Syllabus
i203 SPRING 2010
SECTION 1: THE SOCIAL SIDE OF INFORMATION
WEEK 1: Course Introduction
- Chapters 1 and 2 in Brown, John Seely and Paul Duguid. 2000. The Social Life of Information. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. Read online: Chapter 1, Chapter 2
- Ackerman, Mark S. 2000. “The intellectual challenge of CSCW: the gap between social requirements and technical feasability.” Human Computer Interaction 15:179-203. PDF
WEEK 2: Social Implications of Information Technology: The Telephone
- Chapters 1 and 3 in Fischer, C.S. (1992). America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Berkeley, University of California Press.
- Chapters 7 and 8 in Fischer, C.S. (1992). America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Berkeley, University of California Press.
WEEK 3: Perspectives about Users and Technology: Determinism, SCOT, and ANT
- Heilbroner, R. (1967) “Do Machines Make History?”. Technology and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 3, 335. PDF
- Marx, Leo. 1997. Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept. Social Research, Vol. 64, No. 3. Note: the version in your reader is pretty messy, so we recommend you just read it online here: LINK
- Rosen, P. (1993) “The Social Construction of Mountain Bikes: Technology and Postmodernity in the Cycle Industry”. Social Studies of Science, Vol. 23, No. 3 479-513. PDF
- Johnson, Jim. 1988. “Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer.” Social Problems 35:298-310. PDF
- Oppenheim, Robert. 2007. “Actor-network theory and anthropology after science, technology and society.” Anthropological Theory, Vol. 7, No. 4, 471-493. PDF
- Mackenzie, Donald. 1996. Chapter 3. “Economic and Sociological Explanations of Technological Change” in Knowing Machines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [OPTIONAL]
SECTION 2: CURRENT SOCIO-TECHNICAL PROBLEMS OF INFORMATION
WEEK 4: Current ISchool Research and Discussion
**Section Week**
- Discussion Session in class
- Assignment 1 Distributed
- Reading Response Due
L8 - Thurs, Feb 11 - Guest Lecture, Megan Finn
- Ryan, Dan. 2006. “Getting the Word Out: Notes on the Social Organization of Notification.” Sociological Theory 24:228-254. PDF
WEEK 5: Notification, Norms, and Social Implications of the Internet
- Noise thread on Google Buzz
- DiMaggio, Paul, Eszter Hargittai, W. Russell Neuman, and John P. Robinson. 2001. “Social Implications of the Internet.” Annual Review of Sociology 27:307-336. PDF
- McKenna, Katelyn, and John A. Bargh. 2000. “Plan 9 From Cyberspace: The Implications of the Internet for Personality and Social Psychology.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 4. PDF
- Assignment 1 Due in Class
WEEK 6: Knowledge Transfer and Information Sharing
- MacKenzie, Donald. 1996. “Chapter 10: Tacit Knowledge and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons.” in Knowing Machines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Osterloh, Margit and Bruno S. Frey. 2000. “Motivation, Knowledge Transfer, and Organizational Forms.” Organization Science 11:538-550. PDF
- Kollock, Peter. 1999. “The Economies of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace.” Chapter 9 in Communities in Cyberspace, Kollock and Smith, eds.
- Rafaeli, Sheizaf , and Daphne R. Raban. 2005. “Information sharing online: a research challenge.” International Journal of Knowledge and Learning 1:62-79. PDF
- Cheshire, Coye and Judd Antin. 2009. "Order, Coordination and Uncertainty." eTrust: Forming Relationships in the Online World. Karen S. Cook, Chris Snijders, Vincent Buskins, Coye Cheshire (Eds.) Russell Sage Foundation. Pp. 266-291.
SECTION 3: EVALUATING SOCIO-TECHNICAL EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
WEEK 7: Qualitative and Quantitative Problems and Research I
- Creswell, John. 2003. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (Chapter 1, 6, and 10).
- Traweek, Sharon. 1988. Beamtimes and lifetimes : the world of high energy physicists. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Prologue - Chapter 3)
- Traweek, Sharon. 1988. Beamtimes and lifetimes : the world of high energy physicists. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Chapters 4- Epilogue)
WEEK 8: Qualitative and Quantitative Problems and Research II
- Dourish, Paul. 2006. “Implications for Design.” Pp. 541-550 in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI). Montreal, Canada.
- Chapter 1 in Dooley, David. 2000. “The Logic of Social Research: ruling out rival hypotheses.” in Social Science Research Methods, edited by David Dooley: Prentice Hall.
- Creswell, John. 2003. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (Chapter 9).
WEEK 9: Qualitative and Quantitative Problems and Research III – Developing Your Problem and Argument
**Discussion Section Week**
- DiMaggio, P., Bart, B., (2008) “Make Money Surfing the Web? The Impact of Internet Use on the Earnings of U.S. Workers.” American Sociological Review, 73(2), 227-250. PDF
- No Reading
- In-Class Discussion
- Assignment 2 Distributed
- Reading Response Paper Due
WEEK 10: SPRING BREAK
Tues, Mar 23 - No class
Thurs, Mar 25 - No class
SECTION 4: STRUCTURAL VIEWS OF INFORMATION USE AND ADOPTION
WEEK 11: Social Network Analysis and Information Technology – Theory and Examples
- Chapters 1-2 in Wasserman, Stanley, and Katherine Faust. 1994. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Granovetter, Mark. 1973. “The Strength of Weak Ties.” The American Journal of Sociology 78:1360-1380. PDF
- McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin and James Cook. 2001. “Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks.” Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 27, pp. 415-444. PDF
- Assignment 2 Due
WEEK 12: The Diffusion Process
- Chapter 1 in Rogers, Everett M. 1995. Diffusion of Innovations. New York, NY: Free Press.
- Geroski, P.A. 2000. “Models of technology diffusion.” Research Policy 29:603-625.
- Gruhl et. Al 2009. “Information Diffusion Through Blogspace”. PDF
- Peer Review Comments Due By Class Time (submitted through the SMC for us and emailed/passed back to each groupmate
SECTION 5: DECONSTRUCTING THE USER
WEEK 13: Identity and Reputation
- Donath, Judith. 1998. “Identity and deception in the virtual community.” in Communities in Cyberspace, edited by P. Kollock and M. Smith. London: Routledge.
- Chapters 1-2 in Turkle, Sherry. 1995. Life on the Screen. New York, NY: Touchstone.
- Ubois, Jeff. 2003. “Online Reputation Systems.” Pp. 1-33 in Release 1.0: www.edventure.com. PDF
- Bolton, Gary E. and Axel Ockenfels. “The Limits of Trust in Economic Transactions: Investigations of Perfect Reputation Systems.” eTrust: Forming Relationships in the Online World. Karen S. Cook, Chris Snijders, Vincent Buskins, Coye Cheshire (Eds.) Russell Sage Foundation. Pp. 15-36.
WEEK 14: TBD
L25 - Tues, Apr 20 - Guest Lecture - Judd Antin
L26 - Thurs, Apr 22 - ROUNDTABLE PRESENTATIONS
WEEK 15: Building and Maintaining Trust in Information Systems
- Marsh, Stephen and Mark R. Dibben. 2003. “The Role of Trust in Information Science and Technology.” Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 37:465-498. PDF
- Fogg, et. al 2003. “How do users evaluate the credibility of Web sites?: a study with over 2,500 participants.” PDF
- Cheshire, Coye and Karen S. Cook. 2004. "The Emergence of Trust Networks: Implications for Online Interaction." Analyse and Kritik, Vol 28.
- Cook, Karen S., Coye Cheshire, Alexandra Gerbasi and Brandy Aven. 2009. "Assessing Trustworthiness in Providers of Online Goods and Services." eTrust: Forming Relationships in the Online World. Karen S. Cook, Chris Snijders, Vincent Buskins, Coye Cheshire (Eds.) Russell Sage Foundation. Pp. 189-214.
WEEK 16: Current Research and Course Wrap-Up
L29 - Tues, May 4 - Guest Mini-lecture: Erin Knight, Participatory Media for Education & COURSE WRAP UP
WEEK 17: Finals Week
Tues, May 11 - FINAL PAPER DUE