[Air-L] With Friends Like Facebook ....

[Peter Timusk]

Very good point Ray I have often sat in my critical legal studies  
courses thinking about being pushed like this.  here are a few  
examples of the majority is wrong.

Law class in 2002...Prof says we have to use the criminal law course  
USENET group to get the most of this course. He posts notes for  
classes there. Usenet is argument. Class uses Usenet together  
arguments start. Prof scolds us all for arguing.

Then they started shutting the school internets. Fully closed in  
early 2000's. My school used to be part of the USNET hierarchy now my  
school does not even connect USENET nor do they still have dial up  
Internet at school.

Even my internet provider has dropped USENET. I must now use Goggle.

just two old cents worth

On 16-Jan-08, at 1:03 PM, Ray Land wrote:

>>>> Should we be thinking about pulling our profiles?
>
> You raise a very salient issue here Charles and I certainly  
> pondered that decision myself.  There is a delicate ethical issue  
> too for formal programmes that are studying these social  
> technologies and which therefore more or less oblige their students  
> to participate in them. However a counter-argument would be that if  
> you don't kow what's going inside such environments you won't be in  
> an informed position to critique them.
>
> Ray
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> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Charles Ess
> Sent: Wed 16/01/2008 15:33
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> Subject: Re: [Air-L] With Friends Like Facebook ....
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>
>> If colleagues have not come across the highly critical perspective  
>> of Facebook
>> by journalist Tom Hodgkinson in the Guardian newspaper (UK)  
>> earlier this week
>> they may find it of interest.
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook
>
> What an interesting piece!  Raises all kinds of compelling ethical and
> political questions ...
>
> I'd also be interested in knowing similar background information on  
> such
> places as MySpace, Orkut, LinkedIn, etc.
>
> And: it wouldn't surprise me (unfortunately) if 90+ % of the  
> observations
> regarding political ideology, etc., are true.  Still, it seems only  
> to fair
> to ask if the folk portrayed have anything to say from their side  
> of the
> story?
>
> However all that turns out - perhaps Niel Postman had it right in  
> 1984: we
> are in love with the technologies of our enslavement ...
>
> Or, to be provocative, did the Matrix get it right: we're confined  
> to a pod
> of virtual existence, with (more or less) nowhere to go?
>
> Should we be thinking about pulling our profiles?
>
> grumpily (I truly wish I didn't have to _think_ about all of this! ...
> smile)
> - charles ess
>
>
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