[NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

[Andreas Jacobs]

> Do we need to programme to have a say in contemporary democracy?



Well, definitively NO!

Why should we/they as if the illiterate are not part of a democratic  
whole or is your 'democratic' model merely technocratic.
How about all those people who cannot read or write? Are they not  
part of 'your' game? If I am not very mistaken your statement  
proposes an extension of the current hierarchical dominant politic  
power relations, and - again please correct me if I am wrong - shows  
a top-down approach to accentuate an elitists point of view

On the contrary we should be able to cross the digital divide and  
built upon a more 'cultivated' and less technology oriented social  
structure. The digital divide presupposes an enormous theoretical  
impact on practical life, and is suffocating those who are not part  
of it.

"Conquer the Digital Divide, free yourselves from the Binary Master- 
Slave Principle"

Sent from my eXtended BodY


Andreas Maria Jacobs

On Oct 13, 2011, at 3:59 PM, ruth catlow wrote:

> Nice!
>
> I watched a video of Doug Rushkcoff talk to a gathering of Etsy folk
> about establishing peer to peer economies.
> http://www.rushkoff.com/blog/2011/9/22/toward-a-peer-to-peer- 
> economy.html
>
> As part of his talk he said that it has taken over 2000 years  
> (after the
> invention of the alphabet) for mass literacy to take hold.
>
> And that in order to participate fully in contemporary democracy we  
> all
> now need to learn basic computer programming (he reckons most people
> would need 2 weeks for a basic grasp of principles and elementary
> programming ability). On the principle that otherwise we are handing
> over the power to programme our societies to an elite few.
>
> What does everyone else think?
> As a remedial level programmer (I learned some php once, used to be  
> able
> to build Drupal sites, could cut and paste javascript and perl,  
> know my
> way around HTML and ccs- with ref to the web) I'm interested to know
> what people who do it all the time think.
>
> Do we need to programme to have a say in contemporary democracy?
>
> : /
> R
>
>
>
> On 12/10/2011 19:06, Rob Myers wrote:
>> David Berry (whose excellent "Philosophy Of Computing" I reviewed for
>> Furtherfield recently - ) has blogged about "iteracy" as a form of
>> computational literacy -
>>
>> http://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2011/09/iteracy-reading-writing-and- 
>> running.html
>>
>> "I would like to suggest that iteracy might serve as the name for the
>> specific skills used for understanding code and algorithmic  
>> culture – as
>> indeed literacy (understanding texts) and numeracy (understanding
>> numbers) do in a similar context. That is, iteracy is specifically  
>> the
>> practice or being able to read and write code, rather than the more
>> extensive notion of digital Bildung"
>>
>> And his next book looks really good as well -
>>
>> http://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2011/09/understanding-digital- 
>> humanities.html
>>
>> - Rob.
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