Revised: April 4, 1997

April 5, 1997 -- Week 1

No readings due.

April 12, 1997 - Week 2 - Introduction

[1] Kling, R. (Ed.) (1996). Technological Utopianism and Anti-Utopianism. From Computerization and Controversy. Second edition. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

[2] Norman, D. (1996). Things that Make Us Smart. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Chapter one, A Human Centered Technology.

[3] Rheingold, H. (1993). Chapter three: Visionaries and Convergences: The Accidental History of the Net. In The Virtual Community. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

April l9, 1997 - Week 3 - Media I

[4] Hiltz, S. and Turoff, M. (1993). "A Communications System Morphology" in The Network Nation (revised Edition). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

[5] Rosen, J. and Merritt, Jr., D. (1994). Public Journalism: Theory and Practice. Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation.

[In Schuler] . Chapter seven: Information and Communication.

[6] McChesney, R. (1996). The Internet and the Future of Democracy. In Media & Democracy. Hazen, D. and Smith, L. (Eds.) (1996). San Francisco, CA: The Institute for Alternative Journalism.

April 26, 1997 - Week 4 - Media II

[In Brook and Boal] Besser, H. (1995). From Internet to Information Superhighway.

[In Brook and Boal] Drew, J. (1995) Media Activism and Radical Democracy.

[7] Gerbner, G. (1994, July). Television Violence: The Art of Asking the Wrong Question. The World & I.

[8] Beacham, F. (1996). Will the Internet Become the Next Mass Medium? In Media & Democracy. Hazen, D. and Smith, L. (Eds.) (1996). San Francisco, CA: The Institute for Alternative Journalism.

[9] Frank, T. (1996). Why Johnny Can't Dissent. In Media & Democracy. Hazen, D. and Smith, L. (Eds.) (1996). San Francisco, CA: The Institute for Alternative Journalism.

May 3, 1997 - Week 5 - Economic Trends

[10] Davis, J. (1993, Fall). Computers and the Poor: A Brand New Poverty. The CPSR Newsletter. Palo Alto, CA: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

[11] Borgstrom, A. (1997). Civic Networking for Community Economic Development: Acenet's Approach. In Community Space and Cyberspace. Conference proceedings. Page & Schuler (Eds.). Palo Alto, CA: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

[In Schuler] Chapter six: Economic Equity, Opportunity, and Sustainability.

[12] Schwartz, E. (1994). Telecommunications and Economic Development: Creating the Relationships. Reston, VA: The Morino Institute.

May 10, 1997 - Week 6 - Computing at Work

[13] Bowers, J. (1995, July - September). Making it Work: A Field Study of a "CSCW Network" . The Information Society.

[In Brook and Boal] Henwood, D. (1995). Info Fetishism

[14] Lerner, S. The future of work. Futures. March, 1994. Also published as "The future of work in North America: good jobs, bad jobs, beyond jobs
( http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/discussions/cpsr/jobtech/future-of-work.html).

[15] Piller, C. (1993, July). Bosses with x-ray eyes and Perils for Privacy. Macworld.

May 17, 1997 - Week 7 - Privacy and Civil Liberties

[In Brook and Boal] Gandy, O. (1995). It's Discrimination, Stupid!

[16] Kapor, M. (Sept. 1991). Civil Liberties in Cyberspace, Scientific American.

[17] Lange, L. (June 17 & June 24, 1996). Internet privacy, workplace surveillance, and censorship and monitoring by employers and the government. EE Times.

• http://techweb.cmp.com/eet/special/bigbro.html
• http://techweb.cmp.com/eet/special/bigbro2.html

May 24, 1997 - Week 8 - Institutionalization

[18] Ladd, J. (1995). The Quest for a Code of Professional Ethics: An Intellectual and Moral Confusion. In Computers, Ethics, and Social Values. Edited by Johnson, D. and Nissenbaum, H.

[19] Miller, S. (1996). Civilizing Cyberspace. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Chapter seven, The Players and Their Plans.

[20] Pool, I. (1983). Technologies of Freedom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Chapter nine: Policies for Freedom.

May 31, 1997 - Week 9 - Global Village?

[21] Drake, W., and Schiller, H. (1994). Policy for the Global Information Infrastructure, in DIAC-94 Conference Proceedings. Edited by Klein, H. and Whitcomb, C. Palo Alto, CA: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

[22] McKnight, L. (1994). Public Services for the Global Information Infrastructure. In Klein and Whitcomb (1994).

[In Brook and Boal] Schiller, H. (1995). The Global Information Highway: Project for an Ungovernable World

[23] Talbott, S. (1995). The Future Does Not Compute. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates. Chapter 9: Do We Really Want a Global Village?

June 7, 1997 - Week 10 - Spring Wrap-Up

[24] Eglash, R. (1997). Appropriating Technology: Illustrations from Anti-Racist Science Theory. Paper delivered at "Technology and Democracy" conference, Oslo, Norway, January, 1997.

[25] Various reviews (by Hunt, K., Dalziel, J., and Bainbridge, W.) of "The Future Does Not Compute" in The Information Society, July-September, 1996.

[In Brook and Boal] Sclove, R. (1995). Making Technology Democratic.

[26] Winner, L. (1996. Who will we be in cyberspace? Information Society. Jan - Mar, 1996.

[27] Various Authors. (Jan-March, 1996). Durango Declaration(s). Information

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