I'm hoping to make it to C4L this year and yes, this would be a good topic for a BOF discussion.
> On Nov 29, 2016, at 2:59 PM, Salazar, Christina <christina.sala...@csuci.edu> > wrote: > > @Eric Hellman, Will Denton, Michelle, Karen Coyle, etc. > > I REALLY want to have this conversation AND the post election statement > conversation in person en masse at C4L2017. C4L does plenty of socializing > stuff, but I believe that it's time for us to come together during "official" > conference time to kind of think, talk and write about how we want to (or > don't) identify as a community. > > I'm willing moderate if no one else wants to but I just feel like WE NEED TO > TALK WITH each other, rather than e-mail AT each other. There's been some > very thought provoking topics here recently. > > Thoughts anyone? > Christina (Who Are You? I really wanna know.) Salazar > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdLIerfXuZ4 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Eric > Hellman > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 9:28 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Post-election reflections for Code4Lib > > I'm sure we've all read articles about the fake news that circulates in an > information environment anchored by social media, and the relation of that > information environment to the election. > > Libraries are participants in this new information enviroment, so I have some > questions. > > 1. Do libraries understand the algorithms and metadata that guide search > results and suggestions in the services they provide? Do these algorithms > reproduce biases in our society? > 2. Are libraries provide compelling enough services to be meaningful and > reliable participants in public discourse? > 3. When libraries connect their services to social networks (for example with > a Facebook "Like" button) are they making user's the information environment > better or worse? > 4. With many users fearing a more authoritarian state, are libraries > providing services that are safe from surveillance by commercial or > government entities? > > > Eric Hellman > President, Free Ebook Foundation > Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/ > https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ > twitter: @gluejar
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