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The '''Sociotechnocanonicon Great Books Discussion Series''' allows members of the CDSC to build their familiarity with some of the classic works which are foundational in studies of online communities and peer production. The discussions are open to all, and facilitated by senior members of CDSC in order to introduce the broader context of the work. Meetings are held in person and aired over Jitsi for remote participation.
The '''Sociotechnocanonicon Great Books Discussion Series''' allows members of the CDSC to build their familiarity with some of the classic works which are foundational in studies of online communities and peer production. The discussions are open to all, and facilitated by senior members of CDSC in order to introduce the broader context of the work. Meetings are held in person and aired over Jitsi for remote participation.


== 2019 Schedule ==
Themes try to cover including collective action, social movements, participatory-democracy, networks, sociomateriality, sociotechnical systems, and cooperation.


This schedule describes the summer 2019 reading plan for the [[Sociotechnocanonicon]].
This page covers the Summer 2020 version of the reading group. Links to previous years are at the bottom of the page.


The reading group meets on https://meet.jit.si/sociotechnocanonicon every Tuesday, 11:30 - 1:00 PM Pacific time.
== Details and Schedule ==


=== Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas ===
;Time: Mondays at 11am Pacific; 1pm Central; 2pm Eastern; 8pm Central European
;Notes: [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/cdsc-stc2020 Etherpad]
;Location: Online on [https://meet.jit.si/cdsc CDSC Jitsi]


[[File:Mindstorms (book).jpg|thumb|200px|right]]
;<strike>[Week 1 / of July 6]: Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons (first half: Preface, Chapters 1-3)
* People attending: sohyeon, kaylea, aaron, sejal, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote, [[User:Healspersecond|Charlie]], [[User:Carl|Carl]], mika, salt, sejal
;[Week 2 / of July 13]: Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons (second half: Chapters 4-6)
* People attending: kaylea, aaron, Ellie, sejal, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote, salt, sejal
;[Week 3 / of July 20]:  Two articles by Yochai Benkler: [http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.PDF Coase's Penguin] and [http://benkler.org/SharingNicely.html Sharing Nicely]
* If there's anyway you can, read [[:wikipedia:Ronald Coase|Ronald Coase's]] [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-0335.1937.tb00002.x The Nature of the Firm] (Mako calls it a [https://www.pnas.org/content/112/24/7426 Sleeping Beauty] paper). At the very least, read [[:wikipedia:The Nature of the Firm|the Wikipedia article on the article]] which has a good summary of the piece.
* People attending: sohyeon, kaylea, aaron, Ellie, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote, [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]], [[User:St3f|Stef]]
;[Week 4 / of July 27]: Dorothy Singer and Tracey Revenson's A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks (first half: Preface, Chapters 1-4)
* Discussion leader(s): ''You?''
* People attending: Floor, kaylea, Ellie, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote(?), Nate [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]], Regina, [[User:St3f|Stef]]
;[Week 5 / of August 3]: Dorothy Singer and Tracey Revenson's A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks (second half: Chapters 5-8)
* People attending: Floor, kaylea, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote(?), Nate [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]],[[User:St3f|Stef]]
* Discussion leader(s): ''You?''
;[Week 6 / of August 10]: Francesca Polleta's Freedom is an Endless Meeting (first half: Preface, Chapters 1-4) and Jo Freeman's "Tyranny of Structurelessness"
* People attending: sohyeon, Floor, kaylea, aaron, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote, Nate, [[User:Healspersecond|Charlie]]
* Discussion leader(s): ''You?''
;[Week 7 / of August 17]: Francesca Polleta's Freedom is an Endless Meeting (second half: Chapters 5-8)
* People attending: sohyeon, Floor, kaylea, aaron, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote, Nate [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]]</strike>
* Discussion leader(s): ''You?''
;[Week 8 / of August 24]: Albert Hirschman's '''Exit, Voice, and Loyalty''' (the whole book, it's short!)
* People attending: mako, charlie
* Discussion leader(s): ''You?''
;[Week 9 / of August 31]: TBD
;[Week 10 / of September 7]: Data Feminism 
* People attending:
* Discussion leader(s):


[https://mindstorms.media.mit.edu Mindstorms], Seymour Papert (The website has a link to downloadable PDF of the book as a single file.)
=== New suggestions go here===
* Ruha Benjamin, The New Jim Code
* Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice
* Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples - Linda Tuhiwai Smith
* A People’s History of Computing in the United States - Joy Lisi Rankin
* Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Lisa Nakamura)
* Data Feminism
* Coding Freedom
* Automating Inequality - Virginia Eubanks


To try out the programming examples in the book, you can use an [https://www.calormen.com/jslogo/ online version] of Logo or download [http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html UCBLogo] (available in Debian/Ubuntu/Arch Linux repositories). Note that the command to exit UCBLogo is <code>bye</code>.
===Lessons from 2019 Instantiation===
* Deciding on book/s needs to happen earlier so that we can get the word out and folks can plan
* Intersecting reading choices and discussion leaders earlier would also be helpful


* 2019-07-02 Week 1: Foreword, Introduction, Chapters 1-4 (pages vi-viii, 3-119)
===Structural Ideas from Post-Summer 2019===
* 2019-07-09 Week 2: Chapters 5-8, Epilogue (pages 120-207)
* Part of a broader "Samba school" program that CDSC might operate as over each summer?
* 2019-07-16 Closing Week: Full work retrospective & follow-ups
* What is the periodicity of the STC? 3 years? 4 years?
** [https://bids.berkeley.edu/news/computational-thinking-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means Computational Thinking: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means]
** [http://morganya.org/research/2018-Ames-CSCW-Constructionism.pdf Hackers, Computers, and Cooperation:  A Critical History of Logo and Constructionist Learning]
** [http://www.papert.org/articles/EpistemologicalPluralism.html Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete]
** [http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/IJCCI-seeds-seymour-sowed.pdf The Seeds That Seymour Sowed]


=== Collection Action ===
===Reading Ideas From 2019 Planning===
* Axelrod's [[:wikipedia:The Evolution of Cooperation]]. A more controversial suggestion would be Kropotkin's [[:wikipedia:Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution]] —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b>
* Claude Shannon (or at least someone else's summary of information theory) [[User:Aaronshaw|Aaronshaw]] ([[User talk:Aaronshaw|talk]]) 16:38, 7 May 2019 (EDT)
* Hayek (on information) [[User:Aaronshaw|Aaronshaw]] ([[User talk:Aaronshaw|talk]]) 16:39, 7 May 2019 (EDT)
* If we want to read something ecological I would pick "organizations evolving" by Reuf and Aldrich. It may be a bit too high level and its kind of a textbook.  I'd also be excited to do Marx, Weber, Durkheim. Another idea for a social theory book is "Constructing Social Theories" by Stinchcomb. [[User:Groceryheist|Groceryheist]] ([[User talk:Groceryheist|talk]]) 18:24, 5 June 2019 (EDT)
* Giddens, A. (1984). The constitution of society: outline of the theory of structuration. University of California Press.
* Something by Wanda Orlikowski [[User:Sneha|Sneha]] ([[User talk:Sneha|talk]]) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT)
* <strike>Jo Freeman's [https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm Tyranny of Structurelessness] [[User:Sneha|Sneha]] ([[User talk:Sneha|talk]]) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT) (this is very short and important! there's no excuse not to do it —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b> 20:44, 5 June 2020 (CEST))</strike>
* Jessica Nembhard's  Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice [[User:Sneha|Sneha]] ([[User talk:Sneha|talk]]) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT)
* <strike>Francesa Polletta's [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3682810.html Freedom is an Endless Meeting] [[User:Sneha|Sneha]] ([[User talk:Sneha|talk]]) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT) (This is a new classic and and I'd really like to do it. —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b>)</strike>


==== The Logic of Collective Action ====
===Reading Ideas From Post-Summer 2019===
* Castells (or, perhaps, Phil Howard on Castells, with some auxiliary reading) [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 15:52, 13 November 2019 (EST)
* Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Hirschmann) [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 15:52, 13 November 2019 (EST)
* The Sciences of the Artificial, HA Simon. "best known for concepts of bounded rationality and satisficing" [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 15:48, 8 January 2020 (EST)
* <strike>Piaget (or, someone covering Piaget) in keeping with last year's pattern of having a reading about education [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 15:52, 13 November 2019 (EST) (Mako suggests the [https://www.amazon.com/Piaget-Primer-Child-Thinks-Revised/dp/0452275652 A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks] by Dorothy Singer and Tracey Revenson) [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]])</strike>
* Gabrielle Tard (Mako mentioned in orgcomm class)
* Kollock, Peter and Marc Smith. 1999. [https://www.amazon.com/Communities-Cyberspace-Peter-Kollock/dp/0415191408 Communities in Cyberspace]. London: Routledge.
* [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/data-feminism Data Feminism] by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (—<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b>)
* [https://www.amazon.com/Coding-Freedom-Ethics-Aesthetics-Hacking/dp/0691144613 Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking] by Gabriella Coleman (—<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b>)


:Olson, M. (1965). The logic of collective action: Public goods and the theory of groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
== Previous Years ==
 
There is a soft copy in the shared Zotero or you can ask in IRC to get access.
 
* 2019-07-23: Read the entire book. Nate is facilitating. Chapters 1 and 2 are super classic and the reason the book is cited as much as it is. I expect that much of our discussion will focus on the first part of the book, but feel free to bring up the other parts as well.
 
==== The Critical Mass in Collective Action ====
 
:Marwell, Gerald, and Pamela Oliver. 1993. ''The Critical Mass in Collective Action: A Micro-Social Theory''. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
 
* 2019-07-30 Week 1: Read Chapters 1-4 (pg 1-100) on "The critical mass and the problem of collective action"; "Building blocks: goods, groups, and processes"; "The paradox of group size"; and "The dynamics of production functions"
* 2019-08-06 Week 2: Read Chapter 5-8 (pg 101-193) on "Social networks: density, centralization, and cliques"; "Selectivity in social networks"; "Reach and selectivity as strategies of recruitment;" and "Unfinished business"
* 2019-08-13 Week 3: Applications to "our world" including [all available in Zotero]:
** Fulk, Janet, Andrew J. Flanagin, Michael E. Kalman, Peter R. Monge, and Timothy Ryan. 1996. “Connective and Communal Public Goods in Interactive Communication Systems.” Communication Theory 6 (1): 60–87. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.1996.tb00120.x
** Butler, Brian S. 2001. “Membership Size, Communication Activity, and Sustainability: A Resource-Based Model of Online Social Structures.” Information Systems Research 12 (4): 346–62. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.12.4.346.9703
** Solomon, Jacob, and Rick Wash. 2014. “Critical Mass of What? Exploring Community Growth in WikiProjects.” In Proceedings of the Eighth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM ’16). Palo Alto, CA: AAAI. http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM14/paper/view/8104
 
Once again, there is PDF copy of the book and all articles in the group Zotero library. Contact [[Mako]] if you need one in some other way. The book is difficult and includes a bit of math and data. Don't try to start reading this the morning of.
 
=== Other Related Pages ===  


* [[Sociotechnocanonicon/2018 Schedule]]
* [[Sociotechnocanonicon/2019 Planning]]
* [[Sociotechnocanonicon/2019 Planning]]
* <strike>[[Sociotechnocanonicon/2019 Schedule]]</strike> [Temporarily redirects to this page]
* [[Sociotechnocanonicon/2019 Schedule]]
 
== Reading list themes ==
 
* Collective action
* Social movements
* Participatory-democracy
* Networks
* Sociomateriality
* Sociotechnical systems
* Cooperation
 
== Previous SGBDS instances ==
 
* [[Sociotechnocanonicon/2018 Schedule]]

Revision as of 04:24, 10 November 2020

The Sociotechnocanonicon Great Books Discussion Series allows members of the CDSC to build their familiarity with some of the classic works which are foundational in studies of online communities and peer production. The discussions are open to all, and facilitated by senior members of CDSC in order to introduce the broader context of the work. Meetings are held in person and aired over Jitsi for remote participation.

Themes try to cover including collective action, social movements, participatory-democracy, networks, sociomateriality, sociotechnical systems, and cooperation.

This page covers the Summer 2020 version of the reading group. Links to previous years are at the bottom of the page.

Details and Schedule

Time
Mondays at 11am Pacific; 1pm Central; 2pm Eastern; 8pm Central European
Notes
Etherpad
Location
Online on CDSC Jitsi
[Week 1 / of July 6]: Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons (first half: Preface, Chapters 1-3)
  • People attending: sohyeon, kaylea, aaron, sejal, Mako!, jdfoote, Charlie, Carl, mika, salt, sejal
[Week 2 / of July 13]
Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons (second half: Chapters 4-6)
  • People attending: kaylea, aaron, Ellie, sejal, Mako!, jdfoote, salt, sejal
[Week 3 / of July 20]
Two articles by Yochai Benkler: Coase's Penguin and Sharing Nicely
[Week 4 / of July 27]
Dorothy Singer and Tracey Revenson's A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks (first half: Preface, Chapters 1-4)
  • Discussion leader(s): You?
  • People attending: Floor, kaylea, Ellie, Mako!, jdfoote(?), Nate Nemo, Regina, Stef
[Week 5 / of August 3]
Dorothy Singer and Tracey Revenson's A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks (second half: Chapters 5-8)
  • People attending: Floor, kaylea, Mako!, jdfoote(?), Nate Nemo,Stef
  • Discussion leader(s): You?
[Week 6 / of August 10]
Francesca Polleta's Freedom is an Endless Meeting (first half: Preface, Chapters 1-4) and Jo Freeman's "Tyranny of Structurelessness"
  • People attending: sohyeon, Floor, kaylea, aaron, Mako!, jdfoote, Nate, Charlie
  • Discussion leader(s): You?
[Week 7 / of August 17]
Francesca Polleta's Freedom is an Endless Meeting (second half: Chapters 5-8)
  • People attending: sohyeon, Floor, kaylea, aaron, Mako!, jdfoote, Nate Nemo
  • Discussion leader(s): You?
[Week 8 / of August 24]
Albert Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (the whole book, it's short!)
  • People attending: mako, charlie
  • Discussion leader(s): You?
[Week 9 / of August 31]
TBD
[Week 10 / of September 7]
Data Feminism
  • People attending:
  • Discussion leader(s):

New suggestions go here

  • Ruha Benjamin, The New Jim Code
  • Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice
  • Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples - Linda Tuhiwai Smith
  • A People’s History of Computing in the United States - Joy Lisi Rankin
  • Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Lisa Nakamura)
  • Data Feminism
  • Coding Freedom
  • Automating Inequality - Virginia Eubanks

Lessons from 2019 Instantiation

  • Deciding on book/s needs to happen earlier so that we can get the word out and folks can plan
  • Intersecting reading choices and discussion leaders earlier would also be helpful

Structural Ideas from Post-Summer 2019

  • Part of a broader "Samba school" program that CDSC might operate as over each summer?
  • What is the periodicity of the STC? 3 years? 4 years?

Reading Ideas From 2019 Planning

  • Axelrod's wikipedia:The Evolution of Cooperation. A more controversial suggestion would be Kropotkin's wikipedia:Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolutionmako
  • Claude Shannon (or at least someone else's summary of information theory) Aaronshaw (talk) 16:38, 7 May 2019 (EDT)
  • Hayek (on information) Aaronshaw (talk) 16:39, 7 May 2019 (EDT)
  • If we want to read something ecological I would pick "organizations evolving" by Reuf and Aldrich. It may be a bit too high level and its kind of a textbook. I'd also be excited to do Marx, Weber, Durkheim. Another idea for a social theory book is "Constructing Social Theories" by Stinchcomb. Groceryheist (talk) 18:24, 5 June 2019 (EDT)
  • Giddens, A. (1984). The constitution of society: outline of the theory of structuration. University of California Press.
  • Something by Wanda Orlikowski Sneha (talk) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT)
  • Jo Freeman's Tyranny of Structurelessness Sneha (talk) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT) (this is very short and important! there's no excuse not to do it —mako 20:44, 5 June 2020 (CEST))
  • Jessica Nembhard's Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice Sneha (talk) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT)
  • Francesa Polletta's Freedom is an Endless Meeting Sneha (talk) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT) (This is a new classic and and I'd really like to do it. —mako)

Reading Ideas From Post-Summer 2019

Previous Years