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<h1 id="weeklies">Weeklies</h1>
<p>Weeklies are due <strong>before</strong> the start of class on Wednesdays. Starting week 2, your index page should have a section with a link to each weekly.</p>
<p class="whiteLine">Weeklies acount for 15% of your grade for the course. With 9 weeklies, each is 2% of your grade for the course. Weeklies are graded for completion, late weeklies will only be accepted if prior arrangements are made.</p>
<h2 id="w1">w1: UNDER CONSTRUCTION — DUE 4/5</h2>
<p>Create a placeholder COMING SOON or <a href="http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/uc/">UNDER CONSTRUCTION</a> index.html with some text and an animated GIF on the page using <a href="./assets/weeklies/w0.zip">this template</a>. Just edit the paragraph text and replace the image for now; we’ll spend more time on styling next week! </p>
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<li>Upload the index.html file to your DMA webspace using Cyberduck or another FTP client of your choice. (See <a href="./howtoftp.html">How to FTP</a> for instructions) </li>
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oMtfYa-EZCEM608G8SUX2PvHPRGur43eWbvCgxxSBUg/edit?usp=sharing">Add the link to your placeholder page to this spreadsheet</a>, so that it can be added to our class page.
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<p class="whiteLine">Check that your image has been uploaded correctly by visiting your site at <code>http://users.dma.ucla.edu/~yourusername/</code> (“yourusername” is what you use to log into support.dma.ucla.edu and the DMA cloud) </p>
<h2 id="w2">w2: How to Internet — DUE 4/12</h2>
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<b>Read</b>
<a href="https://www.jennyodell.com/projects.html">Jenny Odell</a>'s article <a href="https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/how-to-internet-6c379e75c8e0">How to Internet</a> and one other article from the list below. Please check out all posted media before deciding. List the ones you read at the start of your response.
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<b>Write</b> a short, two to four paragraph, response and one discussion question you have for the class. Your writing should be in the form of an html file linked on your Under Construction page from the previous week.
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<li>Audre Lorde, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/tr7gcnnck0ioasj/Lorde_s2.pdf?dl=0">The Master’s Tools</a>
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<a href="https://medium.com/@JacobsDesignCal/respecting-our-relations-dori-tunstall-on-decolonizing-design-d894df4c2ed2">Respecting Our Relations: Dori Tunstall on Decolonizing Design</a>
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<li>Joanne McNeil, <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2020/02/joanne-mcneil-lurking-how-a-person-became-a-user/">Search and Destroy</a>, an excerpt from <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374194338">Lurking: How a Person Became a User</a>
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<li>Joanne McNeil, <a href="http://iamjustbrowsing.com/">Just Browsing</a> video essays </li>
<li>Yaa Addae, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221215152102/https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/digital-doulas-fixing-data-trauma">Digital Doulas Take Restorative Justice to Cyberspace</a>
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<li>John Perry Barlow, <a href="https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence">A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace</a>
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<h2 id="w3">w3: Access & Disability Justice — DUE 4/19</h2>
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<b>Read or watch</b> one of the articles or artist talks from the list below. Please check out all the posted media before deciding which one. List the one you picked at the start of your response.
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<b>Write</b> a 1-2 paragraph response to the reading. You don't need to summarize the reading, instead note ideas, concepts, elements that struck or grabbed you. Make note of why and react to them.
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<li>Mia Mingus, <a href="https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/">Access Intimacy</a></li>
<li>Sara Hendren, <a href="https://medium.com/backchannel/all-technology-is-assistive-ac9f7183c8cd">All Technology Is Assistive</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfe479qL8hg&ab_channel=Pop-UpMagazine">Artist Christine Sun Kim Rewrites Closed Captions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.editorx.com/shaping-design/article/what-is-neurodiversity-in-web-design">Web Design for Neurodiversity</a></li>
<li>Carolyn Lazard, <a href="https://www.frieze.com/article/carolyn-lazard-edna-bonhomme-interview-2022">Illness, Intimacy and the Aesthetics of Access</a></li>
<li> Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, <a href="https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2019/04/07/ep-48-care-work/">Care Work</a></li>
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<h2 id="w4">w4: Identity Online — DUE 4/26</h2>
<p>
<b>Read or watch</b> one of the articles or artist talks from the list below. Please check out all the posted media before deciding which one. List the one you picked at the start of your response.
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<b>Write</b> a one paragraph response to the reading. You don't need to summarize the reading, instead note ideas, concepts, elements that struck or grabbed you. Make note of why and react to them. Then write at least two paragraphs about an identity you held online, how did your experience of holding that identity relate to some of the themes we’ve discussed in class or in your chosen reading: surveillance, fluidity, self-representation, political representation, etc.
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<li>Lara Baladi, <a href="https://www.ibraaz.org/essays/163/">Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age, Archiving as an Act of Resistance</a>
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<li>Sydette Harry, <a href="https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/everyone-watches-nobody-sees-how-black-women-disrupt-surveillance-theory">Everyone Watches, Nobody Sees: How Black Women Disrupt Surveillance Theory</a>
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<li>micha cárdenas, <a href="https://vimeo.com/169165310">What Now? 2016 On Future Identities</a>
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<li>Nora Khan, <a href="https://noranahidkhan.com/2018/02/17/empty-models-flattened-language">Empty Models, Flattened Language</a>
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<li>Morehshin Allahyari, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcK9K4Yty74">On Digital Colonialism, Re-figuring, and Monstrosity</a>
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<h2 id="w5">w5: Interface — DUE 5/3</h2>
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<b>Read or watch</b> one of the articles or artist talks from the list below. Please check out all the posted media before deciding which one. List the one you picked at the start of your response.
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<b>Write</b> a one paragraph response to the reading. You don't need to summarize the reading, instead note ideas, concepts, elements that struck or grabbed you. Make note of why and react to them.
What perspectives do you want to bring to your work online? What parts of designer attitudes towards prospective users do you think should change? What term you use for yourself: designer, artist, maker, or something else? What do you hope to communicate through that? What terms do you use for people who see, interact with, or use your work; terms like viewer, audience, user, player? How do you think these terms reflect or communicate your goals, ideals, or values as designer/artist/etc.
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<li>Adam Lefton, <a href="http://archive.today/2019.02.16-143102/https://medium.com/s/user-friendly/why-im-done-saying-user-user-experience-and-ux-in-2019-4fdfc6b7de23">As a Designer, I Refuse to Call People ‘Users’</a></li>
<li>American Artist, Black Gooey Universe / <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59238d36d2b8575d127794a4/t/5a60bdecf9619a7f881b02a0/1516289526013/UNBAG_2_AmericanArtist.pdf">Writing</a>, <a href="https://americanartist.us/works/black-gooey-universe">Artwork</a>
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<li>Olia Lialina, <a href="http://contemporary-home-computing.org/RUE/">Rich User Experience, UX and Desktopization of War</a>
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<li>Chancey Fleet, <a href="https://datasociety.net/library/dark-patterns-in-accessibility-tech/">Dark Patterns in Accessibility Tech</a>
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<li>Carolyn Lazard, A Recipe for Disaster / <a href="https://vimeo.com/267429320">Artwork</a>, <a href="http://www.lightindustry.org/lazard">Gallery write-up</a>
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<li>Dr. Safiya U. Noble, <a href="https://time.com/5209144/google-search-engine-algorithm-bias-racism/">Google Has a Striking History of Bias Against Black Girls</a>
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<h2 id="w6">w6: Data and Surveillance — DUE 5/10 </h2>
<p><b>Sign up</b> for a free account on <b>both</b> of these services, in preparation for Parag Mital's guest lecture:</p>
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<li><a href="https://chat.openai.com/" target="_blank">ChatGPT</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.midjourney.com/home/?callbackUrl=%2Fapp%2F" target="_blank">Midjourney</a> (click "Join the Beta")</li>
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<b>Read</b> either writing on data and surveillance:
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<li>Hito Steyerl, <a href="https://www.e-flux.com/journal/72/60480/a-sea-of-data-apophenia-and-pattern-mis-recognition/">A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition</a>, dealing with the Snowden leaks, drone warfare, bureaucracy, and deep dream</li>
<li>Zach Blas, <a href="https://www.joaap.org/issue9/zachblas.htm">Informatic Opacity</a>, also dealing with the Snowden leaks, activism, queer opacity, and anonymizing art practices</li>
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<b>Write</b> an open response reflecting on surveillance, bureaucracy, data capture, anonymity. Some possible prompts: Do you think about who has your data and how do you feel about it? Do you think it matters whether a “sea of data” makes your individual data difficult to parse and process? Has a data-based process ever misidenified you or been suprisingly accurate? Does data collection, by your institution, the state, or corporations change how you speak or act in the world? Which has greater effect on you, the surviellance of other users online, or the surveillance from larger entities? What are some examples where Data capture, in your view, has had a negative or positive impact?
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<p>Additional Media and readings on data and surveillance:</p>
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<li>Mimi Onuoha, <a href="https://points.datasociety.net/the-point-of-collection-8ee44ad7c2fa#.y0xtfxi2p">The Point of Collection</a>
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<li>Kate Crawford and Hito Steyerl, <a href="https://thenewinquiry.com/data-streams/">Data Streams</a>
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<li>Zach Blas, <a href="https://vimeo.com/320505641">Metric Mysticism [Lecture Performance]</a>
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<h2 id="w7">w7: Crowds and Gigs — DUE 5/17</h2>
<p><b>Reminder to sign up</b> for a free account on <b>both</b> of these services, in preparation for Parag Mital's guest lecture:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://chat.openai.com/" target="_blank">ChatGPT</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.midjourney.com/home/?callbackUrl=%2Fapp%2F" target="_blank">Midjourney</a> (click "Join the Beta")</li>
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<b>Read:</b> Astra Taylor, <a href="https://logicmag.io/failure/the-automation-charade/">The Automation Charade</a> [cw: use of the n-word in a quote from a black autoworker organizer]. The essay contains some Socialist-feminist and Marxist theory terms, like: reserve army of labor, reproduction of labor, and exploitation. If certain terms are unfamiliar, try looking them up or working through them together with a partner. At the start of our discussion we'll have time for questions, clarications, and discussion of terms.
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<p>
<b>Write:</b> A 1-2 paragraph reflection on your own experience and viewpoints as they relate to automation, the de-skilling of labor, and AI. How do you see automation and AI depicted today? Do you see liberatory potentials in these technologies, or is thier growth a source of dread, confusion, frustration, etc? How do these technologies and processes relate to your own work and field? If you have questions about terms, history, etc from the reading, please add them to the end of your response and we can discuss them in class.
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<p>Additional readings on automation, gig economy, and digital communities / crowds:</p>
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<li>Jacob Gaboury, <a href="https://www.womenandperformance.org/bonus-articles-1/jacob-gaboury-28-2">Becoming NULL: Queer relations in the excluded middle</a>
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<li>Casey Newton, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona">The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America</a>
<br>[cw: discussions of ptsd, descriptions of racism and racist content, descriptions of violence]
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<h2 id="w8">w8: Synthetic Media — DUE 5/24</h2>
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<b>Read:</b> The Data & Society report, <a href="https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DS_Deepfakes_Cheap_FakesFinal-1.pdf">Deepfakes and Cheapfakes: The Manipulation of Audiovisual Evidence</a>, by Britt Paris and Judith Donovan. The report is 50 pages but formatting, long footnotes, etc mean it is much shorter than it appears. Please scan the document and read the <i>Executive Summary</i> (2-3) and either 1: <i>Introduction</i>, <i>The Cheapfakes and Deepfakes Spectrum</i>, and <i>The Politics of Evidence</i> (4-22) OR 2: <i>Cheapfakes on Social Media</i> and <i>Conclusion</i> (23-48). Reading option 1 will give a broader summary of the phenomenon of deepfakes and cheapfakes as well as a history of conflicts around audiovisual evidence and manipulation. Reading option 2 will give a wide array of contemporary examples of manipulated video evidence, and discussion of how to address these issues today. <br>(Content: Discusses the beating of Rodney King by LAPD officers, non-consensual deep fake pornography, and the 1991 Gulf War).
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<b>Write:</b> Your thoughts on synthetic media, misinformation, and manipulation today. Some possible questions: Has your trust in media online decreased over your lifetime? Was there a time where you were fooled by information you saw on the news, social media, etc? How do you determine what information is trustworthy today? About four years out from the writing of this report, what is your perspective on Deepfakes / Cheapfakes, do you believe the report was correct in viewing them as largely a continuation of previous misinformation practices or do you think that they pose a unique problem today? How do these issues around Deepfakes / Cheapfakes intersect with other issues we’ve discussed like, identity online and data-capture?
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<p>Other readings on synthetic media:</p>
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<li>Colin Horgan, <a href="https://gen.medium.com/qanon-slender-man-and-our-paranoid-surveillance-society-b3d44075ba87">QAnon, Slender Man, and Our Paranoid Surveillance Society</a> (relates Qanon to the earlier internet phenomenon of Slender Man, and discusses how both come as response to surveillance and powerlessness) </li>
<li>Metahaven, <a href="https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336380/eating-glass-the-new-propaganda/">Eating Glass: The New Propaganda</a> (excerpt from the Sprawl that reflects on truth, propaganda, and inter-state conflict under neoliberal austerity) </li>
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<!--<h2 id="w9">w9: Infrastructure — DUE 5/31</h2>
<p>
<b>Read:</b>Either Joana Moll’s <a href="https://researchvalues2018.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/joana-moll-deep-carbon/">Deep Carbon</a> or Miriam Posner’s <a href="https://logicmag.io/scale/see-no-evil/">See No Evil</a>. Deep Carbon deals with the physical infrastructure and environmental impact of the internet and Surveillance Capitalism. See No Evil deals with difficulties in seeing the impact of and unethical practices found in supply chains and logistics, and how logistics software contributes to that invisibility.
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<b>Look at:</b> Ingrid Burrington, <a href="http://seeingnetworks.in/">Seeing Networks</a> and Jenny Odell, <a href="https://www.jennyodell.com/wherewasitmade/index.html">Almost Everything I Used, Wore, Ate or Bought on Monday, April 1, 2013 (That Had a Label) Was Manufactured, to the Best of My Knowledge</a>
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<b>Write:</b> A reflection on the topics and ideas introduced in the reading of your choice. Both of the readings for this week do make arguments, but primarily present information. In responding to information, don’t just summarize. Pick out the things that interest or grab you and explain why. How do they relate to other things you’ve learned, studied, made work about, or experienced? Propose solutions to the problems they present. Further, both readings present information around the physical, ethical, material impact of technological infrastructure, is this new information to you? Or is this more common knowledge in your discipline / field? How have these problems been examined, addressed, or conceptualized in your experience?
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<b>Other questions for Deep Carbon:</b> Do you agree with Moll’s argument that smooth interfaces mask the realities of internet infrastructure’s impact? How do her assertions around the growing size of websites / digital files relate to your work, practice, or field? Could interfaces be used or changed to prevent alienation from the impact of digital infrastructure?
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<b>Other questions for See No Evil:</b> Do accept the moral framework that companies cannot know the impact of their supply chains, or that that opacity to some degree removes them from culpability? Do you have an ethic for your own consumption and use of goods, and do you think that’s a worthwhile endeavor? How do the softwares you use limit your own knowledge, creativity, or possibility spaces?
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