Class Notes for 9/21/07
CiC Seminar – September 21, 2007
Updates on what we’re doing:
Maria. Will be going to the ASIS&T Conference
Piet: Update on the OCW project
Lisa: Disaster Response Group at the School of Social work.
Rachael: Working in an elementary school in Detroit. Wanting to train the older students to help younger students use the library.
Bette: Surprised at how well the courses she’s taking fit the CIC theme
Mai: catching up on sleep.
Greg: likes that class readings are overlapping.
Jim: working on the CHI competition project on homelessness.
Scott: In the School of Public Policy, admissions office – idealist.org
Shyngys: just doing homework
Brian: Looking for job prospects.
Tim: OCW Conference. Creative Commons, Live Content CD, targeting toward libraries.
Garin: OCW Conference. telecentre.org telecentre knowledge network wiki project
Kathleen: digital libraries production service. Google book project. Social enterprise at the William Davidson Institute.
Readings:
Public goods: non-excludable and non-rival. One person’s use doesn’t reduce another’s.
e.g. national security, air, …the Internet (aspiring to be a public good)
Common pool resource: people’s use reduces the quantity of the resource.
So the question: How do we sustain the resource?
e.g. Oceans, fishing.
Osterman: three models to better understand the notion of public goods
• Tragedy of the commons
• Prisoner’s dilemma
o The dilemma: Cooperation leads to mutually beneficial situations but choosing for yourself leads to less gain for everyone else involved
• Logic of collective action (free-rider problem)
o Ride on other people efforts, not contributing.
o E.g. Bus system
Osterman assumes that there is no communication happening between the actors – communication channels allow for people to chose differently.
Element of Trust: interaction can create trust between people, but not necessarily. Collaborative environments – driven by a selfish motivation or a collective goal? How can we ensure that these tools lead toward trust? And that people aren’t ‘screwing’ them up.
Even making logical choices can still hurt the group overall. Need communication to ensure that people know what effect their actions have on the group.
Are ICTs a participatory democratizing tool?
Digital Divide reading:
Not about access, but about effective access. Technology as a basic tool for people – everyone should have the right to get deals on
‘IT’ is just another things. The technological divide is just a symptom of the educational divide, economic divide, power divide…
We can’t put tech in an environment without the necessary training structure in place.
The necessity of having the users contributing and not just being passive consumers of the technology.
Delpit article: cultural dissonance. People have a misguided attempt to help. Need to look at the cultural component of what we are trying to do and who we’re trying to help.
Process of Sensemaking: we create our own image and understandings of the other; but the ‘other’ presents an image of themselves. Tension between the two.
Cultural sensitivity. Need to be sensitive and open to difference and similarities. Need to be cautious to think about things too much.
Equality: what is it? Everyone wants the same thing. Idea of power is interesting; language and power issues…they have an affect on how people interact and associate.
Chocolate Cake example.
Is adequate more important than equal? Put in the context of the digital divide.
How do we define adequate?
Hart and Sharma article:
Incorporate fringe stakeholders in the decision making process.
Way too focus on the firm. Glorification of the enterprise.
Shell example.
Recommended book: The spirit catches you when you fall down.
Updates on what we’re doing:
Maria. Will be going to the ASIS&T Conference
Piet: Update on the OCW project
Lisa: Disaster Response Group at the School of Social work.
Rachael: Working in an elementary school in Detroit. Wanting to train the older students to help younger students use the library.
Bette: Surprised at how well the courses she’s taking fit the CIC theme
Mai: catching up on sleep.
Greg: likes that class readings are overlapping.
Jim: working on the CHI competition project on homelessness.
Scott: In the School of Public Policy, admissions office – idealist.org
Shyngys: just doing homework
Brian: Looking for job prospects.
Tim: OCW Conference. Creative Commons, Live Content CD, targeting toward libraries.
Garin: OCW Conference. telecentre.org telecentre knowledge network wiki project
Kathleen: digital libraries production service. Google book project. Social enterprise at the William Davidson Institute.
Readings:
Public goods: non-excludable and non-rival. One person’s use doesn’t reduce another’s.
e.g. national security, air, …the Internet (aspiring to be a public good)
Common pool resource: people’s use reduces the quantity of the resource.
So the question: How do we sustain the resource?
e.g. Oceans, fishing.
Osterman: three models to better understand the notion of public goods
• Tragedy of the commons
• Prisoner’s dilemma
o The dilemma: Cooperation leads to mutually beneficial situations but choosing for yourself leads to less gain for everyone else involved
• Logic of collective action (free-rider problem)
o Ride on other people efforts, not contributing.
o E.g. Bus system
Osterman assumes that there is no communication happening between the actors – communication channels allow for people to chose differently.
Element of Trust: interaction can create trust between people, but not necessarily. Collaborative environments – driven by a selfish motivation or a collective goal? How can we ensure that these tools lead toward trust? And that people aren’t ‘screwing’ them up.
Even making logical choices can still hurt the group overall. Need communication to ensure that people know what effect their actions have on the group.
Are ICTs a participatory democratizing tool?
Digital Divide reading:
Not about access, but about effective access. Technology as a basic tool for people – everyone should have the right to get deals on
‘IT’ is just another things. The technological divide is just a symptom of the educational divide, economic divide, power divide…
We can’t put tech in an environment without the necessary training structure in place.
The necessity of having the users contributing and not just being passive consumers of the technology.
Delpit article: cultural dissonance. People have a misguided attempt to help. Need to look at the cultural component of what we are trying to do and who we’re trying to help.
Process of Sensemaking: we create our own image and understandings of the other; but the ‘other’ presents an image of themselves. Tension between the two.
Cultural sensitivity. Need to be sensitive and open to difference and similarities. Need to be cautious to think about things too much.
Equality: what is it? Everyone wants the same thing. Idea of power is interesting; language and power issues…they have an affect on how people interact and associate.
Chocolate Cake example.
Is adequate more important than equal? Put in the context of the digital divide.
How do we define adequate?
Hart and Sharma article:
Incorporate fringe stakeholders in the decision making process.
Way too focus on the firm. Glorification of the enterprise.
Shell example.
Recommended book: The spirit catches you when you fall down.
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