Course Overview
| Instructor: | Nancy
Kaplan, Professor
School of Information Arts and Technologies 102 Charles Royal, 410.837.5319 nkaplan@ubalt.edu iat.ubalt.edu/kaplan |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays 6:00 - 8:00 PM and by appointment |
Required Texts
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Benkler, Yochai, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0300110561
Also available online at http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php/Main_Page.
Berger, Arthur Asa, Media and Communication Research Methodologies: Introdcution to Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Sage Publicatons, 2000. ISBN: 0761918531
Lessig, Lawrence, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity [PDF]
Katz, James E., and Ronald E. Rice, Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and Interaction. MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 0262112698
Handouts and online readings TBA
Description and Objectives
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Acquaint students with ways of thinking seriously about the intersection of technology, society, and culture.
Explore key issues that emerge from this intersection, especially in the areas of intellectual property, privacy, and political culture.
Familiarize students with scholarly research and writing practices appropriate to postgraduate study.
Assignments and Grade Components
There are two small and two major assignments for this course. Work may be turned in as Word documents, as pdf documents, or as html documents but in all cases must be deposited on the student server in your directory and you must have a correct link to each assignment on your directory's home page (or on a subsidiary page devoted to this course). Your goal is to make my work easy!
| assignment | weight |
| blog | 15% |
| midterm exam | 30% |
| research design | 15% |
| research report | 40% |
Additional Policies
A statement of general academic policies appears on my Web site. That statement is an extension of this document. See http://iat.ubalt.edu/kaplan/policies.htm.Please also read the University's policies in the Student Handbook.
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