INLS 180 Day 12 Notes

April 3, 2003

Plan for remainder of semester:

Today: MOO and discussion on digital metaphors

4/10: no class—work on projects!

4/17: project presentations & 2 readings discussion

4/24: project presentations

Tentative Project Presentation Schedule

April 17

Wu

Sundaram

Preddie, Hays, Losi, & White

Murray

Ho

Gruss

Tolleson

April 24:

Eakin, Kimbrogh, Sinconlfi, & VonInsenburg

Shoaf

Phillips

Jiang

Glackin, & Willis

Eager, & Wells-Angerer

Dorenkamp & Lambert

Dickey & Emanuel

Cherny

Brinkley & Lafferty

Brederson

1. One minute papers

Main Points

Recommender systems becoming more pervasive

Collaboration has pros and cons/costs

Behavioral relationships as information ‘nuggets’ or units

Collaboration can provide multiple perspectives, share responsibility/burden

Groupthink: good or bad

Having the information does not equal success; sharing the information does

Questions

Are any people immune from groupthink?

Will recommender systems become big brother? Stifle creativity/spontaneity?

Should libraries use amazon-like recommendations?

How does groupthink define/work in a democracy?

How to take into account people who subvert recommender systems?

How to protect privacy in recommender systems?

Decision making occurs on a continuum from individual to group; do pros and cons increase at an equal rate?

Are people who do not need strong external motivations the natural leaders?

2. MOO

3. MOO debriefing:

YOUR feelings

Did your palms sweat? Did you feel awkward?

Did you have a sense of being followed?

Were you in the room when the acrobatics began?

How would you have FELT if you had read “yourname punches Gary violently and knocks him unconscious”

How might you have reacted?

What cues are missing?

What is new/augmented?

Do we need rules? What kind?

4. The Dibbell reading (Wing Ho)

Additional thoughts:

The book “Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors” addresses 4 kinds of metaphor (and four archetypes):

Digital libraryàhuman as keeper of knowledge

Emailàhuman as communicator

E-Marketplaceàhuman as trader

Digital Worldsàhuman as adventurer

The Dibbell reading is in the section on digital worlds

Does a community require laws?

Is the Wizard's 'New Direction' like US foreign policy?

Why is @gag not enough?

How is toading different from death penalty (banishment)?

Was JoeFeedback a hero? A leader?

Would permanent virtual names help?

Are the word and deed (the mind and body) merging in Information Society?

5. Read for next meeting:

Gasaway, L. (1998). Copyright, the Internet and other legal issues (JASIST online)

Samuelson, P. (2001). Toward a new politics of intellectual property (ACM DL)

6. One-minute paper

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?