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Previous week
September 15: Quantity vs Quality (2):
Quality, fraud, plagiarism, and hoax--manifestations of "rotten information"
Class slides
Primary Reading
Loewenstein, Joseph. 2002. Authentic Reproduction, pp 249-262 in *The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lyman, Peter and Hal R. Varian,How Much Information--Executive Summary, How Much Information", 2003. Retrieved from http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info-2003
Mallon, Thomas. Afterword, pp 239-253 in *Stolen Words. New York: Harvest Books.
Ricks, Christopher. 2003. Plagiarism, pp 21-40 in P. Kewes, ed., *Plagiarism in Early Modern England. London: Palgrave.
Rajagopal, Indhu & Nis Bojin. 2002. Digital Representation: Racism on the World Wide Web. First Monday 7.10. October.
Sokal, Alan. 1996. A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies. Lingua Franca, May/June.
Secondary Reading
Eric Allman, The Economics of Spam, ACM Queue 1(9) Dec/Jan 2003-4.
Anderson, David. 2001. SETI@home, pp: 67-76 in A. Oram ed., Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Benefits of a Disruptive Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Chartrand, Sabra. 2004. New Way to Combat Online Piracy. New York Times. May 17.
Friess, Steve. 2003. "He Made a Fatal Error". Newsweek. January 14.
Game "Virus" Bites Mobile Phones. BBC Website.
Horn, John, et al. 2003. Point and Bet. Newsweek. October 28.
Levy, Steven. 2003. Pirates of the Internet. Newsweek. August 3.
Ricks, Christopher. The Moral Imbecility of a Would-be Wunderkind. Saturday Review. January 15, pp 31-33 & 49.
Rogers, Michael. 2003. Practical Futurist: Are Computers Wrecking Schools. Newsweek. Oct 14.
Schenker, Jennifer L. et al. 2002. Busting Software Pirates. Time. November 18.
Schwartz, John. 2004. On the Web, Vengance is Mine (and Mine). New York Times. March 28.
Stone, Brad. 2002. Is the Boss Watching? Newsweek. September 30.
Stone, Brad, et al. 2003. Soaking in Spam. Newsweek. December 8.
Taylor, Chris. 2002. What Spies Beneath. Time. October 7.
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