Paul Duguid
Geoffrey
Nunberg
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GUESTS
John Lamping
Peter Lyman
Clifford Lynch
Steve
Weber
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Class Sequence
I. Introduction
September 1: Infoenthusiasm
II. Theoretical and Historical Issues
September 8:
Quantity vs Quality (1): Quantity
Reading & slides
September 15:
Quantity vs Quality (2):
Quality, fraud, plagiarism, and hoax--manifestations of "rotten
information"
Reading & slides
September 22:
Economics of information
Reading & slides
September 29:
Rotten information (2);
Search assignment
Reading
October 6:
Print, authors, authority, and reputation
Reading & slides
October 13
Newspapers, the news, and the constitution of the "public sphere"
Reading & slides
October 20
Forms of knowledge and communication:
Dictionaries, reference books, journals, databases
Reading & slides
III. Applications
October 27:
Education
Assignment, Reading,
& slides
November 3:
Search Technologies
Guest: John Lamping, Google
Assignment
Slides
November 10:
Legal Solutions:
Intellectual Property & Quality
Reading & slides
November 17:
Open Source & Quality
Guest: Steve Weber,
Institute of International Studies
Reading & Slides
November 24:
Discussion class: Information Literacy
Reading TBD
December 1:
Institutional solutions:
Libraries
Reading TBD
December 8:
Topic & Reading TBD
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