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INFOSYS 290: The Quality of Information
Paul Duguid & Geoffrey Nunberg
Provisional Reading List
Texts marked "[R]" are in the reader
August 31: Infoenthusiasms
Kinsey, Michael. 2005. Cybercreeps Run Amok: Internet Libertarians Should Learn Civil Discourse Washington Post, Sunday, July 24.
September 7:
Quantity vs Quality
(1): Quantity
Varian, Hal & Peter Lyman. 2003. How Much Information -- Executive Summary
Nunberg, Geoffrey. 1996. Farewell to the Information Age, in G. Nunberg (ed.)
The Future of the Book. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. [read to page 21]
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.
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Peters, John Durham. 1999. Introduction: The Problem of Communication, pp 1-32 in John Durham Peters, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 1-32.
Weaver, Warren. 1964 [1949]. Introductory note, in Claud E. Shannon & Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana, IL:
University of Illinois Press, pp. 1-28.
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September 14:
Quantity vs Quality
(2): Quality and "rotten
information"
Mallon, Thomas. 2001. Afterword in Thomas Mallon, Stolen Words 2d Edition. San Diego: Harcourt, pp 239-253. [R]
Deterring, Detecting, and Dealing with Student Plagiarism. Final report of the UK Joint Information Systems Committee on Plagiarism, Feb 2005.
Some web sites addressing quality:
Teaching legal professionals how to do research
Assessing medical information on the net
Dr Bob's quality page
UCLA library
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Lessig, Larry. 2002. Free, Chapter 1 in Larry Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. New York: Random House, pp. 3-16. [R]
Loewenstein, Joseph. 2002. Authentic Reproduction in The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp 249-262.
Rajagopal, Indhu & Nis Bojin. 2002. Digital Representation: Racism on the World Wide Web. First Monday 7.10. October.
Ricks, Christopher. 2003. Plagiarism in P. Kewes (ed.),
Plagiarism in Early Modern England. London: Palgrave.
Sokal, Alan. 1996. A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies.
Lingua Franca, May/June.
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September 21:
Economics, information, and quality
Akerlof, George A. 1970. 'The Market for Lemons: Quality, Uncertainty, and the Market Mechanism,' Quarterly Journal of Economics, 84: 488-500. JSTOR
Stigler, George J. 1961. 'The Economics of Information,' Journal of Political Economy, 69(3): 213-225. JSTOR
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Arrow, Kenneth J. 1984. Information and Economic Behavior in K. Arrow, Collected Papers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp: 136-152.
Boyle, James. 1996. Information Economics, chapter 4 in James Boyle, Shamans, Software, & Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, pp. 35-46. [R]
Casson, Mark. 1997. Information and Organization: A New Perspective on the Theory of the Firm. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Foray, Dominique. 2004. Economics of Knowledge. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.
Hayek, Freidrich A. von. 1945. The Use of Knowledge in Society. American Economic Review 35(September): 519-30. JSTOR
Machlup, Fritz. 1962. The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States.
Simon, Herbert A. 1999. The Many Shapes of Knowledge. Revue d'Economie Industrielle88: 23-39.
Tuomi, Ilkka. 2000. Data Is More Than Knowledge: Implications of the Reversed Knowledge Hierarchy for Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory. Journal of Management Information Systems 16 (3): 103-118
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September 28:
Authors, authority, & reputation in the world of print
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. [R]
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AHR Forum. 2002. How Revolutionary Was the Print Revolution? American Historical Review 107(1): 84-129.
Grafton, Anthony, Introduction
Eisenstein, Elizabeth, An Unacknowledged Revolution
Johns, Adrian, How to Acknowledge a Revolution
Eisenstein, Elizabeth, Reply
HISTORY COOP
Boyle, James. 1996. Preface in James Boyle, Shamans, Software, & Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press: pp ix-xvi. [R]
Chartier, Roger. 2003. Foucault?s Chiasmus: Authorship between Science and Literature in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, in Mario Biagioli & Peter Galison (eds.), Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual Property in Science. New York: Routledge, pp: 13-32.
Habermas, Jurgen. 1989. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kernan, Alvin. 1989 Printing, Bookselling, Readers, and Writers in Eighteenth-Century London, pp 48-90 in Samuel Johnson & the Impact of Print. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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October 5:
Newspapers to blogs and the constitution of the "public sphere"
Carr, David. 2005. A Story Better Told in Print. New York Times, September 26
Daou, Peter. 2005. The Triangle: Limits of Blog Power. Salon.com.
Falcone, Michael. 2003. Does an Editors Pencil Ruin a Web Log. New York Times, September 29.
Fallows, James. 2004. The Twilight of the Information Middlemen
New York Times, May 15.
Rosen, Jay. 2004. "No One Owns Journalism."
Sullivan, Andrew. 2003. Blog Revolution. Wired 10.05 May.
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Barker, Hannah. 1998. Newspapers, Politics, and Public Opinion in Late Eighteenth-Century England. Oxford: Clarendon.
Conboy, Martin. 2004. Journalism: A Critical History. London: Sage.
Dahlgren, Peter. 2001. The Public Sphere and the Net: Structure, Space, and Communication in W. Lance Bennett and Robert M. Entman. (eds.), Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 33-55.
Habermas, Jurgen. 1989. Political Functions of the Public Sphere, & The Bourgeois Public Sphere: Idea and Ideology, (part III) in Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp 57-88.
Lippman, Walter. 1997 (1922). Newspapers, part 7 of Walter Lippman, Public Opinion. New York: Free Press.
Schudson, Michael. 1978. Stories of Information & Objectivity becomes Ideology in Michael Schudson, Discovering the News. New York: Basic Books.
Starr, Paul. 2004. Capitalism and Democracy in Print in Paul Starr, The Creation of the Media: Political Origin of Modern Communications. New York: Basic Books, pp 113-150. [R]
Stephens, Mitchell. 1988. A History of News. New York:Penguin.
Trippi, Joe. 2004. Seizing Power in the Internet Age in Joe Trippi, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. New York: Regan Books (Harper/Collins), pp 201-236.
Williams, Raymond. 1961. The Growth of the Popular Press in Raymond Williams, The Long Revolution. London: Chatto & Windus, pp 173-214.
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October 12:
Forms of knowledge: the dictionary
McArthur, Tom. 1986. Worlds of Reference: Lexicography, Learning, and Language from the Clay Tablet to the Computer. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp 93-109 & 124-141. [R]
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Pang, Alex Soonjung-Kim. 1998. The Work of the Encyclopaedia in the Age of Electronic Reproduction, First Monday, September.
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October 19:
Forms of authority
Mehegan, David. 1992. Words to Live By (review of American Heritage Dictionary). Boston Globe, Sunday, August 9.
Reid, T.R. 1987. Brave new Words: A Dictionary for Today (review of Random House Dictionary). Washington Post, Sunday, November 8.
Weeks, Linton. 2001. Dueling Dictionaries: New Encarta Has Lexicographers Ready to Rhetorically Rumble (review of Encarta College Dictionary). Washington Post, Thursday, June 28.
reviews of The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:in The Times Literary Supplement:
Barker, Nicolson, The Biographists' Tales;
Gross, John, Feminine Wills;
Goldman, Lawrence, No Smoking Dons:
The ODNB and the New Structures of Knowledge
TLS, 10 Dec, 2004 and 4 Feb, 2005
Brown, Patrick. 2004. Vantage Point, Stanford Report Feb 24
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Bush, Vannevar. 1945. As We May Think, Atlantic Monthly, July
Frohmann, Bernd. 2004. Literary Technologies of Science in Bernd Frohmann, Deflating Information: From Science Studies to Documentation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 159-198. [R]
Ziman, John M. 1967. Public Knowledge: An Essay Concering the Social Dimension of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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October 26:
Intellectual property
Duguid, Paul. "Brands in Chains" MS (October 24, 2003)
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Hesse, Carla. 2002. The Rise of Intellectual Property, 700 B.C.- A.D. 2000: An Idea in the Balance, Daedalus (Spring): 26-45.
Posner, Richard. 2002. The Law & Economics of Intellectual Property, Daedalus (Spring): 5-12.
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.
III. Applications
November 2:
Search
tba
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November 9:
Literacy
Association of College and Research Libraries, Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
Fogg, B.J. et al. 2001. What Makes Web Sites Credible? A Report on a Large Quantitative Study. CHI 3(1): 61-68.
Nunberg, Geoffrey. 2004. Teaching Students to Swim in the Online Sea. New York Times, Sunday, Feb 13.
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November 16:
Libraries
DeLong, J. Bradford. 2003 Any Text. Anytime. Anywhere. (Any Volunteers?): The Mechanics of a Universal Library are Simple. The Tricky Part: Harnessing the Free Labour. Wired 11.02.
DeLong, J. Bradford. 2005. Where's My Access to the Universal Online Library of Humanity?: It's heeerrrreee! Actually, it's not here yet. But it's coming.
[April 26]
optional
Duguid, Paul. 2004. PG Tips, TLS June 11,p. 13
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November 23:
Discussion class
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November 30:
Open Source
Weber, Steven. 2004. The Code that Changed the World in Steven Weber, The Success of Open Source. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, pp 224-272. [R]
Benkler, Yochai. 2002-3. Coase's Penguin and the Nature of the Firm. Yale Law Journal. 112.
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December 7:
Presentation of final papers and discussion
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