Computer-Mediated Communication

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

2. “Knowledge is Power” • Choice to Share • Choice to Exit http://www.flickr.com/photos/felixmontino/3232503788/ Computer-Mediated Communication

3. Where did all of our information control and power go? • Accessibility • Durability • Comprehensiveness http://www.misterkitty.org/dave/ Computer-Mediated Communication

4. Incorrect Information Inferences Computer-Mediated Communication

5. “…[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” Computer-Mediated Communication

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. Computer-Mediated Communication

7. The “Chilling Effect” of a Digital Panopticon Computer-Mediated Communication

8. Potential Responses? Digital Abstinence Cognitive Adjustment Information Privacy Rights Perfect Contextualization Information Ecology Computer-Mediated Communication

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. • http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i216/f10/assignment1.php Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

10. Group Meet-Up and Discussion http://www.flickr.com/photos/ktylerconk/3045268759/ Computer-Mediated Communication