SOCIETY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

SOC 297 - Tuesdays, Jun 5 - Jul 24, 7 - 9 pm EST, in the virtual world of Second Life only

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Castells, Manuel. 2001. "Identity and Change in the Network Society: Conversation with Manuel Castells." UC Berkeley Globetrotter Interview. "Conversations with History" series with Harry Kreisler.

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-con0.html

Dotstub:

http://dotsub.com/films/rocketboom_april_26_2007/index.php 

Sariah says: Here's a video about dotsub, which seems like a tremendous tool -- maybe it will even be the answer to translating text and video one of these days.

And video search in Google for these, as well:

Pirates of Silicon Valley (TV)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/

Triumph of the Nerds (3 hour long videos)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115398/

http://www.pbs.org/nerds/

Stephenson, Neal. 2000. (1992). Snow Crash. Spectra.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Bantam-Spectra-Book/dp/0553380958

American Sociological Association Style Guide

http://www.asanet.org/page.ww?name=Quick+Style+Guide§ion=Sociology+Depts

Throughout the course we will study many different information technology and societal processes to understand what and how significant these changes are. More course information ...

- The Digital Divide

- The Informational City: Information Technology and Spatial Transformation;

- The Internet, Sociability, and Empirical Data: Communities and Individualization

- Gender relations in the Information Age: the crisis of patriarchy

Home - http://socinfotech.pbwiki.com/