Readings
The questions we're offering below are just one way to get the
conversation started. Please don't take it as a prescription and feel
free to start your own prompts.
Please post your reflections on Reading Discussions.
I. Consentful Tech
- Content note: Consentful Tech Readings contain references to, but not explicit descriptions of sexual and gender-based violence.
- Building Consentful Tech, And Also Too
Questions
- How do these principles relate to your own observations of online platforms and what are some other forms of consent violations that haven't been mentioned in the zine?
- Do you have ideas for how to create consentful chat platforms? Language? Interface? Infrastructure?
Further Readings
- Rape in Cyberspace, Julian Dibbel, 1993
- Afterword: Blaming, Shaming, and Feminization of Social Media, Lisa Nakamura
II. Peer-to-Peer Web
- Building and Browsing the Peer-to-Peer Web with the Beaker Browser (video), Tara Vancil, NodeConf Argentina 2019
- WebRTC Tutorial - How does WebRTC work? (video), Jonathan Liu, Fullstack Academy
Questions
- What types of conversations should remain temporal? And what types of conversations should be permenant/semi-permenant?
- What ideas do you have for building a p2p chatroom?
Further Reading
- Decentralize What, Francis Tseng
III Archival and Building of Collective Memory
- Zine: Making History, QZAP
Questions
- How are zines comparable to chat rooms / social media?
- How can your chatroom operate as an archive?
Further Readings
- Run your own social, Darius Kazemi
- Explore list of experimental social medias in the website resources.