Our Syllabus: Digital Democratization, Digital Anti-Democratization
Critical Theory B | Fall 2018 DIGITAL DEMOCRATIZATION, DIGITAL ANTI-DEMOCRATIZATION Instructor: Dale Carrico: dcarrico@sfai.edu, ndaleca@gmail.com Course Blog: http://digitaldemocracydigitalantidemocracy.blogspot.com/2018/08/our-syllabus-digital-democratization.html Rough Basis for Final Grade (subject to contingencies): Participation/Attendance, 10%; Reading Notebook, 10%; Co-Facilitation, 10%; Toulmin/Precis, 10%; Symposium Presentation, 10%; Final Paper, 10pp. 50% Course Description How did the promise of peer-to-peer participatory democracy devolve into twitter harassment, doxxing, toxic comment sections, and zero comments? Is techno-progressive "disruption" merely reactionary deregulation, venture capitalist "innovation" merely marketing hyperbole, futurological "acceleration" merely social precarization, tech's vaunted "sharing economy" merely a digital sharecropping society, its "openness" vacuity, its &quo