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Week 1:
Introduction |
01-Sep |
Orientation Session |
(No readings this week) |
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03-Sep |
Early Computing |
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Discussion Session |
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Part I: The Cultures of Computing |
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Week 2:
Origins and Definitions of Hacker Culture
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05-Sep |
Origins of Interactive Computing |
Levy, Steve. Hackers: Heroes
of the Digital Revolution, Doubleday, 1984. Pages 17-77 (oncourse) & 108-128
(oncourse).
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08-Sep |
Microchips & Videogames |
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Discussion Session |
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Week 3:
Computers and the Masses |
15-Sep |
Evolution of the Personal Computer |
Levy, Steve. "A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge", in Tom
Forester, Computers
in the Human Context, MIT Press, 1991. Pages 318-326. (oncourse)
Winner, Langdon. "Mythinformation",
from Langdon
Winner, The Whale and the Reactor, University
of Chicago Press, 1986. (oncourse)
Steve Levy, Hackers, pages
187-231. (oncourse)
Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. "The End
of Innocence, Part I" in The War
of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Machine Age, MIT Press,
1995. Pages 123-155. (oncourse) |
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17-Sep |
Home Computing & Computer
Utopianism |
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Discussion Session |
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Week 4:
The View From the Inside
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22-Sept |
Home Computing Continued |
Coupland,
Douglas. Microserfs (Regan Books: 1995), chapter 1 (pages 1-42)
Read it on-line.
Kidder, Tracy. The Soul of a
New Machine (Little Brown: 1981), chapters 2, 3 & 6 (pages 33-65,
103-118). (oncourse)
Ullman, Ellen. Close to the
Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents, City Lights, 1997: pages
17-32 & 95-121. (oncourse) |
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24-Sept |
Inside the World of the Computer
and
Culture Concept |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 5: The Hacker Ethic Today |
29-Sept |
Linux and the Free Software
Movement |
Raymond, Eric. "The Cathedral and
the Bazaar," First Monday 3:3, March 1998.
(online)
Turkle, Sherry "Hackers: Loving the Machine for Itself" from The Second
Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1984) –
Chapter 6. (oncourse) Borsook,
Pauline,
”Cyberselfish” Mother Jones (July-August 1996).
(on-line) |
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01-Oct |
Is There a Downside? |
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Discussion Section |
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Part II: The
Information Society & The Internet |
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Week 6: The Internet |
06-Oct |
Development of the Internet |
Abbate, Janet. "By No Means
Complete or Perfect": The Network as Experienced by Early Users, chapter 3
of Inventing the Internet (Rutgers University Press, 1999). (Oncourse) Haigh, Thomas. "The Internet in
the 1990s," draft book chapter extract. (Oncourse) |
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08-Oct |
The Internet in the 1990s |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 7:
More Internet
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13-Oct |
Midterm Examination |
Steven Levy (2002) “Living in the Blogosphere.” from Newsweek,
August 26. (online)
Nielsen, Jakob. "The End of Legacy
Media" (August 23, 1998).
(online)
Lasica, J. D., "The Promise of the Daily Me", USC Annenberg Online
Journalism Review (02 April 2002).
(online) |
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15-Oct |
Internet & Media |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 8:
The Internet Goes Business |
20-Oct |
Internet Startups |
Kelly, Kevin. "New Rules for the
New Economy", Wired Magazine (1997).
(online)
Lewis, Michael. "The Search
Engine", New York Times, October 10, 1999.
(online) |
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22-Oct |
The New Economy |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 9:
The Information Society |
27-Oct |
Theories of the Information
Society |
Markoff, John. "White House E-Mail System Becomes Less User-Friendly,"
New York Times, July 18 2003. (Oncourse)
Warschauer, Mark. "Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide", First Monday
7:7 (July 200).
(online)
Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital, Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1995.
It's not on-line, so read these columns instead - they're what it's based
on.
Bits and Atoms
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One
Room Rural Schools,
Beyond
Digital |
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29-Oct |
The Digital
Divide |
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Discussion Section |
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Part III: Networks as Places |
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Week 10: Networks as Places |
03-Nov |
The Cyberspace Concept |
Gibson, William. "Burning
Chrome." Burning Chrome, Ace Books, 1986: 168-191. (Oncourse)
Lessig, Lawrence. Code, and
Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Ch 6: Cyberspaces
(63-84). (Oncourse)
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) |
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05-Nov |
Virtual Communities: The
Concept |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 11:
Life On-line |
10-Nov |
On-Line Community in Practice |
Turkle, Sherry "Virtuality and its Discontents: Searching for
Community in Cyberspace," The American Prospect no. 24 (Winter
1996): 50-57. (online)
Dibbell, Julian. "A Rape
in Cyberspace: or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two
Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society."
(online)
Schiesel, Seth. "Voyager to a Strange Planet," New York Times, June
12 2003. (Oncourse)
Dibbell, Julian "The Unreal Estate Boom," Wired 11:1, January 2003.
(online) |
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12-Nov |
Massively Multiplayer Online
Worlds |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 12
Intellectual Property |
17-Nov |
Intellectual Property and the
Computer |
Mann, Charles C. "Who Will Own
Your Next Great Idea," The Atlantic Monthly, September 1998. (Online
in three sections:
1
2
3)
Lessig, Lawrence. "The Internet
Under Siege," Foreign Policy Magazine, November 2001.
(online)
Harmon, Amy. "261 Lawsuits Filed
on Internet Music Sharing," and Lohr, Steve. "Fighting the Idea That All the
Internet Is Free," both New York Times, September 9, 2003. (Oncourse)
Gates, Bill ”An Open Letter to Hobbyists”
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html |
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19-Nov |
File Swapping and the Law |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 13
Digital Outlaws |
24-Nov |
Hackers and Spammers
Deadline for paper drafts to receive feedback (optional). |
"Confessions of a Spam King,"
New York Times, September 28, 2003. (Oncourse)
Rimer, Sara. "A Campus Fad That's Being Copied:
Internet Plagiarism," New York Times, September 3 2003. (Oncourse) |
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26-Nov |
No Class -- Thanksgiving
Break |
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No Discussion |
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Week 14
Privacy |
01-Dec |
The Changing Meaning of Privacy |
Lessig, Lawrence. Code, and
Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Ch 11: Privacy
(141-163).
(Oncourse)
Garfinkel, Simon. "Database
Nation" (O'Reilly, 2000), ch. 4 &5 (pages 69-126).
(Oncourse)
Penenberg, Adam L. "The Surveillance Society," Wired 9:12 (December 2001).
(online) |
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03-Dec |
Routine Data Logging |
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Discussion Section
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Week 15: Digital Nation |
08-Dec |
International Issues 1
Guest Lecture: Prof. Christine
Ogan Term Paper Due in Section Meeting |
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.
(Oncourse) |
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10-Dec |
International Issues 2 |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 16 |
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Final Examination |
10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Mon.,
December 15 |
