1. Social Issues 30 October

2. Class Schedule  Current schedule Current schedule  Proposed change: no speaker replays Available on net  Instead November 6: Work session for teams November 15: lecture OR spread out the presentations so only 3 per day Final write-up due December 4

3. Project reminders: Paper  Length is 8-10 pages. 10 pages is hard maximum  Review paper guidelinesguidelines  I will give content feedback before presentations

4. Project reminders: Presentations  Schedule Schedule  Review guidelinesguidelines  Rehearsals – Schedule individually In SN 011: evenings or weekends In my office: more flexible  Room will be available morning before class

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6. Social Issues  Culture of simulation  Internet addiction

7. Culture of Simulation  Sherry Turkle, “cybershrink” MIT initiative on technology and self Seminal work on people and technology 1996 interview readinginterview  Questions What about the Internet has changed since 1996? What is a simulation?

8. Simulations  Physical world examples?  Shopping mall: simulation of main street Streets of Southpoint!  Training devices  Television locations Cheers … and bars that are simulations of the simulation  Zoos and theme parks Busch Gardens Disney’s Main Street USA World fairs

9. Simulations in Cyberspace  Games  Simulators (flight simulator)  Social networks  Chat rooms  Multi-player online environments  Instant messaging  Why are these simulations?

10. Define “Simulation” The imitative representation of functioning of one system by means of the functioning of another What variables are important?

11. What is good about simulations?  Safe place to Learn Experiment  Opportunity to try things that you couldn’t otherwise try Different places and times Expensive facilities Danger

12. What is bad about simulations?  False sense of capability CPR without real practice Flying an airplane in bad weather  Can spoil the real thing “Disneyland effect” Nature videos or zoos Travelogs The Veldt (Ray Bradbury) The Veldt

13. Simulations in Cyberspace  With your own persona: Create communities and societies  Example: local politics bloglocal politics blog Communication with friends  Are these really “you”?  Do you have different persona? In “real life”? In cyberspace?  Is cyberspace “real”?

14. Meeting people online  Facebook, Myspace, blogs, chats  Dodgeball.com Dodgeball.com  Familiar Stranger: JabberwockyJabberwocky  Japanese matchmaking: LovegetyLovegety