Lecture slides will be posted at: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/sharespaces/space/eaj6/6872

 

Week 1

Thursday, July 23       The Information Perspective; What is Information?

1. What to have read:  
   

2. •Debons, Anthony. (2008). Introduction to information. Information Science 101, pp. 1-25. Ereserve.
   

3. •Information science. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_science
   

4. What’s due:
   

5. •Think about this: For you, what is Information? (No need to write anything down, unless you want to.)
   

Week 2

Monday, July 27    History & Structure of the Internet

1. What to have read:   
   

2. •Strickland, Jonathan. How did the Internet start? HowStuffWorks. http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet-start.htm/printable
   

3. •Leiner, Barry M., Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Lawrence G. Roberts, & Stephen S. Wolff. (February 1997). The past and future history of the Internet. Communications of the ACM 40(2), pp. 102-108. Ereserve.
   

4. •Tyson, Jeff. How Internet infrastructure works. HowStuffWorks. http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet-infrastructure.htm/printable
   

5.     Optional:
   

6. •Anderson, Janna Q. & Lee Rainie. (14 December 2008). The future of the Internet III. Elon University; Pew Internet & American Life Project, pp. 1-13. http://www.elon.edu/docs/e-web/predictions/2008_survey.pdf
   

7. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

8. •Nothing to turn in.
   

9. •12:15 - 1:20 PM: Mini-Lab - Information is Everywhere
   

Tuesday, July 28    Search: Technology and Business

1. What to have read:  
   

2. •Battelle, John. (2005). Who, what, where, why, when, and how (much). The Search, pp. 19-37. Ereserve.
   

3. •Liddy, Elizabeth. (May 2001). How a search engine works. Searcher 9(5). Ereserve.
   

4. •Battelle, John. (2005). Search before Google. The Search, pp. 39-60. Ereserve.
   

5. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

6. •Reading Response 1 due by 10:20 AM
   

7. •12 - 1:20 PM: Lab - Search
   

Wednesday, July 29    Search: Technology and Business

1. What to have read:   
   

2. •See 7/28
   

3. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

4. •Group Presentation (Search)
   

Thursday, July 30    Knowledge Organization & Information Architecture

1. What to have read:  
   

2. •Rosenfeld, Louis & Peter Morville. (2007). The anatomy of information architecture. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, pp. 39-49. Ereserve.
   

3. •Bowker, Geoffrey & S. Leigh Star. (2000). Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 33-50. Ereserve.
   

4.     Optional
   

5. •Rowley, Jennifer & Richard Hartley. (2008). Knowledge, information and their organization, and Formatting and structuring knowledge. Organizing Knowledge: An Introduction to Managing Access to Information, pp. 1-54. Ereserve.
   

6. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

7. •Quiz 1: The Information Perspective, History and Structure of the Internet, Search
   

8. •Reading Response 2 due by 10:20 AM
   

9. •12 - 1:20 PM: Lab - Knowledge Organization & Information Architecture
   

Week 3

Monday, August 3    Knowledge Organization & Information Architecture

1. What to have read:   
   

2. •See 7/30
   

3. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

4. •Group Presentation (KO/IA)
   

Tuesday, August 4 Information Behavior

1. What to have read:   
   

2. •Read: Case, Donald O. (2007). Information behavior: An introduction; and Common examples of information behavior. In Looking for Information. London: Elsevier, pp. 1-39. Ereserve.
   

3. •Skim: Fisher, Karen E., Landry, Carol F., & Naumer, Charles M. (2007).  Social spaces, casual interactions, meaningful exchanges: An information ground typology based on the college student experience. Information Research 12(2).  http://informationr.net/ir/12-2/paper291.html 
   

4. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

5. •Reading Response 3 due by 10:20 AM
   

6. •11:30 - 1:20 PM: Lab - Information Behavior
   

Wednesday, August 5    Information Behavior

1. What to have read:  
   

2. •Chatman, Elfreda. (1996). The impoverished life world of outsiders. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47 (3) pp. 193 - 206. Ereserve.
   

3. •Information literacy: Critical skills for a changing world. (2004). Chicago: ALA. Ereserve.
   

4. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

5. •Group Presentation (Info Behavior)
   

Thursday, August 6 Human-Computer Interaction

1. What to have read:   

1. •Sharp, Helen, Yvonne Rogers, & Jenny Preece. (2007). What is Interaction Design? In Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 1-40. Ereserve.

2. •Browse around the various “fails” at: http://usabilityfail.com/
   

3. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

4. •Quiz 2: Knowledge Organization & Information Architecture, Information Behavior
   

5. •Reading Response 4 due by 10:20 AM
   

6. •11:30 AM - 1:20 PM: Lab - Human-Computer Interaction
   

Week 4

Monday, August 10    Human-Computer Interaction

1. What to have read:   
   

2. •See 8/6
   

3. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

4. •Group Presentation (HCI)
   

Tuesday, August 11 Intellectual Property

1. What to have read:   
   

2. •United States Copyright Office. (2008). Copyright Basics. [Circular 1]. http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf
   

3. •Vaidhyanathan, Siva. (3 July 2001). Why Thomas Jefferson would love Napster. MSNBC.com. http://elastico.net/copyfight/upload/siva_jefferson.pdf
   

4. •Jaffe, Adam & Joshua Lerner. (2006). Today's patent system at work. In Innovation and Its Discontents, pp. 25-55. Ereserve.
   

5. •Pollack, Andrew. (20 April 2001). Defensive drug industry: Fueling clash over patents. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/20/world/defensive-drug-industry-fueling-clash-over-patents.html&pagewanted=print
   

6.     Also check out:
   

7. •Chilling Effects Clearinghouse:  http://www.chillingeffects.org/
   

8. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

9. •Reading Response 5 due by 10:20 AM
   

Wednesday, August 12    Intellectual Property

1. What to have read:
   

2. •See 8/11
   

3. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

4. •Group Presentation (IP, Privacy)
   

5. •11:30 AM - 1:20 PM: Lab - Intellectual Property
   

Thursday, August 13 Privacy

1. What to have read:   
   

2. •Rachels, James. (Summer 1975). Why privacy is important. Philosophy and Public Affairs 4(4), pp. 323-33. Ereserve.
   

3. •DeCew, Judith. (2006). Privacy. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/privacy/
   

4. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

5. •Quiz 3: HCI, Intellectual Property
   

6. •Reading Response 6 due by 10:20 AM
   

Week 5

Monday, August 17 Information Security & Digital Government

1. What to have read:   
   

2. •Zittrain Jonathan. (2007). Saving the internet. Harvard Business Review 85(6),  pp. 49-59. Ereserve.
   

3. •Skim: Palmer, C. C. (2001). Ethical hacking. IBM Systems Journal 40(3). Ereserve.
   

4. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

5. •Group Presentation (Security, eGov)
   

6. •12 - 1:20 PM: Lab - Privacy & Security
   

Tuesday, August 18 Digital Government; Online Communities and Social Networking

1. What to have read:
   

2. • Lessig, Lawrence. (2006). Cyberspaces. Code 2.0. New York: Basic Books, pp. 83-114. Ereserve.
   

3. •Browse: USA.gov: http://www.usa.gov AND DirectGov: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/index.htm; Think about how the two compare in terms of resources offered & ease of use

4. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

5. •Reading Response 7 due by 10:20 AM
   

Wednesday, August 19    Entrepreneurship & Cutting Edge Systems

1. What to have read/watched:   
   

2. •Von Hippel, Eric. (2005). Introduction and overview. Democratizing Innovation, pp. 1-17. Ereserve.
   

3. •Wesch, Michael. (2007). The machine is us/ing us (final version).
   

4.     Also check out these websites:
   

5. •Engadget - www.engadget.com
   

6. •Wired (Tech Biz) - www.wired.com/techbiz
   

7. •Lifehacker (Top) - www.lifehacker.com/tag/top
   

8. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

9. •Group Presentation (Entrepreneurship, Cutting Edge)
   

10. •12 - 1:20 PM: Lab - Cutting Edge Systems & Social Networking
    

Thursday, August 20    Conclusions

1. What to have read:
   

2. •Nothing - study for the Final Quiz!
   

3. What’s due/what’s happening:
   

4. •Final Quiz: Comprehensive, but with emphasis on later lectures (Privacy, Security, eGov, Online Communities, Cutting Edge Systems)