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What would it take to hack a human? How exploitable are we? In the
cybersecurity industry, professionals know that the weakest
component of any system sits between the chair and the keyboard.
This book looks to speculative fiction, cyberpunk and the digital
humanities to bring a human - and humanistic - perspective to the
issue of cybersecurity. It argues that through these stories we are
able to predict the future political, cultural, and social
realities emerging from technological change. Making the case for a
security-minded humanities education, this book examines pressing
issues of data security, privacy, social engineering and more,
illustrating how the humanities offer the critical, technical, and
ethical insights needed to oppose the normalization of
surveillance, disinformation, and coercion. Within this
counter-cultural approach to technology, this book offers a model
of activism to intervene and meaningfully resist government and
corporate oversight online. In doing so, it argues for a wider
notion of literacy, which includes the ability to write and fight
the computer code that shapes our lives.
In the humanities, the field of "social knowledge creation" has
helped define how social media platforms and other collaborative
spaces have shaped humanistic critique in the twenty-first century.
The ability to access and organize information and people has been
profoundly liberating in some online contexts, but social media
also presents many issues which come to light in the
often-overlapping domains of politics, media studies, and
disinformation. While these countervailing influences are all
around us, the essays collected in this volume represent a
humanistic ethics of generosity, compassion, and care. Social
knowledge creation refreshingly returns to humanist values,
emphasizing that people matter more than networks, facts matter
more than opinion, and ideas matter more than influence. As a
result, the speed and scale of digital culture has challenged
humanists from many disciplines to more clearly define the values
of education, collaboration, and new knowledge in pursuit of human
justice and equality. In short, online culture has presented a new
opportunity to define how and why the humanities matter in the age
of social media.
What would it take to hack a human? How exploitable are we? In the
cybersecurity industry, professionals know that the weakest
component of any system sits between the chair and the keyboard.
This book looks to speculative fiction, cyberpunk and the digital
humanities to bring a human - and humanistic - perspective to the
issue of cybersecurity. It argues that through these stories we are
able to predict the future political, cultural, and social
realities emerging from technological change. Making the case for a
security-minded humanities education, this book examines pressing
issues of data security, privacy, social engineering and more,
illustrating how the humanities offer the critical, technical, and
ethical insights needed to oppose the normalization of
surveillance, disinformation, and coercion. Within this
counter-cultural approach to technology, this book offers a model
of activism to intervene and meaningfully resist government and
corporate oversight online. In doing so, it argues for a wider
notion of literacy, which includes the ability to write and fight
the computer code that shapes our lives.
The ubiquity of social media has transformed the scope and scale of
scholarly communication in the arts and humanities. The
consequences of this new participatory and collaborative
environment for humanities research has allowed for fresh
approaches to communicating research. Social Knowledge Creation
takes up the norms and customs of online life to reorient,
redistribute, and oftentimes flatten traditional academic
hierarchies. This book discusses the implications of how humanists
communicate with the world and looks to how social media shapes
research methods. This volume addresses peer-review, open access
publishing, tenure and promotion, mentorship, teaching,
collaboration, and interdisciplinarity as a comprehensive
introduction to these rapidly changing trends in scholarly
communication, digital pedagogy, and educational technology.
Collaborative structures are rapidly augmenting disciplinary focus
of humanities curriculum and the public impact of humanities
research teams with new organizational and disciplinary thinking.
Social Knowledge Creation represents a particularly dynamic and
growing field in which the humanities seeks to find new ways to
communicate the legacy and traditions of humanities based inquiry
in a 21st century context. New Technologies in Medieval and
Renaissance Studies Volume 7. Edited by Alyssa Arbuckle, Aaron
Mauro, and Daniel Powell
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