I&S — Live from Last Class
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Last class of our course Internet & Society: Technologies and Politics of Control. John Palfrey currently wraps up the themes of the course. Here’s the list John is walking us through:
- Expansion of what law is
- Expansion of what law might apply to you
- Responses to changes in tech
- Linkages among the core themes
- Internet exceptionalism
- Business decision-making: mitigation of risk
- Role of the lawyer in this tech / law / policy story
John also summarizes the three key frameworks we’ve been working with in this course: four modes of regulation (markets, law, norms, code), the three layers of the Internet (physical, logical, content), and the three functionalities of law (law as constraint, enabler, leveler).
In the second half of the first hour, John will look ahead and discuss future trends, emerging issues as well as core values. Among the issues covered are comparative filtering, innovation (incl. P2P production, generativity), and creativity (free culture, semiotic democracy).
In the second hour, I will present my take on the course, approaching it from a slightly different angle. In essence, I’m suggesting a possible future shift from a (regulatory) paradigm of exponential growth to a paradigm of quality in digitally networked environments.
