1. Computer-Mediated Communication
Privacy and Information Control: Discussion of Mayer-Schönberger’s “Delete”

2. Computer-Mediated Communication
“Knowledge is Power”
Choice to Share
Choice to Exit
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3. Where did all of our information control and power go?
Accessibility
Durability
Comprehensiveness
Accessibility: Who gets our info is out of our hands
Durability: The info lasts longer than we may choose
Comprehensiveness: mix, remix and mashups – combinatorial power of information is much larger than the constituent parts
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4. Incorrect Information Inferences
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5. Computer-Mediated Communication
“…[If] the widespread use of digital remembering leads to a loss of information control, it constricts precisely the freedom to shape one’s own identity”
“A History of Violence”
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6. The Pros and Cons of Human Memory
Tend to recall those things that are frequently remembered
Tend to recall things that confirm our beliefs, rather than those that disconfirm
We do not tend to recall memory specifics with time as well as we do with artifacts, events, people, scents, sounds
Forgetting is part of human capacity to move on, deal with past, push oneself to improve or change.
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7. The “Chilling Effect” of a Digital Panopticon
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8. Computer-Mediated Communication
Potential Responses?
Digital Abstinence
Cognitive Adjustment
Information Privacy Rights
Perfect Contextualization
Information Ecology
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9. Projects and Assignment #1
Assignment 1 is a short 2-3 page description of your group project idea and the division of labor within the group.
Due Tuesday October 7th at beginning of class (one assignment per group, 2 printed copies)
Groups will be signing up for a meeting with us to discuss the project after we read through Assn 1.
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Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

10. Group Meet-Up and Discussion
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