1: The Fall of Dot-Communism
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Aug. 30
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Introduction to the course
Recent news items (PC)
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| Sep. 6 |
From Robert Schiller, Irrational Exuberance (PC)
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Lottery in Babylon" (PC)
>position paper #1 |
2: The Vision Thing
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| Sep. 13 |
Cluetrain Manifesto (complete)
From Ted Nelson, Literary Machines (PC)
*John Perry Barlow,
"Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"
>article topic selection
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| Sep. 20 |
From Gareth Branwyn, Jamming the Media (PC)
*From Howard Rheingold,
Virtual Communities (chapter 2)
*Vannevar Bush,
"As We May Think"
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3: Perspective
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| Sep. 27 |
Peter F. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, through p. 109
From Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation (PC)
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| Oct. 4 |
Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, complete
From Jeremy Rifkin, The End of Work (PC)
>position paper #2
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4: Media and Culture
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| Oct. 11 |
Paul Krugman, "The Fear Economy" (PC)
Donna Haraway, "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" (PC)
From Pierre Levy, Collective Intelligence (PC)
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| Oct. 18 |
Class does not meet. |
5: Media, Property, and Code
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| Oct. 25 |
From Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (PC)
From Mark Poster, The Second Media Age (PC)
Jean Baudrillard, "Simulacra and Simulations" (PC)
>annotated bibliographies
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| Nov. 1 |
From Andy Oram, ed. Peer-tro-Peer (PC)
*Richard Stallman,
"The GNU Manifesto"
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6: As Some May Think
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| Nov. 8 |
Tim Berners-Lee, "The Semantic Web" (PC)
From Michael Dertouzos, The Unfinished Revolution (PC)
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| Nov. 15 |
From Thomas Davenport and John Beck, The Attention Economy (PC)
*From
The Cathedral and the Bazaar,
chapters entitled "Homesteading the Noosphere" and "The Magic Cauldron."
>draft of article
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| Nov. 22 |
No Meeting: Thanksgiving |
7: Where We All Go To Die
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| Nov. 29 |
Bruce Sterling, Distraction (first half)
From Kevin Kelly, Out of Control (PC) |
| Dec. 6 |
Bruce Sterling, Distraction (complete)
Sean Carton, from The Dot-Bomb Survival Guide (PC)
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| Dec. 13 |
Class does not meet
>final version of article
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