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Week of January 13 - Introduction to the Course
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Week of January 20 - Introduction to the Course:
Concepts
- Reading: Pacey Ch 1-2; Carey & Quirk (1989)
- [No class Monday- MLK Holiday]
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Week of January 27 - History of Communication
Technology I
- Reading: Leakey (1979) Ch 10; Innis (1950); Burke
(1985)
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Week of February 3 - History of Communication
Technology II
- Reading: Ong (1982); Carey (1989); S&L Ch.
7.
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Week of February 10 - Regulating in the Public
Interest I - Models and Goals in the era of Mass Media
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Week of February 17 - The Digital Revolution
- Telephony & Computers, Networks & Switches
- Reading: Lebow (1995); Wilden (1980)- very short;
S&L 11-12
- Research Bibliography Due. Friday, Feb. 21st.
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Week of February 24 - Hybrid Policy in a Digital
Era- Cable, Divestiture, & Competition
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Week of March 3 - The Digital Revolution II -
Info Services
- Reading: S&L Ch 13; Brand (Ch 11); Uncapher
(1996)
- Mid-term March 7th.
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Week of March 10- [Spring Break]
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Week of March 17 - New Media and Interface- Mass
Media to the Cyber-arts of Interactivity
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Week of March 24 - Impact on Business, Management,
and the Workplace
- Reading: S&L Ch. 14; Zuboff 1984 31-50; Castells
(1996:157-160); Optional OTA Ch. 5
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Week of March 31 - Impact on Privacy, Security,
and Personal Rights
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Week of April 7 - Education and Political Process
- Reading: Schiller & Schiller 1988; Odasz
1990; Abramson 1988
- Term paper due. Monday, April 7th
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Week of April 14 - Globalization 1
- Reading: Appadurai 1996; Brand Ch 12
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Week of April 21 - Globalization II
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Week of April 28 - Identity and Personal Life
in the Digital Era
- Reading: Meyrowitz 1986; Gergen 1991
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