{"id":6,"date":"2011-09-14T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cyberlaw\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2011-09-14T17:40:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T17:40:47","slug":"cyberlaw-from-technopeasant-to-l33t","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cyberlaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberlaw: From technopeasant to l33t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of four two-hour sessions we will seek to place thinking about the future of technology into context by drawing upon fictional and non-fictional works that bear upon the internet, its culture and technology. These are the readings which rarely if ever fit into a law and technology syllabus, but which might inspire us to think about the big picture before immersing in the doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the readings being discussed this semester:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, September 15th, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Day One: The Past \u2013 how did we end up here? (31 pages, plus maps)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jonathan Zittrain. The Future of the Internet (And How to Stop It). (New Haven: Yale UP, 2008), 7-35.<\/li>\n<li>John Battelle. \u201cThe Future of the Internet (And How to Stop It) A Dialog with Jonathan Zittrain Updating his 2008 Book.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/battellemedia.com\/archives\/2011\/08\/the_future_of_the_internet_and_how_to_stop_it_-_a_dialog_with_jonathan_zittrain_updating_his_2008_book\">John Battelle\u2019s Searchblog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Randall Munroe. XKCD\u2019s Maps of the Internet.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/195\/\">\u201cMap of the Internet: The IPv4 Space, 2006.\u201d <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/256\/\">\u201cMap of Online Communities: Spring 2007.\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/802\/\">\u201cUpdated Map of Online Communities: Spring and Summer of 2010.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bonus points \u2013 update the map from the spring and summer of 2010. What has changed? What does it look like now?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, September 28th, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Ourselves, Online (79 pages)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neal Stephenson. Snow Crash, (New York: Bantam Books, 1992), 35-44.<\/li>\n<li>Edward Castronova. \u201cVirtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier\u201d CESifo Working Paper Series No. 618. (2001). (39 pages)<\/li>\n<li>Nicolas Ducheneaut, Ming-Hui \u201cDon\u201d Wen, Nicholas Yee, Greg Wadley. \u201cBody and Mind: A Study of Avatar Personalization in Three Virtual Worlds.\u201d CHI 2009. (10 pages)<\/li>\n<li>Kee Hinkley.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marrowbones.com\/commons\/technosocial\/2011\/07\/on_pseudonymity_privacy_and_re.html\"> \u201cOn Pseudonymity, Privacy and Responsibility on Google+.\u201d<\/a> TechnoSocial. Published July 27th, 2011.\u00a0 (21 pages)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Monday, October 17th, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Are Games the Future? (And will we even notice a change?) (21 pages + 30 minute talk)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles Stross. Halting State. (New York: Ace Books, 2007). 14-18 (online robbery)<\/li>\n<li>Choe Sang-Hun. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/05\/world\/asia\/05korea.html?_r=4\">\u201cSeoul Warns of Latest North Korean Threat: An Army of Online Gaming Hackers.\u201d<\/a> The New York Times. Published August 4th, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Lowenthal. <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2011\/06\/bitcoin-inside-the-encrypted-peer-to-peer-currency.ars\">\u201cBitcoin: inside the encrypted, peer-to-peer digital currency.\u201d<\/a> Ars Technica. Published June 8th, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Timothy B. Lee. <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2011\/06\/bitcoin-price-plummets-on-compromised-exchange.ars\">\u201cBitcoin prices plummet on hacked exchange.\u201d<\/a> Ars Technica. Published June 19th, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Charles Stross. Halting State. (New York: Ace Books, 2007), 158-162.<\/li>\n<li>Ben Kuchera. <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2011\/07\/monocles.ars\">\u201cLeaks, riots and monocles: how a $60 in-game item almost destroyed EVE Online.\u201d<\/a> Ars Technica Published July 11th, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Julian Dibbell. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/17\/magazine\/17lootfarmers-t.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=print\">\u201cThe Life of a Chinese Gold Farmer.\u201d<\/a> The New York Times. Published June 17th, 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Jesse Schell. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/videos\/44277\/dice-2010-design-outside-the-box-presentation\/\">\u201cDesign Outside the Box\u201d<\/a> DICE 2010. (Video Presentation) G4 TV.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Monday, November 28th, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> The Future and the Crowd: (76 pages)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ernest Cline. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readyplayerone.com\/excerpt1\">Ready Player One.<\/a> (New York: Crown, 2011), 1-36.<\/li>\n<li>John C. Tang, Manuel Cebrian, Nicklaus A. Giacobe, Hyun-Woo Kim, Taemie Kim, and Douglas \u201cBeaker\u201d Wickert. &#8220;Reflecting on the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge&#8221;, Communications of the ACM 54 (4). (2011).<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Zittrain. COG. Publication forthcoming. 1-5.<\/li>\n<li>Charles Stross. Rule 34 (New York: Ace, 2011), 153-157.<\/li>\n<li>Charles Stross. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2011\/08\/usenix-2011-keynote-network-se.html\">\u201cUSENIX 2011 Keynote: Network Security in the Medium Term, 2061 \u2013 2561 AD.\u201d<\/a> Charlie\u2019s Diary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of four two-hour sessions we will seek to place thinking about the future of technology into context by drawing upon fictional and non-fictional works that bear upon the internet, its culture and technology. 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