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September 8: Quantity vs Quality (1): QuantityClass slidesPrimary ReadingBrown, John Seely & Paul Duguid. 2000. Limits to Information, chapter 1 pp 11-34 in The Social Life of Information. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.Nunberg, Geoffrey. 1996. Farewell the Information Age, pp 103-138 in The Future of the Book. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Weaver, Warren. 1964. Introductory Note on the General Setting of the Analytical Communication Studies, pp. 1-28 in W. Weaver and C. Shannon, The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Secondary ReadingCochrane, Nathan. 2003. Too Much Information. The Age November 11, 2003.Ginsparg, Paul. 2004. The Truth Is Still Out There. New York Times. August 3. Peters, John Durham. 1999. Introduction: The Problem of Communication, pp 1-32 in Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Next week
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