[Air-L] Help in syllabus about New Media and Collective Intelligence

[Samantha Close]

I've found it helpful to pair Manovich with Tara McPherson's "Why are the
Digital Humanities So White or Thinking the History of Race and Computation
<https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-88c11800-9446-469b-a3be-3fdb36bfbd1e/section/20df8acd-9ab9-4f35-8a5d-e91aa5f4a0ea>"
to get students thinking about both formal and social properties of tech
(and how these things intertwine) from the get go.

As far as collective intelligence goes, this probably isn't as new as
you're looking for, but I use Jenkins' Convergence Culture to explain the
difference between collective intelligence and the wisdom of the crowd.

Good luck!
Sam

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 4:07 AM David Stodolsky <dss at secureid.net> wrote:

> I would suggest recent work on Facebook,
> which clearly and dramatically shows what not to do to generate collective
> intelligence.
> The generation of collective stupidity seems to offer much more robust
> results.
>
> Once specific study showed that attacks on minorities in German towns was
> directly correlated with Facebook utilization. This should provide plenty
> of insider insights:
>
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Zucked-Waking-Up-Facebook-Catastrophe-ebook/dp/B07FC5BZYV/ref=sr_1_1
> <
> https://www.amazon.com/Zucked-Waking-Up-Facebook-Catastrophe-ebook/dp/B07FC5BZYV/ref=sr_1_1
> >
>
>
> dss
>
>
> PS: Along the original line:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu-RyZt_Uas
>
>
> PPS:
> https://cosmism.blogspot.com/2015/11/stodolskys-law-of-organizational.html
> <
> https://cosmism.blogspot.com/2015/11/stodolskys-law-of-organizational.html
> >
>
>
> David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
> Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark
> dss at socialinformatics.org          Tel./Viber: +45 3095 4070
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>
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