Last update: 15 Dec 2004
Winter Readings
You can still look at the fall reading assignments, if you want!
Week 1 Seminar: Shaping the Network Society
- 3: Shaping Technology for the "Good Life": The Technological Imperative
Versus the Social Imperative
by Gary Chapman - 12: What Do We Need To Know about the Future we're creating?
Technobiographical Reflections
by Howard Rheingold
Prompt for response paper (post to WebX seminar folder by Jan. 7):
Provide a word or short phrase that helps characterize your
vision of the "good life." Then, using evidence from the Chapman
and Rheingold chapters in the book, discuss how communications
or other computer related technology might contribute (or detract)
to your imagined "good life."
Week 3 Seminar: Artful Integration: Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2004
- Facilitating Collaboration through Design Games
by Eva Brandt and Jorn Messeter - Socio-Technical Walkthrough: Designing Technology along Work Processes
by Thomas Herrmann, Gabriele Kunau, Kai-Uwe Loser, and Natalja Menold - Social Creativity: Turning Barriers into Opportunities for Collaborative Design
by Gerhard Fischer - Ways of Grounding Imagination
by Monika Buscher, Mette Agger Eriksen, Jannie Friis Kristensen, Preben Holst Mogensen
Week 6 Seminar: More Shaping the Network Society
- 5: A Census of Public Computing in Toledo, Ohio
by Kate Williams and Abdul Alkalimat - 6: The Rise and Fall of Amsterdam's Digital City
by Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens - 8: Civic Networking in a Hostile Environment: Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia
by Veran Matic - 10: The Role of CNs in Shaping the Network Society: Enabling People to Develop their own Projects
by Fiorella De Cindio - 14: The Soil of Cyberspace: Historical Archeologies of the BEV and SCN
by David Silver
Week 9 Seminar: More Shaping the Network Society
- 2: Cyberspace, Power and Globalization
by Oliver Boyd-Barrett - 4: Towards a Global Billboard Society
by Cees Hamelink - 11: Information Technology and the Public Sphere
by Craig Calhoun - 15: Globalization and Media Democracy: The Case of the Independent Media Centers
by Douglas Morris - 16: Prospects for a New Public Sphere
by Peter Day and Doug Schuler