Coye Cheshire April 22, 2023//

Computer-Mediated CommunicationPrivacy and Information Control: Discussion of Mayer-Schönberger’s “Delete”

“Knowledge is Power”

Choice to Share

Choice to Exit

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Where did all of our information control and power go? Accessibility

Durability

Comprehensiveness

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http://www.misterkitty.org/dave/

Incorrect Information Inferences

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“…[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”

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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The “Chilling Effect” of a Digital Panopticon

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Potential Responses?

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Digital Abstinence

Information Privacy Rights

Cognitive Adjustment

Information Ecology

Perfect Contextualization

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.

http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i216/f10/assignment1.php

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Group Meet-Up and Discussion

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