Digital Democratization and Anti-Democratization Under the Law

Critical Theory B | Fall 2018 DIGITAL DEMOCRATIZATION, DIGITAL ANTI-DEMOCRATIZATION Instructor: Dale Carrico: dcarrico@sfai.edu, ndaleca@gmail.com Course Blog: https://digidemosunderlaw.blogspot.com/2017/06/our-syllabus.html Meetings: July 3-August 11, 2017, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 2-4.30pm, 140 Barrows Hall   Rough Basis for Final Grade (subject to contingencies): Participation/Attendance, 10%; Reading Notebook, 10%; Co-Facilitation, 10%; Toulmin/Precis, 10%; Symposium Presentation, 10%; Final Paper, 10pp. 50%                 Course Description How did the promise of peer-to-peer participatory democracy devolve into twitter harassment, doxxing, toxic comment sections, and zero comments? Is techno-progressive "disruption" merely reactionary deregulation, venture capitalist "innovation" merely marketing hyperbole, futurological "acceleration" merely social precarization, tech's vaunted "sharing economy" merel