Spring21 Week 2

Welcome to Week 2! We continue to explore the world of Snow Crash and the stories of Hiro, Juanita, and Y.T.. Among the many themes raised in this week's reading, we will focus on: Hackers and Hacking Culture, Workplace Analytics, Cities Suburbs and Urban Sprawl, and Pollution. 

Reading this Week

Chapters 23 to 45

Let's discuss what Hiro does best - hacking!

Did you look at the Hacker Manifesto (January 8, 1986)? 

Viewing this Week 

Sneakers

Sneaker's Team Demands

Optional Readings

Hackers and Hacking Culture

Hacker Manifesto http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html 

White Hat, Black Hat, and Grey Hat Hackers https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/technology/blog/types-of-hackers

Hacking the ISTE Badge 2018 https://k12cybersecure.com/blog/hacking-the-iste18-smart-badge

Workplace Analytics

European Data Activists to the EU https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/EDRi-open-letter-AI-red-lines.pdf

Microsoft Workplace Analytics https://www.inputmag.com/culture/microsoft-365-is-going-full-cop-on-employees-with-constant-monitoring

Metric description for Workplace Analytics https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/workplace-analytics/use/metric-definitions

Create a Culture where people can do their best work https://cloudpartners.transform.microsoft.com/practices/employee-experience/overview

Zoom’s attention tracking feature is ripe for misuse https://www.inputmag.com/tech/zooms-attention-tracking-is-ripe-for-misuse-abuse

Facebook is clamping down on “idle chat” from its not - remote workplace https://www.inputmag.com/culture/facebook-is-clamping-down-on-idle-chat-from-its-now-remote-workforce

Cities, Suburbs, and Urban Sprawl

Urban Sprawl: https://www.everythingconnects.org/urban-sprawl.html

The Characteristics, Causes, and Consequences of Sprawling Development Patterns in the United States https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/the-characteristics-causes-and-consequences-of-sprawling-103014747/ 

Downtown Denver Partnership - Downtown Denver Security Action Plan https://www.downtowndenver.com/initiatives-and-planning/security-action-plan/

City of Detroit plans to shrink https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/us/06detroit.html

Stephen Marotta’s Thesis: Creative Reconstruction in the City: An Analysis of Art, Shrinking, and the Story of the American Dream in Detroit, MI 

https://repository.asu.edu/attachments/56602/content/Marotta_asu_0010N_10575.pdf 

Detroit: Shrinking Cities http://www.shrinkingcities.com/fileadmin/shrink/downloads/pdfs/WP-Band_III_Detroit.pdf 

Rethinking urban sprawl: Moving towards sustainable cities https://www.oecd.org/environment/tools-evaluation/Policy-Highlights-Rethinking-Urban-Sprawl.pdf 

Discussion