Mstu4020/info society

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Fall 2007

Thursday, 5:10 - 6:50 PM

MY 345M

Office hours: Tue., 5 - 6:30 PM, MY 260

Schedule

Social and Communicative Aspects of Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs)

TOPIC 1: Views on the relationship and role of technology in society

[edit] Session 3: The Information Society

9/20/07

Readings
- Crawford, S. (1983). The origin and development of a concept: The information society. The Bulletin of the Medical Librarian Association, 71(4), 380-385. (e-reserve on ClassWeb)
- Dyson, E. (1996). Cyberspace and the American dream: A Magna Carta for the knowledge age (release 1.2, August 22, 1994). The Information Society, 12(3), 295-308. (e-reserve on ClassWeb)
- Webster, F. (2006). The information society revisited. In L. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone (Eds.), The Handbook of New Media, Updated Student Edition (443-457). London: Sage.
- Witte, J. (2004). The case for multimethod research: Large sample design and the study of life online. In P. Howard & S. Jones (Eds.), Society online: The Internet in context (xv-xxxiv). London: Sage. (e-reserve on ClassWeb)

Blog
- What concept or idea intrigued you most in this weeks' readings? How/does it impact your thinking about the questions and issues you wrote out for yourself last week?

Further reading
- Pew Internet and American Life Project - conducts large-scale survey research on many areas of Internet use