times and Discover, among many
other publications. His radio commentaries air on NPR and WFMU, his opeds
appear in the New York Times, and he is a familiar face on television,
from ABC News to The
Colbert Report.
Rushkoff has taught at New York University and the New School, played
keyboards for the industrial band PsychicTV, directed for theater and
film, and worked as a stage fight choreographer. He lives in New York
State with his wife, Barbara, and daughter Mamie.
Rushkoff's new book, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital
Age is now available exclusively from OR Books (www.orbooks.com
[www.orbooks.com]).
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