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INSTRUCTORS:
Paul Duguid
Geoffrey
Nunberg
Assignments
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CLASSES:
August 29
Questions of Quality & Infoenthusiasms
Geoff's
slides
Paul's
slides
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September 5:
Quantity vs Quality
(1): Quantity
reading
Varian, Hal & Peter Lyman. 2003. How Much Information 2003 -- Executive Summary
optional
Brown, John Seely & Paul Duguid. 2000. "Limits to Information",
Chapter 1 in John Seely Brown & Paul Duguid, The Social Life of
Information. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press: pp 11-34.
Nunberg, Geoffrey. 1996. Farewell to the Information Age, in G. Nunberg
(ed.)
The Future of the Book. Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press.
assignment
Geoff's
slides
Paul's
slides
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September 12:
Quantity vs Quality
(2):Quality & Rotten Information
reading
"Youth, Pornography, and the Internet"
National
Research Council report
Read Intro, pp. 17-83, 201-216, 267-303.
Slides
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September 19:
Economics, information, and quality
reading
Hayek, Frederich. 1945. "The Use of Knowledge in Society,"American
Economic Review 35 (September): 519-30 [JSTOR]
and
Romer, Paul. 1993. "Idea Gaps and Object Gaps in Economic Development"
Journal of Monetary Economics 32(3): 543-573 [Science
Direct]
optional
Marshall, Alfred. 1890. "Industrial Organization, Continued; The
Concentration of Specialized Industries in Particular Locastion. Book
IV Chapter X in Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics. London. Macmillan.
Slides
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September 27:
Literacy
reading
Harvey Graff. 1993. "Literacy,
myths, and legacies: Lessons from the past/thoughts for the future,"
Interchange 24(3).
and
Stanley Wilder. 2005. "Information
Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions." Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan
7.
Also:
Review the material on "information
literacy" presented by
American Library Association
and
American Council of Research Libraries.
Click around until you have a sense of how librarians have been
thinking about this stuff.
assignment
circulated to quality@ischool
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October 3:
Authors, authority, & reputation: then & now
reading
Foucault, Michel. 1979. 'What Is an Author?' in J. Harari (ed.), Textual
Strategies: Perspectives in Post-Structuralist Criticism. Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, pp: 141-160.
and
Hoover, J. Nicholas. 2007. "Web Credibility: Hard Earned, Harder to Prove."Information
Week(Jul)y.
Paul's
slides
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October 10:
The dictionary: then & now
reading
Lynch, Clifford. 2001. The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World First Monday 6(6)
Mckean, Erin. 2007. Redefining the Dictionary TED
If you like, in the interest of general cultural edification, you might also look at:
http://www.british-library.uk/learning/images/texts/dict/transcript1387.html
Geoff's
slides
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October 17:
From the press to the blog: journalism then and now
reading
"Goodbye to Gutenberg" 2006. Nieman Reports,
60(4)
choose one or more articles from this collection on the future of the
press; be prepared to defend or attack it or them in class.
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October 24:
From the press to the blog: journalism then and now (continued)
Paul's
slides
proposals for final papers due
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October 31:
Print Culture & Beyond: then & now Paul's
slides
reading
Kelly, Kevin. 2006. "Scan This Book!" New York Times, May 14.
and
reading
Benkler, Yochai. 2006. A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge, pp 1-34
in The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets
and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press. Download under Creative Commons Licence.
optional
Wilkinson, Dennis M. and Bernardo H. Huberman. 2007. Assessing the Value of Cooperation in Wikipedia, First
Monday 12(4)
and
Errors in the Encyclopaedia Britannica That Have Been
Corrected in Wikipedia
and
Updike, John. 2006 "The End of Authorship," New York Times,
June 24
assignment
report on your work on Wikipedia
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November 7:
Visitor: Mike Dixon, Google News
reading
tba
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November 14:
Intellectual Property as Quality Assurance Paul's
slides
reading
Mark Helprin, 2007. "A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn't Its Copyright?"
New York Times, May 20.
and
Hesse, Carla. 2002. The Rise of Intellectual Property, 700 B.C.- A.D.
2000: An Idea in the Balance, Daedalus (Spring): 26-45.
optional
Barlow, John Perry. 1994. The Economy of Ideas: A Framework for Patents and
Copyrights in the Digital Age. (Everything You Know about Intellectual
Property Is Wrong). Wired 2.03, March.
Leonhardt, David. 2007. "When Trust in an Expert is Unwise" New York Times , November 7.
"The Not-Google Phone" New York Times , November 7.
outlines of final papers due
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November 21:
Discussion class
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November 28:
Civility and the Public Sphere
reading
tbd
final papers due
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December 5:
Presentation of final papers and discussion
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