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# La platforme workshop outline

Intro, reiterating possibilities of networks. Questions since yesterday, if any (5-10 min)

```
* directed vs undirected
* binary vs weighted
* global vs local
* semantic meaning of trust
```

Discussion: What networks we use, how these properties manifest there (15-20 min)

Exercise 1 followed by discussion, either all together or in small groups (30-40 min): 
```
* What is a node on the network?
* What kinds of identies can we observe?
    * personal accounts
    * business accounts
    * group/shared accounts
    * alts
* Drawing activity: the different selves "you" contain
* How do you use these identities, are any of them private?
* Do they all know about each other?
* How permanent are they? Are any of them disposable?
* Semantic meanning of trust: could any of these be "fake"?
```

Exercise 2 followed by discussion, either all together or in small groups  (30-40 min):
```
* What is a connection on the network?
* Drawing activity 1: Pick 3 of your online "selves" and draw their most important connections as a graph
* What does trust mean in these drawings?
* Do the drawings overlap or are they different?
* Drawing activity 2: Pick one "self" and draw their connections in terms of who they would trust to
    * Recommend music
    * Censor/protect against hate speech or harassment
    * Talk about a personal/emotional problem with
    * Loan money to
* How do the networks connect to each other?
* Discuss the drawings in terms of their network structure: directedness, binariness, globality, etc
```

Space for reflections/questions (15-20)

`* Revisit the social media networks we use, as informed by the reflections on trust`

Lunch (1 hour)

Deep dive into use cases (1-1.25 hour):
```
* Trust in Circles UBI and Duniter
    * What is the strong set, what is "strongly-connected"? 
    * What else could we do with a government-independent identity layer?
    * PGP historically still uses state-based ID. Is the network enough, and for what applications?
    * public identity networks and surveillance
* Why do we want content moderation? Secure scuttlebutt, Trustnet
    * Discussion: censorship resistance vs content moderation. What is ideal? How does it intersect with identity? Relationship to global vs local trust
* Trust in blockchains, peers in peer-to-peer
    * Overlapping trust networks with different semantic meanings
    * Analyzing trust networks in DAOs: https://diamond.mirror.xyz/9mhfHWIFofZ0ZwWyKZJySC4b5sqKekT6hIpQ5lTh-vs
```

Optional extra activity, depending on time (15-20 min): Try out SSB, observe network visibility

Optional extra activity, depending on time (15-20 min): Try out circles

Gamification, incentives, and perverse incentives (5-10 min):
`* What do networks and social media platforms incentivize? Tensions of quantification`

The prisoner's dilemma (15-20 min):
```
* The game theory imaginary
* Exercise: play out the scenario and discuss
```

Extending the prisoner's dilemma in time and space (20-30 min):
```
* Intro the iterated prisoner's dilemma
* Exercise: play out the scenario and discuss
* Evolution of Cooperation: tit for tat and its parameters for success
* Intro to network games (majority game, best case public goods game)
* How do network patterns/connectedness shape time to change/gameplay?
```

Interface examples, with images (20-30 min):
```
* What do these interfaces tell us is important, what do they measure?
* How can we "read" interfaces?
```

Optional extra activity, depending on time (15-20 min): Play the economic trust game, discuss what it measures/means about trust



