2. Pfaffenberger, Social Meaning of the Personal Computer

3. Explore some Computer History websites

2. Licklider, Man-Computer Symbiosis

3. Rheingold, Tools for Thought, chapter 7.

Book selection due (see a list of suggestions)

2. Watch Computer Networks: Heralds of Resource Sharing

GROUPS:
1. Pelkey, Entrepreneurial Capitalism and Innovation: A History of Computer Communications, 1968-1988, Chapters 1, 3, 5, 11

2. Pelkey, Entrepreneurial Capitalism and Innovation, Chapters 2, 4, 6-8, 10

3. Pelkey, Entrepreneurial Capitalism and Innovation, Chapter 9; Russell, "Rough Consensus and Running Code"; Tao of the IETF

4. Hauben, History of ARPANET; and Lukasik, Why the ARPANET Was Built (access via IEEE library, http://www.stevens.edu/library/research/azlist.html#I)

Group Presentations due in class.

No reading response due this week.

2. Watch Computer Networks: Heralds of Resource Sharing

GROUPS:
5. Abbate, Government, Business, and the Making of the Internet (Moodle); and Abbate, Privatizing the Internet (access via IEEE library, http://www.stevens.edu/library/research/azlist.html#I)

6. Shaiman, Political Economy of OSI (Moodle)

7. History of the WWW; How it all started; Wikipedia entry for History of the WWW; Kirsch and Goldfarb, "Get Rich Fast"

Group Presentations due in class.

No reading response due this week.

Choose topics for Week 9 group reports

GROUPS:

1. The American Revolution:
- Schlesinger, "Colonial Printers and the Stamp Act" (Moodle)
- Botein, "'Meer Mechanics' and the Open Press" (Moodle)

2. South Africa:
- Garrett and Edwards, "Revolutionary Secrets" (Moodle)
- Edwards and Hecht, History and the Technopolitics of Identity

3. The Ukraine and Burma
- Goldstein, Role of Digital Networked Technologies
- Chowdhury, Role of the Internet in Burma's Saffron Revolution

4. Moldova
- Morozov, Moldova's Twitter Revolution (3 parts)

5. Tunisia
- Ryan, The Tragic Life of a Street Vendor
- Ryan, How Tunisia's Revolution Began

6. Egypt
- McQuillan, Lessons from the Egyptian Shutdown
- Darnton, 1789-2011?
- BBC: Profile: Wael Ghonim
- Karr, One US Corporation's Role

7. England
- Penny, Panic on the Streets of London
- Fuchs, Social Media and the UK Riots

8. Israel and the United States
- NY Times, Summer of Protest in Isreal Peaks
- Stoller, The Anti-Politics of Occupy Wall Street
- Rushkoff, Think Occupy Wall St. is a Phase? You don't get it
- Hardt and Negri, The Fight for 'Real Democracy'

2. Collins, Whatever Happened to Second Life?

3. Reagle, Do As I Do: Leadership in Wikipedia

4. Wolf, Why Craigslist is Such a Mess

2. Staudenmaier, "Computerization" (Moodle)

3. Ensmenger, Computers as Ethical Objects

4. Nissenbaum, How Computer Systems Embody Values

5. IEEE Code of Ethics

6. ACM Code of Ethics

See also:
- The "Mission" and "Issues" sections of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility website
- AIEE Code of Principles of Professional Conduct (March, 1912), AIEE Transactions Volume 31, Part 2, pages 2227-2230.
- And so on...

1. Ethics
- Revisit pp 15-20 in Friedman, Kahn, and Borning, Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems
- Revisit the IEEE Code of Ethics, the ACM Code of Ethics, and the Mission of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

2. Privacy and Carrier IQ
- Varian, Economic Aspects of Personal Privacy
- Schneier, The Eternal Value of Privacy
- Wikipedia, Data Protection Directive
- Wood, How Facebook is Ruining Sharing
- Engadget, Carrier IQ: What You Need to Know

3. SOPA
- McCullough, SOPA's Most Aggressive Defender
- EFF, After the Hearing: SOPA Down But Not Yet Out
- Wikipedia, Stop Online Piracy Act
- Open Congress, HR 3261 - Stop Online Piracy Act

Brief (100-150 words) reading response due on either Privacy and Carrier IQ or SOPA

Final Review Essay due

Take Home Exam (Moodle)

Due Friday December 16th at 3 pm