Who are we when we're online? And how can we engage in digital spaces in ways that don't undermine the mandates, practices, and ethos of higher education? The keynote explores the underpinnings of our emergent information ecosystem. Digital and open spaces are being weaponized, while pervasive surveillance and predatory practices are normalized. Trolling and bots are regular features of social landscapes, and people are often hesitant to engage online in fighting the echo chamber. Concepts of what it means to know are increasingly generated outside the academy, in Silicon Valley AI frameworks.
What does this mean for higher ed, and for the future of knowledge in a data society? This keynote, from Virginia Tech's Digital Literacy Symposium, explores ideas grounded in adult education, critical pedagogy histories, and contemporary open practices—including participatory digital literacies and the pro-social web—that may be ways we can ALL help bring the web back from the brink.
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Bringing back the web: The digital literacies we need right now
1. BRINGING THE WEB BACK:
the digital literacies we need (right now)
Bonnie Stewart
University of Windsor
DIGITAL LITERACY SYMPOSIUM 2019
Virginia Tech
18. Something is rotten in democracy when huge numbers of those
participating in its debates are unaccountable and
untraceable, when we cannot know who or even
what they are…the bots are everywhere now.
-Bridle (2018)
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age
20. Information organizations, from libraries to schools and
universities to governmental agencies, are increasingly being
displaced by a variety of web-based "tools" as if there are
no political, social, or economic
consequences of doing so.
- Noble (2018)
https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/
23. The new Silicon Valley venture philanthropists are seeking
more overtly computational models of education reform…
to design new software systems and
technological fixes for insertion into the
institutions of education.
- Williamson (2017)
Williamson, B. (2017). Educating Silicon Valley: Corporate education reform and the reproduction of the techno-economic revolution. Review of
Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 39(3), 265–288. doi:10.1080/10714413.2017.1326274
24.
25. we’ve handed over control of our
data, our identities, & our
shared public infrastructures,
including democracy.
we are outsourcing
knowledge-making & governance
to AI.
29. we need to bring back the web.
Or bring into being a NEW web.
a pro-social, pro-societal web.
30. The
Luddites?
• NOT anti-technology
• Threatened by the effects of
encroaching industrial systems
• No vote to change the systems
affecting them
• Organized “friendly societies” for
protection
• Broke machines
• 14 executed in 1813
• When you don’t tell your story, it
becomes another story
33. and we DO need to understand what
counts as enfranchisement in
the systems we are in.
34. a critical pedagogy approach
Nothing will change until WE change – until we
throw off our dependence and
act for ourselves.
- Horton (1997)
https://www.amazon.ca/Long-Haul-Autobiography-Myles-Horton/dp/0807737003
35.
36. key digital literacies for building
a better web:
1. complexity
2. cooperation
3. contribution
38. CYNEFIN
Snowden &
Boone (2007)
To know how
to address a
problem, you
need to know
what kind of
problem you
HAVE.
https://hbr.org/2007/11/a-leaders-framework-for-decision-making
42. 1. Sometimes more than one solution is
possible
2. A solution is possible
3. Requires subject matter expertise
4. Usually a lot of work
COMPLICATED PROBLEMS
51. complicated systems of thought
CANNOT solve complex problems
While machine intelligence
is rapidly outstripping human performance in
many disciplines, it is not the only way of thinking,
and it is in many fields catastrophically destructive.
- Bridle (2018)
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age
54. we need literacies
– & digital practices –
that foreground COMPLEXITY
http://andrewcerniglia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Cynefin_Framework.pdf
STRATEGY:
probe
rense
respond
no single right answersystem in constant fluxpatterns emerge over time
55. COOPERATION
How might technoscience be appropriated and
reimagined for more liberatory ends? How, in short, can
we design our sociotechnical systems differently?
- Benjamin (2018)
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/03/29/what-i-think-ruha-benjamin
56. “If you want to travel fast, travel alone.
If you want to travel far,
travel together.”
- probably NOT actually a proverb
57. the web is a complex system of
collaboration & cooperation.
like scholarship.
58. Collaboration is a coordinated, synchronous activity
that is the result of an ongoing effort to construct and
maintain a shared idea of a problem.
59. Cooperation divides labor among participants,
so each unit is responsible for solving a
portion of the problem.
61. Any strategy other than mindful, thoughtful cooperation
is a form of disengagement: a retreat that cannot hold.
We cannot reject technology any more than we can
ultimately and utterly reject our neighbours in society &
the world; we are
all entangled.
- Bridle (2018)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13521837@N00/2577665727https://www.versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age
we can’t fix the web without the
machines.
62. resistance as presence & participation
https://plus.google.com/+DaveGray/posts/CQRVeKEsUvFpid=5751686447270321954&oid=117373186752666867801
78. teaching.
The classroom, with all its
limitations, remains a
location of possibility. We
have the opportunity to
labor for freedom…even
as we collectively imagine
ways to move beyond
boundaries, to transgress.
This is education as the
practice of freedom.
– hooks, 1994
https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Transgress-Education-Practice-
Translation/dp/0415908086