Sosc2080/2089 Information and Technology
M-L Craven - Course Director
Material considered for Mid-term Test
December 2002
1. (articles in kit unless a URL is given)
Feather, J. 1998. The Political Dimension: Information,
the State and the Citizen, in The Information Society.
(2nd edition). London: Library Association Publishing.
Homer-Dixon, T. 2000. Techno-Hubris in The
Ingenuity Gap. Toronto: Knopf.
Hunter, C. (accessed online Nov. 2002). “Political
Privacy and Online Politics: How E-Campaigning Threatens Voter
Privacy” http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_2/hunter/index.html
Keohane, R. & J. Nye. (accessed online Nov.
2002). “Power and Interdependence in the Information Age,
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http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/prg/nye/power.pdf
Perrolle, J. (accessed online fall, 2002) Computers and Social
Change (sections 1.1., 1.2. and 1.3. and parts of chapter
2 - 2.1.1, 2.1.3.3., 2.3.1.1. ) http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/perrolle/book/chapter1.html
Selfe, C. 1999. Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution:
Images of Technology and the Nature of Change. In Passions,
Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies, G. Hawisher and
C. Selfe (Eds.). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, p.
292-322.
Sproull, L. and S. Keisler. 1993. A Two-Level
Perspective on Technology, in New Ways of Working in the
Networked Organization. Cambridge, Addison-Wesley.
Tenner, E. 1996. Ever Since Frankenstein, in Why
Things Bite Back. Knopf.
2. Two videos
“The Intelligent island” – not
available online; reshown Tuesday, Dec. 3rd during regular lecture
time.
“Into the Future: On the preservation of
Knowledge in the Electronic Age”
(video available for individual viewing from SMIL in Scott Library;
ask for video #4612;
3. Material covered in lectures
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