Professors Allen Tullos, Carole Meyers
This seminar combines an investigation of the emergence and effects of information age culture with hands-on experience of web site construction for educational or not-for-profit projects.
January 17 -- Introduction. Evaluating web sites. Beginning with Dreamweaver
January 24 -- Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late
January 31 -- Tim Berners-Lee and Mark Fischetti, Weaving the Web
February 7 -- Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning Was the Command Line
February 14 -- Dan Schiller, Digital Capitalism
February 21 -- Mediated Visions: The Techno-nationalism of Globalized India.
Guest: Rohit Chopra, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts. Reading TBA
February 28 -- Review of projects in progress
March 7 -- Issues in Distance Learning. Readings TBA
March 14 Spring Break
March 21 -- Manuel Castells, The Rise of Network Society , 2nd edition
March 28 -- Manuel Castells, The Rise of Network Society , continued.
April 4 -- TBA
April 11 -- Andrew Herman and Thomas Swiss (eds), The World Wide Web and Contemporary
Cultural Theory
April 18 -- Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Anarchist in the Library: How Peer-to-Peer
Networks Are Transforming Politics, Culture, and the Control of Information
April 25 -- Student Presentations
Tim Berners-Lee and Mark Fischetti Weaving the Web
Manuel Castells, The Rise of Network Society , 2nd edition
Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Andrew Herman and Thomas Swiss (eds), The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural
Theory
Dan Schiller, Digital Capitalism
Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning Was the Command Line
Abigail Blanker, Menstruating
Bodies: Intersections in Women's Studies
Steve Bransford, Hillbilly
Music in Atlanta, 1913-1935
Pellom McDaniels, Sporting
Cultures: Pursuit of the American Dream through Sports
Matt Miller, Music
of Black Atlanta, 1950-1970
Nathan Tobey, Alleys
and Mountains: Race, Class, Conflict and Healing in South Africa
Stewart Varner, foucault
and dawkins: the construction and nature of the individual
Lasse Voss, Lasse's Web of Atlanta
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