Week 1 - Information Technology and Society: Introduction

In this class we'll discuss some key issues in how the Network Society developed, and get acquainted with an overview of this course in Second Life. In this class we'll first consider five main aspects of information technology-related cultural change, which provide ways to analyze this information technology paradigm shift.  We'll begin by contextualizing the Network Society in relation to these 5 characteristics, as we explore main themes in this course. And, we'll also examine Second Life itself, to see how to get around in it and learn about it, vis-a-vis the Network Society.

Reading and Media:

• 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.htm
• MacLeod, Scott. 2007. Internet History and the Hacker Ethos. Posted online: March 14, 2007. Google Video (13 mins.): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3343089838845057911&hl=en#  

Notes from this week's transcript:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc1_2010FA

Past transcripts:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc1

(Soc Info Tech Class Transcript Jan 9 2008)

Week 2 - The Information Technology Revolution: History, Geography, Actors

In this class, we'll continue to discuss how the three main bases of the Information Technology Revolution, as well as begin to look at a history of the Internet.

Reading and Media:

• Castells, Manuel. "The Rise of the Network Society,” 2 nd edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, chapter 1: "The Information Technology Revolution,” pp. 28- 76. (P. 15 in Reader).
• MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 1 The Information Technology Revolution - History and Geography. Google Video (43 mins.): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4491079746692966741#
  

Notes from this week's transcript:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc2_2010FA

Past transcripts:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc2

(Jan 16 2008 Soc and Info Tech course transcript)

Week 3 - Social History of the Internet

In this class, we'll examine the beginning of the Information Technology revolution, focusing the origins of microelectronics, computing, and telecommunications.

Reading and Media:

• Abbate, Janet. "Inventing the Internet,” Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999, pages 1-6, 44-81.
• MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 2 Social History of the Internet. Google Video (32 mins.):
  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-620843116698445726
• MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 3 The Information Revolution and Social Transformations. Posted online: June 24, 2007. Google Video (18 mins.):
  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8420437169658839723

Notes from this week's transcript:

No transcript

Past transcripts:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc3

(Jan 23 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript)

Week 4 - Social History of the Internet (continued)

In this class, we'll look at ways in which the Information Technology revolution changes production.

Reading and Media:

• MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 4 Internet History. June 29, 2007. Google Video (48 mins.):
  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3214353275146773046

Notes from this week's transcript:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc4_2010FA

Past transcripts:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc4

Jan 30 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 5 - History of the Internet - 1950s and 1960s

In this class, we'll examine specifically the history of the Internet, emerging from the development of microelectronics, computing, and telecommunications.

Reading and Media:

• Abbate, Janet. "Inventing the Internet,” Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999, pages 181-220
• MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 4 Internet History. June 29, 2007. Google Video (48 mins.):
  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3214353275146773046

Notes from this week's transcript:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc5_2010FA

Past transcripts:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc5

Week 6 - History of the Internet - 1970s and 1980s

TCP / IP - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol, the personal computer

Notes from this week's transcript:

Past transcripts:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc6

(Feb 13 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript)

Week 7 - History of the Internet - 1990s to the present

Internet Governance - ICANN; RFC - Request for Comment; Cultures that Gave Rise to the Internet: Technomeritocractic, Hacker, Communitarian, Entrepreneurial

Past transcripts:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc7

Feb 20 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 8 - The Informational City: Information Technology and Spatial Transformation

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc8

Feb 27 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 9 - Virtual Worlds

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc9

Week 10 -Virtual Worlds, Education, Enjoyment vis-a-vis Csikszentmhalyi's 'Flow"

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc10

Avatar Agency, and the city and spatial transformation vis-a-vis the Information Technology Revolution - multi-modal cities

Mar 12 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 11 - Sociality and Empirical Research on the Internet

Notes from this week's transcript:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/w/page/InfoTechSoc7_2010FA

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/w/page/InfoTechSoc8_2010FA

past transcripts:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc11

The Informational City: Information Technology and Spatial Transformation (cont.) - Core edge cities

Mar 19 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 12 -

Notes from this week's transcript:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/w/page/32216876/InfoTechSoc9_2010FA

past transcripts:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/InfoTechSoc12

Information technology, International relations, Warfare, and Noopolitik 

Mar 26 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 13 - Information technology, International relations, Warfare, and Noopolitik  (cont.)

 April 2 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 14 - The New World Disorder: Identity

April 9 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Stanford Professor Ramesh Johari - The Future of the Internet

(iTunes University)

Week 15 - Identity (cont.), and Challenges Ahead for the Future of the Internet and the Network Society

April 16 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 16 - Digital Divide (Inequality)

Apr 23 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 17 - Digital Divide (cont.), and Anthropology of Virtual Worlds

April 30 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 18 - Digital Divide (cont.) and Internet Statistics

May 7 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 19 - Digital Divide (cont.)

 May 14 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

 Week 20 - The Future of the Internet & Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society's 10th anniversary conference

May 21 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 21

- Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society's 10th Anniversary

-The Future of the Internet - Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player

 May 28 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 22

- Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (2)

June 4 2008 Soc and Info Tech course transcript

Week 23

-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (3)

- Structuring a global, open university

June 11 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 24

-Envisioning a global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (4)

- Funding and virtual worlds of a global, open university

June 18 2008 Soc and Info Tech course transcript

Week 25

-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (5)

June 25 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 26

-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (6)

July 2 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 27

-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (7)

July 9 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 28

-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (7)

July 16 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 29

-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (7)

July 23 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 30

-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (7)

July 30 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 1 - Information Technology and Society: Introduction

In this class we'll discuss some key issues in how the Network Society developed, and get acquainted with an overview of this course in Second Life. In this class we'll first consider five main aspects of information technology-related cultural change, which provide ways to analyze this information technology paradigm shift.  We'll begin by contextualizing the Network Society in relation to these 5 characteristics, as we explore main themes in this course. And, we'll also examine Second Life itself, to see how to get around in it and learn about it, vis-a-vis the Network Society.

Reading and Media:

• MacLeod, Scott. 2007. Internet History and the Hacker Ethos. Posted online: March 14, 2007. Google Video (13 mins.):
  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3343089838845057911
• 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
  

Homework:

• Create a Second Life avatar. Sign up for a Second Life Basic Membership (FREE) and download the software (FREE). You can sign up here. You can download the software here. There is no need to pay for anything at any point in the process.
• Short writing assignment: Write a 1 page description of what the Internet is, and how you think information technology and the Internet are changing things in your life, and the things you do, as well as more broadly in society.

Aug 29 07 Soc Info Tech in SL transcript

Week 2 - The Information Technology Revolution: History, Geography, Actors

In this class, we'll continue to discuss how the three main bases of the Information Technology Revolution, as well as begin to look at a history of the Internet.

Reading and Media:

Castells, Manuel. "The Rise of the Network Society,” 2 nd edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, chapter 1: "The Information Technology Revolution,” pp. 28- 76. (P. 15 in Reader).

MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 1 The Information Technology Revolution - History and Geography. Google Video (43 mins.):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4491079746692966741

Homework:

TBA

Sep 5 07 Soc and Info Tech in SL transcript

Week 3 - Social History of the Internet

In this class, we'll examine the beginning of the Information Technology revolution, focusing the origins of microelectronics, computing, and telecommunications.

Reading and Media:

Abbate, Janet. "Inventing the Internet,” Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999, pages 1-6, 44-81.

MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 2 Social History of the Internet. Google Video (32 mins.):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-620843116698445726

MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 3 The Information Revolution and Social Transformations. Posted online: June 24, 2007. Google Video (18 mins.):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8420437169658839723

Homework:

TBA

Sep 12 2007 Soc and Info Tech class in SL transcript

Week 4 - Social History of the Internet (continued)

In this class, we'll look at ways in which the Information Technology revolution changes production.

Reading and Media:

MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 4 Internet History. June 29, 2007. Google Video (48 mins.):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3214353275146773046

Homework:

TBA

Sep 19 2007 Soc and Info Tech in SL class transcript

Week 5 - History of the Internet - 1950s and 1960s

In this class, we'll examine specifically the history of the Internet, emerging from the development of microelectronics, computing, and telecommunications.

Reading and Media:

Abbate, Janet. "Inventing the Internet,” Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999, pages 181-220.

MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 4 Internet History. June 29, 2007. Google Video (48 mins.):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3214353275146773046

Homework:

TBA

Sep 26 2007 Soc and Info Tech in SL class transcript

Week 6 - History of the Internet - 1970s and 1980s

TCP / IP - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol, the personal computer

(Oct 3 2007 Soc and Info Tech in SL class transcript)

Week 7 - History of the Internet - 1990s to the present

Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web; Browsers; Cultures of the Internet: Technomeritocractic, Hacker, Communitarian, Entrepreneurial

Oct 10 2007 Soc and Info Tech course transcript

Week 8 - Participated in Harvard Professor Charles Nesson's Burning Man Mock Trial in Second Life

This transcript includes the jury's deliberation:

Oct 17 2007 Burning Man Mock Trial

Week 9 - Virtual Communities; The New Media and the Culture of Real Virtuality; Virtual Worlds: Second Life

Oct 23 07 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 10 - Sociability, the Internet and Empirical Data in the mid-late 1990s: Communities and Individualization, Social Movements

MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 5 Sociability, the Internet and Empirical Data in the mid-late 1990s: Communities and Individualization. July 3, 2007. Google Video (32 mins.):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1643941818365401458

Oct 31 07 Soc and Info Tech class transcript

Week 11 - Social Movements (cont.);  The New Economy: Technology and Productivity, Globalization of Finance

Notes from this week's transcript:

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/w/page/32539832/InfoTechSoc10_2010FA

http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/w/page/InfoTechSoc11_2010FA

past transcripts:

Nov 6 2007 Soc and Info Tech Class Transcript

Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen:

Week 12 - The New Economy: Technology and Productivity, Globalization of Finance (cont.)

Nov 14 2007 Soc and Info Tech Class Transcript

Week 13 - Globalization of Finance (cont.)

Nov 21 2007 Soc and Info Tech Class Transcript

Week 14

- Globalization of Finance (cont.)

- The New World Disorder: War and Peace in the Age of the Internet

Nov 28 2007 Soc and Info Tech Class Transcript

Week 15

- Informational Politics and the Network State

Dec 5 07 Soc & Info Tech Class Transcription

Week 16 - Last class

- Informational Politics and the Network State (cont.)

- The Future of the Internet and the Network Society

Dec 12 07 Soc & Info Tech Class Transcription