Required Text:

Shenk, David (1998) Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut NY:Harper-Collins.

Additional Readings:

American Civil Liberties Union (March 17, 2002) "Fahrenheit 451.2: Is Cyberspace Burning?" Available: http://www.aclu.org/news/NewsPrint.cfm?ID=9997&c=55 (Nov. 13)

Bates, Marcia J. (July 2002) "After the dot-bomb: Getting web information retrieval right this time" First Monday7(7) Available: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_7/bates/index.html. (Sept. 9)

Berners-Lee, Tim, Hendler, James, and Lassila, Ora (2001) "The semantic web" Scientific American Available: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21&catID=2. (Sept. 9)

Billington, James H. (1994) "Electronic content and civilization's discontent" Educom Review 29(5) Available: http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/29522.html. (Dec. 9)

Bjork, Bo-Christer and Turk, Ziga (Aug. 2001) "How scientists retrieve publications: An empirical study of how the internet is overtaking paper media" Journal of Electronic Publishing 6(2) Available: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-02/bjork.html.(Oct. 7, optional reading)

Boucher, Rick (May 10, 2002) "Protecting the information commons: Asserting the public interest in copyright law and digital infrastructure" Tech Law Journal Available: http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong107/copyright/20020510.asp. (Oct. 21)

Bowker, Geoffrey C. and Star, Susan Leigh (1999) Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences, pages 10-16, 31-31. (Sept. 9)

Brown, John Seely (Oct 2, 2000) "Look-closely-right-now" Forbes.com Available: http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/1002/026.html. (Nov. 18)

Brown, John Seely and Duguid, Paul (2000) "Home Alone" In: The Social Life of Information Boston:Harvard Business School Press, chapter 3. (Sept. 23).

Brown, John Seely and Duguid, Paul (2000) "Learning--in Theory and in Practice" In: The Social Life of Information Boston:Harvard Business School Press, chapter 5, pgs. 117-125. (Sept. 4).

Brown, John Seely and Duguid, Paul (2000) "Reading the Background" In: The Social Life of Information Boston:Harvard Business School Press, chapter 7. (Sept. 25).

Bucher, Hans-Juergen (2002) "Crisis communication and the Internet: Risk and trust in a global media" firstmonday 7(4). Available: http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_4/bucher/index.html.(Sept. 30)

Chandler, Jr., Alfred D. (2000) "The information age in historical perspective" In: A Nation Transformed by Information NY:Oxford University Press, pg.3-37. (Sept. 11)

Davenport, Thomas H. (1997) "Information and its Discontents: An Introduction" In: Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment NY:Oxford University Press, pgs. 3-12. (Sept. 4)

Fischetti, Mark (2001) "The future of TV" MIT Technology Review 104(9):35-40.

Hammang-Buhl, Jane (2000) "Privacy-security-efficiency: A consideration of multiple stakeholder claims regarding information" Fifth Annual Ethics and Technology Conference, Plenary Session. Loyola University, Chicago, Chicago, IL, July 21-22, 2000. Available: http://www.ethicstech.org/papers/hammang-buhl.doc. (Nov. 4)

Harper, Georgia K. (2000) "Copyright endurance and change" EDUCAUSE Review 35(6):20-26 Available: http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm00/articles006/erm0061.pdf. (Oct. 21)

Hasulo, Susanne (Aug. 2002) "Defining information literacy" Information Highways Available: http://www.informationhighways.net/mag/mcurrent/02aug03.html. (Aug. 28)

Humes, Barbara (Sept. 1999) "Understanding information literacy" U.S. Department of Education. Available: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/UnderLit/index.html. (Aug. 28)

Jonscher, Charles (1999) "The ancient mystery of human knowledge" In: Wired Life. Who Are We in the Digital Age? NY:Bantam Press, pgs. 35-62. (Sept. 4)

Kearns Goodwin, Doris (Feb. 4, 2002) "How I caused that story" Time, pg. 69. (Oct. 23)

Lessig, Lawrence (Jan/Feb 2002) "Control & creativity" The American Spectator Available online: http://www.spectator.org/AmericanSpectatorArticles/Lessig/Control.htm. (excerpt from The Future of Ideas). (Oct. 21)

McLuhan, Marshall (1996) "The Medium is the Message" In: Understanding Media Cambridge: MIT Press. (Sept. 18)

Media History Project (1996) Media History Project Timeline Available: http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/time/century.html

National Public Radio (Mar. 4, 2002) "Author Michael Bellesiles being criticized by fellow scholars over the integrity of facts used in his book 'Arming America'" Morning Edition. (Oct. 23)

Open Source Initiative Available: http://www.opensource.org. (Oct. 30)

Poe, Marshall (2001) "Print monograph dead; invent new publishing model" Journal of Electronic Publishing 7(2) Available: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/sidepoe.html. (Oct. 14)

Roszak, Theodore (1986) "'Information, please'" In: The Cult of Information. The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinking NY:Pantheon Books, pgs. 3-20. (Sept. 4)

Scott, Brendan (2001) "Copyright in a frictionless world: toward a rhetoric of responsibility" First Monday 6(9). Available: http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_9/scott/index.html. (Oct. 21, optional reading)

Searing, Susan E. and Estabrook, Leigh S. (2001) "The future of scientific publishing on the web: Insights from focus groups of chemists" portal: Libraries and the Academy 1(1):77-96. Available: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v001/1.1searing.pdf. (Oct. 7, optional reading)

Shapiro, Jeremy J. and Hughes, Shelley K. (March/April 1996) "Information literacy as a liberal art" Educom Review 31(2) Available: http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/31231.html. (Aug. 28)

Shenk, David (1999) "Stealing Calm" In: The End of Patience: Cautionary Notes on the Information Revolution Bloomington, IN:Bloomington Indiana Press. (Sept. 16)

Solomon, David J. (2002) "Talking past each other: Making sense of the debate over electronic publication" First Monday 7(8). Available: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_8/solomon/index.html (Oct. 7)

Stallman, Richard The GNU Project. Available: http://www.gnu.org/thegnuproject.html. (Oct. 30)

Suber, Peter (April 2000) "Where does the free online scholarship movement stand today?" Cortex 38(2):261-264. Available: http://www.masson.it/cortex/pdf/vol38/issue2/261-264.pdf

Suber, Peter (June 2002) "Open access to the scientific journal literature" Journal of Biology 1(1):3f. Available: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/jbiol.htm

Warger, Thomas (2002) "The open-source movement" Educause Quarterly, pg. 18-20. Available: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0233.pdf. (Oct 30)

Zimmerman, Eilene (February 2002) "HR must know when employee surveillance crosses the line" Workforce 81(2):38-45. (On BlackBoard) (Nov. 13)