schedule

Course Reading Schedule

The link for the Course Textbook is HERE:

Wed Jan 12 & Fri 14^th Introduction to the Course

• Pinter, R. (2008). “Towards getting to know information society”, in Information Society: From Theory to Political Practice. Network for Teaching Information Society: Budapest: page 11.

• Dewar, J. A. (1998). “The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead”. Rand Corporation Research & Papers.

Wed Jan 19^th What is the Information Society?

• Karvalics, L. (2008). “Information Society – what is it exactly?”, in Information Society: From Theory to Political Practice. Network for Teaching Information Society: Budapest: page 29.

• Kollanyi, B. (2008). “Use of space in the information society”, in Information Society: From Theory to Political Practice. Network for Teaching Information Society: Budapest: page 80.

Fri Jan 21^st

• No In-Class Lecture: Video Option #1 Digital Nation

Wed Jan 26^th Theorizing Technologies & ICTs

• Kincesi, A. (2008). “Technology and society in the information””, in Information Society: From Theory to Political Practice. Network for Teaching Information Society: Budapest: page 47.

• Molnar, S., Kollanyi, B. & L. Szekely. (2008). “Social networks and the network society”, in in Information Society: From Theory to Political Practice. Network for Teaching Information Society: Budapest: page 62.

Fri Jan 28^th

• No In-Class Lecture: Video Option #2 Internet & Society

Wed Feb 2^nd Digital Divides – Race, Class & Gender

• Mancinelli, E. (2008). “e-Inclusion in the Information Society”, in Information Society: From Theory to Political Practice. Network for Teaching Information Society: Budapest: page 171.

• Hargittai, E. (2002). “Second-Level Digital Divide: Differences in People’s Online Skills”, First Monday, Vol7, No 4.

Fri Feb 4^th

• No In-Class Lecture: Video Option #3 All the Women are Macs, All the PCs are Men, and the Rest of Us are Linux

Wed Feb 9^th Digital Natives – Children & Youth

• Ito, M. (2001). “Mobile Phones, Japanese Youth, and the Re-Placement of Social Contact.” Pp: 10. Proceedings of Annual Meeting for the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Cambridge, MA.

• Yardi, S. & A. Bruckman. (2010). “Social and Technical Challenges in Parenting Teens’ Social Media Use”. Forthcoming Conference CHI 2011,  May 7–12, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Fri Feb 11^th

• No In-Class Lecture: Video Option #4 Growing Up Online

Wed Feb 16^th The Household

• Kennedy, T. & B. Wellman (2007). “The Networked Household”, Information, Communication and Society, Vol 10, No 5, pp 645-670.

• Wellman, B., Rainie, L., Kennedy, T. (2011). “Networked Families”. In Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman (Eds), Networked. (Forthcoming 2011).

Fri Feb 18^th

• No In-Class Lecture: Video Option #5 Another View – Genealogy

Feb 23^rd & 25^th READING WEEK – NO CLASSES

Wed Mar 2^nd The Workplace

• Kennedy, T., Wellman, B. & J. Amoroso (2011). “Can You Take It With You? Mobility, ICTs and Work-Life Balance”. In James E. Katz (Ed), Mobile Communication: Dimensions of Social Policy. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers (Forthcoming January 2011).

• Holczer, M. (2008). “Innovation and competitiveness in the information society”, in Information Society: From Theory to Political Practice. Network for Teaching Information Society: Budapest: page 93.

Fri Mar 4^th

• Student Presentations

Wed Mar 9^th The Education System

• Marbach-Ad, G. & P. Sokolove (2002). “The Use of E-Mail and In-Class Writing to Facilitate Student-Instructor Interaction in Large-Enrollment Traditional and Active Learning Classes”, Journal of Science, Education and Technology, 11(2), pp. 109-119.

• Bessenyei, I. (2008). “Learning and Teaching in the Information Society. eLearning 2.0 and Connectivism”, in Information Society: From Theory to Political Practice. Network for Teaching Information Society: Budapest: page 202.

Fri Mar 11^th

• Student Presentations

Wed Mar 16^th Leisure & Entertainment

• Gamification Slides
• Williams, D. (2006). “Why Game Studies Now?”. Games & Culture, Vol 1 (1).  Sage.

• Williams, D. & C. Steinkueler. (2006). “Where Everybody Knows Your (Screen) Name: Online Games as ‘Third Places’”, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol 11, 885–909.

Fri Mar 18^th

• Student Presentations

Mar 23^rd Communities & Social Networks

• Wellman, B. & M. Gulia (1999). “Net Surfers Don’t Ride Alone: Virtual Community as Community” in Networks in the Global Village, Barry Wellman (ed). Boulder, CO: Westview Press, pp. 331-67.

• Ellison, N., Steinfield, C. & C. Lampe. (2007). “The Benefits of Facebook “Friends”: Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites”, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Vol 12, No 4, pp. 1143-1168. (web)

Fri Mar 25^th

• Student Presentations

Wed Mar 30^th Security, Privacy & Surveillance

• Acquisti, A. & R. Gross (2006). “Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook”, in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Berlin: Springer, pp 36-58.

• Simon, E. (2008). “Introduction to the legal regulation of information society”, in Information Society: From Theory to Political Practice. Network for Teaching Information Society: Budapest: page 114.

Fri Apr 1^st

• Student Presentations

Wed Apr 6^th The Future of the Information Society

• Rab, A. (2008). “Digital culture – Digitalised culture and culture created on a digital platform”, in Information Society: From Theory to Political Practice. Network for Teaching Information Society: Budapest: page 183.

• Rinter, R. (2008). “Popular buzzwords, supernarratives and metanarratives for development: What does the term “information society” mean?” in Information Society: From Theory to Political Practice. Network for Teaching Information Society: Budapest: page 212.

Fri Apr 8^th

• No Lecture – Work on Take Home Exam