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Tuesday, September 3
Thursday, September 5
Aronowitz, The Last Good Job in America: "Onto-History and Epistemology."
PRIOR FORECASTS OF THE HIGH-TECH FUTURE
Tuesday, September 10
Marcuse, Herbert. 1998 [1941]. "Some Social Implications of Modern Technology." Pp. 39-65 in Technology, War and Fascism: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Vol. 1, edited by Douglas Kellner. London: Routledge.Bell, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: pp. 3-33, 112-119, xxxviii-xlv
Recommended
Aronowitz, The Last Good Job in America: "Capitalism and the State: Marcuse's Legacy"
Thursday, September 12
Bell, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: pp. 123-164, 174-177, 186-195, 212-265.
Recommended
Aronowitz, The Last Good Job in America: "Higher Education as a Public Good"
Tuesday, September 17
Bell, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: chaps. 4-6, plus pp. 378-86, 456-489
Thursday, September 19
Castells, The Internet Galaxy: chaps. 1-2Barbrook, Richard and Andy Cameron. 1996. "The Californian Ideology." Science as Culture 6(1): 44-72.
CUTTING EDGES OF THE NEW ECONOMY
Tuesday, September 24
Take-home exam #1 due.
In-class video: "Secrets of Silicon Valley" (2001).
Thursday, September 26
Dicken, Peter. 1992. "Global Organization and Reorganization of Economic Activity: Networks of Relationships." Pp. 189-227 in Global Shift, 2d ed. New York: Guilford Press.Carnoy, Martin. 2002. "New Technology and Job Markets." Pp. 14-55 in Sustaining the New Economy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Castells, The Internet Galaxy: Opening, chap. 3 (pp. 64-90, 100-115).Bonacich, Edna and Richard P. Appelbaum. 2000. "Retailers." Pp. 80-103 in Behind the Label. Berkeley: University of California Press.
"The Art of Office E-mail War" (Salon, May 9, 2002).
Thursday, October 3
Castells, The Internet Galaxy: chap. 3 (pp. 90-100).Sennett, The Corrosion of Character, chaps. 1-3.
Tuesday, October 8
Sennett, The Corrosion of Character, chaps. 4-8.
Take-home exam #2 due.
FALL BREAK: October 11-20
DIGITAL DIVIDES I: CLASS
Tuesday, October 22
Thomas Holt, The Problem of Race in the Twenty-First Century
Recommended
Aronowitz, The Last Good Job in America: "Race Relations in the Twenty-First Century"
Thursday, October 24
Castells, The Internet Galaxy: chap. 9
Tuesday, October 29
Castells, The Internet Galaxy: conclusionAronowitz, The Last Good Job in America: "The Last Good Job in America"
"Classrooms Need Upgrades, Too" (Wired News, April 8, 2002).
DIGITAL DIVIDES II: PRIVACY
Thursday, October 31
Select topics and teams for website assignment.
Castells, The Internet Galaxy: chap. 6"Yahoo's 'Opt-Out' Angers Users" (Wired News, April 2, 2002).
"Why Countries Make Sites Unseen" (Wired News, July 18, 2002).
"Using Terror as a Pretext" (Wired News, September 4, 2002).
Hosoya, Hiromi and Markus Schaefer. 2001. "Psychogramming." Pp. 559-575 in Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, edited by C. J. Chung et al. Cologne: Taschen.Leong, Sze Tsung. 2001. "Ulterior Spaces." Pp. 764-795 in Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, edited by C. J. Chung et al. Cologne: Taschen.
"Smile, You're on In-Store Camera" (Wired News, August 8, 2002).
Rosen, Jeffrey. 2002. "Silicon Valley's Spy Game." New York Times Magazine, April 14, 2002.
"Family Implanted with Computer Chips" (USA Today, May 10, 2002).
Take-home exam #3 due.
HIGH-TECH LIFESTYLES
Tuesday, November 12
Davis, Susan G. 2001. "Shopping." Pp. 163-196 in Culture Works, edited by R. Maxwell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press."Mobile Junkies Reshaping Society?" (Wired News, October 9, 2002).
Thursday, November 14
Kraut, R., M. Patterson, V. Lundmark, S, Kiesler, T. Mukophadhyay, and W. Scherlis. 1998. "Internet Paradox: A Social Technology that Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being?" American Psychologist 53(9): 1017-1031.Turkle, Sherry. 1995. "Aspects of the Self." Pp. 177-209 in Life on the Screen. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Castells, The Internet Galaxy: chap. 4
Recommended
Tuesday, November 19
Alderman, Sonic BoomWilliam Fisher, "Digital Music: Problems and Possibilities."
"Would You Download Music from This Man?" (Wired, May 2002).
"The Day the Napster Died" (Wired News, May 15, 2002).
"Where Music Will Be Coming From" (New York Times Magazine, March 17, 2002).
"Grudgingly, Music Labels Sell their Music Online" (New York Times, July 1, 2002).
"Tech Activists Protest Anti-Copying" (CNet News.com, July 17, 2002).
"MPAA Snooping for Spies" (Wired News, July 22, 2002).
"Hollywood, Tech Make Suspicious Pairing" (by Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, July 20, 2002).
"Bracing for the Digital Crackdown" (Wired News, August 22, 2002).
"RIAA: Feeling Burn of Ripped CDs" (Wired News, August 28, 2002).
"Hollywood, Tech Piracy Efforts May Curtail Choices" (Los Angeles Times, September 3, 2002).
Thursday, November 21
Alderman, Sonic Boom"Motivating the Masses, Wirelessly" (New York Times, July 22, 2002).
DIGITAL DIVIDES III: COMMUNITY
Tuesday, November 26
Joel Kotkin, The New Geography, chaps. 1-5.Castells, The Internet Galaxy: chap.8 (pp. 231-241).
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY: Thursday, November 28
Team websites due.
Joel Kotkin, The New Geography, chaps. 6-7.
Thursday, December 5
Gradesheets for team websites due.
Beck and Beck-Gersheim, Individualization: foreward by Scott Lash, chaps. 1-3.
Tuesday, December 10
Flexible project briefs due.
Beck and Beck-Gersheim, Individualization: chaps. 6, 8-10, 14.
Monday, December 16, 10:30 a.m.
Take-home exam #4 due.
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