Josh Wells<p>Had my social informatics students read work <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> did with Consumer Reports about social media federation and user rights. Also considering what we can learn about society, technology, and ethics from science fiction. </p><p>If anybody is interested in reusing, here's the text of the module. Comments welcome if you plan to use or have used.</p><p>/* ACTIVITY BEGINS</p><p>SETUP: Students work with this material in collaborative file space</p><p>As a group, read these two connected pieces:</p><p>1. “Inside the Clock Tower: An Interoperability Story,” a short story by Cory Doctorow, commissioned by Consumer Reports regarding user experiences on social media and how regulatory legislation might affect those experiences - <a href="https://innovation.consumerreports.org/inside-the-clock-tower" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">innovation.consumerreports.org</span><span class="invisible">/inside-the-clock-tower</span></a> </p><p>2. “An Interview with Tech Activist and Author Cory Doctorow,” about the ACCESS Act by Consumer Reports - <a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/digital-rights/an-interview-with-tech-activist-and-author-cory-doctorow-a1943952645" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">consumerreports.org/digital-ri</span><span class="invisible">ghts/an-interview-with-tech-activist-and-author-cory-doctorow-a1943952645</span></a> </p><p>Answer these questions as a group in the space below:</p><p>1. How can you use our class science fiction readings to connect Doctorow’s assessment of the real social media landscape with his portrayal of a social media landscape in science fiction?</p><p>2. How can you use lessons from Kling, Hanson, and Coleman to explain how Doctorow’s actions here are a kind of folksy social informatics?</p><p>3. How can you connect Doctorow’s work in both pieces to your understanding of the Mastodon social network?</p><p>ACTIVITY ENDS */</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/sts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sts</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/compsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compsci</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/informatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>informatics</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sociology</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/highereducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>highereducation</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/openeducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openeducation</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/oer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oer</span></a></p>