I do a bit of this in the chapter that starts the social media handbook, interface and infrastructure of social media. But really I only do the base amount to start a conversation, https://www.academia.edu/12296742/Interface_and_Infrastructure_of_Social_Med... On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Charles Ess <charles.ess@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm teaching an MA-level course on freedom of expression online, including somewhat technical analyses of early claims that the internet "interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" through contemporary censorship and surveillance efforts, tools for circumventing such efforts (Tor, Walid Al-Saqaf's al-kazir tool, and so on), tools for circumventing the circumvention (thank you, NSA ... as well as some approaches to Big Data, etc.) What I'm encountering is, I think, a common issue for which there must be a good set of available responses. That is, many of my students, however gifted, skilled, and well-informed they may be on other matters, seem to lack a basic understanding of how information gets passed along on the internet; what a proxy server is and why / how it works, and so on. While I'm not expecting great depths of technical knowledge, it does seem to me that some rudimentary level of knowing how these technologies work is necessary, both for a kind of basic information literacy and certainly for more considered analyses of censorship, freedom of expression, etc. So: suggestions for accessible, student-friendly resources that I can recommend and perhaps partly explore with my students that could help begin to fill in some of these more technical gaps in their / my knowledge?
Many thanks in advance, - charles ess == Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>
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