Norms: things we do not know we don’t know

Mathias Klang
Mathias KlangAssociate professor
Norms: things we
do not know we
don’t know


Mathias Klang
         @klang67
The message is that there are
      no “knowns.” There are
      things we know that we
      know. There are known
     unknowns. That is to say
there are things that we now
    know we don’t know. But
      there are also unknown
 unknowns. There are things
    we do not know we don’t
                        know.

       Donald Rumsfeld
                (2002)
My unknown
Prensky’s Myth
A problem with Prensky
Orientalism and the outsider
Insiders can also be wrong
Faking it, or going
native?
Implementation: Our study
What cannot be
expressed in online
closed group
mourning?
Traditional
methodologies
Cultural relativism
Moral relativism
This new new thing
Unashamedly
Normative Me
Technology
  supporting or
creating norms
Critical infrastructure
What users need?
Snapshot! or
universalism?
Mathias Klang
     klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
           www.digital-rights.net

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Norms: things we do not know we don’t know

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  1. Eskatol (8 of 12) from Synne Tonidas cc by nc sa Norms: Expected patterns of behavior and belief. The underpinnings of regulation.
  2. old man grumbling ... by * hiro008 cc by nc sa Criticism Slavoj Žižek extrapolates from these three categories a fourth, the unknown known , that which we intentionally refuse to acknowledge that we know: If Rumsfeld thinks that the main dangers in the confrontation with Iraq were the "unknown unknowns," that is, the threats from Saddam whose nature we cannot even suspect, then the Abu Ghraib scandal shows that the main dangers lie in the "unknown knowns" – the disavowed beliefs, suppositions and obscene practices we pretend not to know about, even though they form the background of our public values.
  3. student_ipad_school - 030 By flickingerbrad cc by Mobile Social Relationships
  4. Typical Riley Pose By peasap cc by A digital native is a person who was born during or after the general introduction of digital technologies and through interacting with digital technology from an early age, has a greater understanding of its concepts . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_native
  5. Slum tour by Wrote CC BY NC Natives, immigrants, tourists
  6. Conquerors from Gabo Morales cc by sa Since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978, much academic discourse has begun to use the term "Orientalism" to refer to a general patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian and North African societies. In Said's analysis, the West essentializes these societies as static and undeveloped—thereby fabricating a view of Oriental culture that can be studied, depicted, and reproduced. Implicit in this fabrication, writes Said, is the idea that Western society is developed, rational, flexible, and superior. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism
  7. This is Secret by Stuck in Customs cc by nc sa
  8. thumbnail By istolethetv cc by
  9. Sequined Reflection from ktspix cc by nc sa
  10. Talk Shows On Mute from Katie Tegtmeyer cc by
  11. The last storyteller from Daniel Tellman cc by
  12. Untitled from Alain Bachellier cc by nc sa Cultural relativism is a principle that was established as axiomatic in anthropological research by Franz Boas in the first few decades of the 20th century and later popularized by his students. Boas first articulated the idea in 1887: "... civilization is not something absolute, but ... is relative, and ... our ideas and conceptions are true only so far as our civilization goes ."[1] However, Boas did not coin the term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_relativism
  13. Sound of silence by Daniel Gasienica cc by nc nd Moral relativism may be any of several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures. Descriptive moral relativism holds only that some people do in fact disagree about what is moral; meta-ethical moral relativism holds that in such disagreements, nobody is objectively right or wrong ; and normative moral relativism holds that because nobody is right or wrong, we ought to tolerate the behavior of others even when we disagree about the morality of it.
  14. lick am Abend By 85mm.ch Has mourning changed?
  15. the smile from Emilia Tjernström [Arriving at the... cc by nc sa
  16. Smiling in the rain from swan-t cc by nc What norms? Whose norms?
  17. Rice Farmer from ImageMD cc by nc sa
  18. scream and shout from mdanys cc by Who are the users? What are there needs?
  19. Eyes ! (Youth from Antikythera!) by agelakis cc by nc sa Across time and culture