Comments on: Hacking ethics for edupunks http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Hacking our Conferences | ClioWeb http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-82 Sat, 29 May 2010 15:55:34 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-82 […] Hacking in the Humanities a group-edited syllabus on ethics in hacking for digital humanities, a session proposed by John M. Jones at […]

]]> By: Why “Hack the Academy”? « The Leisurely Historian… http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-81 Sat, 29 May 2010 03:53:58 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-81 […] when a group of us at THATCamp 2010 attempted to put together the beginnings of a syllabus on "Ethical Hacking for the Humanities." The more we discussed what should be included, the more amorphous the whole endeavor began to feel. […]

]]> By: briancroxall http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-80 Sat, 22 May 2010 03:44:37 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-80 This sounds like a really productive session idea. A lot better than making iPad users run the gauntlet, as had been previously suggested.

]]> By: John Jones http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-79 Wed, 05 May 2010 15:46:23 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-79 Mark,

Sounds interesting.

]]> By: Mark Sample http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-77 Wed, 05 May 2010 15:30:38 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-77 Hacking Ethics for Edupunks is a great session idea. But geek cred aside, I’d like to push us beyond just talking about the closed nature of the iPad. In fact, trying to avoid talking about Apple might make this session more interesting.

There are a host of—for lack of a better phrase—democratic hacks that are more accessible and applicable to our daily lives as teachers and researchers than figuring out how to jailbreak an iPhone or root an Android. Greasemonkey scripts, AdBlock, web developer extensions—they all “break” systems, and they all raise important ethical and epistemological questions.

My own interest along these lines concerns software emulators, which are often used to run archaic programs and retro games that would otherwise be unavailable to contemporary researchers and students (unless you happen to have a garage full of dinosaurs like the Atari VCS, the Apple II, the C64, the NES, etc.). These emulators are crucial for our scholarship, but they often rely on copyrighted BIOSes and ROMs that are, strictly speaking, illegal to possess, unless you somehow got the ROM from a legal copy of the hardware or software that you yourself already own.

]]> By: THATCamp 2010 » Blog Archive http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-78 Wed, 05 May 2010 11:44:40 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-78 […] programs and games using the original ROMs). As I wrote in a comment to John’s post on Hacking Ethics for Edupunks, these emulators are crucial for our scholarship, but they often rely on copyrighted BIOSes and […]

]]> By: patrickmj http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-76 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:13:32 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-76 I’d love to hear the conversation about this, especially around the DMCA/Fair Use conflict at the heart of it. Much agreed that educators need to reassert Fair Use principles in general!

]]> By: Amanda French http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-74 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:51:34 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-74 Dude, I literally didn’t remember that you *wrote* that article, John, and I didn’t click through on your link above — all I remembered was that you tweeted “some article” about the iPad that was better than the rest of them: insightful and well-written and balanced, in short. Ten points to you and minus two to me.

]]> By: John Jones http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-75 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:44:50 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-75 I’ll take all the points I can get.

]]> By: johnmjones http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-73 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:40:16 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-73 Boone,

I’m bringing my iPad, cred be damned 🙂

]]> By: johnmjones http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-72 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:39:33 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-72 Amanda,

I understood. 🙂

Here’s the link.

]]> By: Amanda French http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-71 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:36:29 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-71 And by the way I didn’t mean that this session idea was boring — far from it! I’m absolutely interested in the educational ethics of hacking closed systems, including the iPad. I just got bored with people talking about *Apple’s* ethics or lack thereof with regard to making the iPad a closed system.

]]> By: Amanda French http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-70 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:16:58 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-70 I got kind of bored with the whole iPad closed/open discussion, myself, but you did link to some article about it on Twitter that I thought was interesting, John. Can you re-post that here if you remember which one I’m talking about?

]]> By: boonebgorges http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-69 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:27:33 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=139#comment-69 This is a great idea for a session. There’s a pretty good chance I’ll have an iPad by the time THATCamp rolls around, but If I don’t have it hacked by then, I probably won’t bring it – don’t want to diminish my geek cred 🙂

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