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This schedule is provisional. It will change frequently and without notice.
Always use the latest online version (www.tomandmaria.com/110/schedule.htm)
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Week |
Topic |
Readings/Assignments |
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1) 24-JAN |
Introduction to course |
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2) 31-JAN |
Information Concepts
(Discussion questions here)
(Slides
from class here) |
Lester & Koehler, Chapters 1, 2 and 3
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3) 7-FEB |
Information
Storage and Retrieval 1:
Database Management Systems
(Discussion questions here)
(Slides from class
here)
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Lester & Koehler, Chapter 4
Koch, Christopher. "The Integration
Nightmare: Sounding the Alarm", CIO Magazine, November 15, 1996.
(Online) |
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4) 14-FEB |
Information
Storage and Retrieval 2:
Online Information Systems & Digital Libraries
(Discussion
questions here) |
Wolf, Gary. "The Great Library of Amazonia,"
Wired Magazine, 11:12, December 2003.
(Online)
Chu, H. (2003) Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age
(Medford: Information Today). (Password) |
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5) 21-FEB |
Information
Storage and Retrieval 3: Search Engines
(Discussion questions here) |
Finish the Chu article from week 4.
Nunberg, Geoffrey. "Teaching Students to Swim in
the Online Sea," New York Times, February 13, 2005.
(Password)
McHugh, Josh. "Google vs. Evil", Wired Magazine,
11:01, January 2003.
(online)
Hansell, Saul. "The Search Engine That Isn't a
Verb, Yet", New York Times, February 22, 2004.
(Password)
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6) 28-FEB |
Social Institutions & Electronic Publishing
(Discussion questions here) |
Lester & Koehler, Chapter 5
Glaser, Sarah. "An Idea Whose Time Has Come Back,"
New York Times, December 5, 2004.
(password)
Lichtenberg, James. "Rising from the Dead,"
Publishers Weekly, October 6, 2003.
(password)
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7) 7-MAR |
Digital Rights
Management
(Discussion questions here)
(Slides from
class here) |
Howe, Jeff. "Licensed to Bill," Wired
Magazine 9:10, October 2001.
(online)
Lessig, Lawrence. "Adobe in Wonderland," The
Industry Standard, September 8, 2001.
(online) -- there are two pages, you need to click "next" to read the
second one.
Anonymous, "What Can I Reproduce from a
Copyrighted Work Without Permission?", University of Pennsylvania Library
Website
(online) |
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8) 14-MAR |
No class. |
Prepare for midterm and paper. |
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9) 21-MAR |
Spring Break |
Enjoy the break. Catch up on things. |
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10) 28-MAR |
MIDTERM
EXAMINATION
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First Paper Due |
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11) 4-APR |
Virtual Communities (Discussion
Questions here) |
Rheingold, Howard. "A Slice of My Life in My Virtual Community", in Ludlow,
Peter (ed.) High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in
Cyberspace. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1996. 413-436.
(online)
Dibbell, Julian "The Unreal Estate Boom," Wired 11:1, January 2003.
(online) |
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12) 11-APR |
(rescheduled) |
Class cancelled due to blizzard in Denver. |
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13) 18-APR |
Networks and Places
(Discussion
Questions here)
(Slides
from class here) |
Garfinkel, Simson. "Welcome to
Sealand. Now Bugger Off." Wired 8:7, July 2002.
(online)
Berlind, Willam. "Bookies in
Exile," New York Times, August 17 2003.
(password)
Lessig, Lawrence. Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books,
1999. Ch 6: Cyberspaces (63-84).
(password) |
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14) 25-APR |
Spam
in the Information Society
(Discussion Questions here)
(Slides from class
here) |
"Confessions of a Spam King," New
York Times, September 28, 2003.
(password)
Husted, Bill and Hardie, Ann. "Spam Wars Play Out Across Internet", Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, 14 December 2003.
(password)
Stross, Randall. "How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp"
(password) Lester & Koehler,
Chapter 9 |
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15) 02-MAY |
Information and Inequality
(Discussion Questions here)
(Slides from
class here) |
Benton
Foundation, "The Digital Divide," The Digital Beat, Vol 1, No. 8, July
1999.
(online)
Wright, Robert. "Our Gang," The
New Republic, 14 February 2000.
(online)
Warschauer, Mark. "Demystifying the Digital Divide," Scientific American,
August 2003.
(password)
Anonymous,
"Beyond the Digital Divide" and "Behind the Digital Divide", The Economist,
March 12, 2005 (password) |
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16) 09-MAY |
Information Futures
& Careers
(Discussion Questions here) |
Pratt, Mary K. "Getting
Started in IT", Computerworld, April 18, 2005.
(online) Anonymous, "Tips
for Getting Started in IT", Computerworld, April 18, 2005.
(online) Capell, Peri, "A
Recruiter's Search Tips for Technical Candidates", CareerJournal.com,
April 2004.
(online) Ryan, Vincent. "Tech
Jobs: Looking Into Windows", Enterprise Windows IT, February 13, 2004.
(online)
Plus: Careers-oriented
presentation by Pa Moua, Advisor for the BSIR program |
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17) 16-MAY |
Final examination |
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21-MAY |
Second Paper due |
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