The Quality of Information, Infosys 290 Section 10 Paul Duguid and Geoffrey Nunberg
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September 15: Quantity vs Quality (2):
Quality, fraud, plagiarism, and hoax--manifestations of "rotten information"


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Guest: Peter Lyman, SIMS

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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