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Info 218: Concepts of Information Spring 2012

School of Information, UC Berkeley, Spring 2012
Paul Duguid, Geoffrey Nunberg, instructors

Syllabus

(Full references, links, and additional sources are listed on the Readings page)

Week 1
17 Jan: Introduction

19 Jan: Exercise: I-School Identities


Week 2
24 Jan: Playing With Words: "Technology," "Platform," and Other "Keywords"

26 Jan: Exercise: Producing and Consuming Information


Week 3
31 Jan:
How Much Information?

2 Feb: History of "Information"—1


Week 4
7 Feb: History of "Information"—2

9 Feb: The "Public," the Public Sphere, and Public Opinion


Week 5
14 Feb: From the Bourgeois Public Sphere to the Internet

16 Feb: Exercise: Public Opinion


Week 6
21 Feb: Information and the State

23 Feb: Information and the Organization


Week 7
28 Feb: Information and Objectivity

1 Mar: Exercise: Objectivity


Week 8
6 Mar: Information and Political Science

8 Mar: Exercise: Political Science


Week 9
13 Mar: Information and the Organization of Knowledge

15 Mar: Exercise: The Internet and the Organization of Knowledge

Final Paper/Project Proposals Due


Week10
20 Mar: Theories of Information—1

22 Mar: Information, Economics, and Development

Week 11
Midterm break

- No classes -

Week 12
3 April: Information, Economics, and Development—2

5 Apr: Theories of Information—2


Week 13
10 Apr: Information and Cognitive science—1


12 Apr: Discussion: Outline of Finals Papers/Projects


Week 14
17 Apr: Information and Cognitive Science—2: Critique

19 Apr: Literacy, then and now


Week 15
24 Apr: Searching for Information

26 Apr: Wrap: Has This Course Provided Any Information?


Week 16: Reading Week
1 May: Final Paper/Project Presentations


11 May: Final Paper/Project Due