The Quality of Information, Infosys 290 Section 10 Paul Duguid and Geoffrey Nunberg
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Print, authorship, authority, and reputation

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Primary Reading

Barlow, John Perry. 1993. 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.

Boyle, James. 1996. Preface, pp ix-xvi in Shamans, Software, & Spleens: Lawand the Construction of the Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Foucault, Michel. 1979. What Is an Author?, pp 141-160 in J. Harari ed., Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Post-Structuralist Criticism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Kernan, Alvin. 1989 Printing, Bookselling, Readers, and Writers in Eighteenth-Century London, pp 48-90 in Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Secondary Reading

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

Barthes, Roland. 1977. The Death of the Author, pp: 142-148 in Image, Music, Text. New York: Hill & Wang,

Chartier, Roger. 2003. Foucault's Chiasmus: Authorship between Science and Literature in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, pp: 13-32 in Mario Biagioli & Peter Galison eds., Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual Property in Science. New York: Routledge.

Erne, Lukas, 2003. Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Stock, Brian. 1983. The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries . Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Tribble, Evelyn. 1993. Margins & Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England. Charlotte, VA: University of Virginia Press.



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