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Abstract/Syllabus:
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InfoSys C103 History of Information
04:00-5:30 PM | 277 Cory
Instructor Paul Duguid
InfoSys C103: History of Information - Fall 2006. This course explores the history of information and associated technologies, uncovering why we think of ours as 'the information age.' We will select moments in the evolution of production, recording, and storage from the earliest writing systems to the world of Short Message Service (SMS) and blogs. In every instance, we'll be concerned with both what and when and how and why, and we will keep returning to the question of technological determinism: how do technological developments affect society and vice versa?
Lecture Archive
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Mon 8/28 |
Introduction: On Information |
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Wed 8/30 |
On Determinism |
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Mon 9/4 |
InfoSys 103: Lecture 3 - Holiday |
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Wed 9/6 |
Writing Systems |
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Mon 9/11 |
Written Mentalities |
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Wed 9/13 |
Manuscript Cultures |
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Mon 9/18 |
Storing and Retrieving |
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Wed 9/20 |
Print, Printing and Print Culture |
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Mon 9/25 |
Book Writing and Wall Writing |
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Wed 9/27 |
18th Century Public Sphere: Early Newspaper, Coffee Houses, Political Discourse |
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Mon 10/2 |
Science, Statistics, Certainty |
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Wed 10/4 |
Forms of Authority: Reference Books, Museum, Libraries |
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Mon 10/9 |
Information Work |
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Wed 10/11 |
Dawn of the Information Economy |
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Mon 10/16 |
19th Century Public Sphere: Mass Communication |
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Wed 10/18 |
19th Century Public Sphere: Mass Communication (con't) |
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Mon 10/23 |
Time and Space: Point to Point |
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Wed 10/25 |
Propaganda |
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Mon 10/30 |
Office Automation, ERP |
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Wed 11/1 |
Post Office |
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Mon 11/6 |
Broadcast |
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Wed 11/8 |
Broadcast -con't - Advertising: Branded Goods, Branding Information |
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Mon 11/13 |
Intellectual Property: Owning Information |
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Wed 11/15 |
Advertising - con't |
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Mon 11/20 |
Internet and Information Literacy |
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Wed 11/22 |
Reading Class (podcast not available) |
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Mon 11/27 |
Open Source |
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Wed 11/29 |
Search, Storage and Retrieval |
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Mon 12/4 |
20th Century Public Sphere |
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Wed 12/6 |
Utopia |
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