The document discusses several themes related to digital diversity including platforms, institutions, practices, beliefs and ideologies. It explains how technologies can both limit and open new possibilities, and how institutions create policies and define practices. The document also discusses how beliefs and ideologies narrate both technology and society, and how digital technology reframes ethical frameworks around issues like privacy, social interaction, and politics.

1. Digital Diversity
01.12.2011
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2. quiz
1. Popular media often report technology stories using a “moral panic”
framework. What is this framework?
2. As opposed to digital copies, every analogue copy of an original is
always_______________________
3. Convergence in the digital media sense is __________________
4. How does convergence through digital media pose new ethical dilemmas?
Give one example.
5. Part of the difference of digital as opposed to analogue media, is that digital
media is “greased.” What does this mean? Give one example.
6. What does it mean that our ethical responsibility now needs to be
understood in terms of a “distributed responsibility?”
7. Ethical monism is___________________
8. Ethical relativism is _________________
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3. digital diversity themes
& intersections
• platforms
• technologies that limit and open new
possibilities
• create structures/actions/beliefs
• institutions
• create policies
• define practices
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4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKceTQCD8RM
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5. • practices
• change over time
• redefine how we do other things
• beliefs / ideologies
• how we narrate BOTH technology and
society
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6. technology
• it makes our lives easier
• it is neutral (not biased)
• brings “progress” to societies ( mark of
modernization)
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7. beliefs about google
• as a social-technological platform
• helps people find everything
• makes our lives easy
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=oNofb-OlZyQ
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8. digital ethics
• digital technology reframes our ethical
frameworks for
• privacy
• social interaction
• educational practices
• political practices/ideas
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9. digital stories
• do they mask or illuminate ethical
questions?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=6ILQrUrEWe8
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10. digital + diversity
• technologies and digital practices are
embedded with ideologies that mask
illuminate and define INEQUALITIES
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11. assignment 1
• register your blog (wordpress, blogger any
platform)
• choose and theme and a name for your
blog
• send your blog link to me
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