Schedule of Readings
(see also instructor's prospectus
for each class)
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Click
on the title for each class to see the instructor's advance
prospectus for the class.
Readings not marked with one of the following
icons are from required books
for the course:
= Reader 
= Online Only  =
Assignment Due 
= Supplementary Links
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The
Age of Knowledge Work |
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CLASS 2:
Jan. 13 |
"LEARNING
ORGANIZATIONS"
(click
on the title of each class to see the instructor's prospectus
for the class) |
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- Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
(1942), pp. 82-84
(on "creative destruction")
- Boyett and Conn, Workplace 2000 (1992), pp. 1-58,
276-83
- Peter F. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society (1993),
pp. 19-47
- Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline (1990), pp.
3-16
- [Optional: William H. Davidow and Michael
S. Malone, The Virtual Corporation (1992), pp.
184-205, 214-16 ]
- (notes
to facilitate class discussion)
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CLASS 4:
Jan. 20 |
"SYMBOLIC
ANALYSTS" |
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- Daniel Bell, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society
(1973), pp. 76-80, 112-19, 174-77, 212-21, 358-64
- Robert B. Reich, The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves
for 21st-Century Capitalism (1991), pp. 3-9, 81-91,
171-84, 268-81, 301-305
- [Optional: Browse Palinurus:
The Academy and the Corporation ]
- (notes
to facilitate class discussion)
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CLASS 5:
Jan. 25 |
PROJECT
WORKSHOP 1 |
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- [Workshop for Online Projects]
- Begin reading ahead for next class
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Introduction
to the Prehistory & History of Information
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Acts
of Information, 1948-2000 |
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CLASS 13:
Feb. 22 |
COMMUNICATING
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Between Classes 13 and 16, each team is
assigned one other team's project to critique.
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CLASS 14:
Feb. 24 |
MEDIATING
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- Hans Magnus Enzensberger, "Constituents of a Theory
of the Media" (1974), [in Druckrey]
- Baudrillard, "Requiem for the Media" (1972)
- Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing
of the Word (1982), pp. 135-38
- (notes
to facilitate class discussion)
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CLASS 17:
Mar. 7 |
(Continued)
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- Roger Chartier, The
Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France
(1987), pp. 158-67, 180-82
- Johanna Drucker, The Visible Word: Experimental Typography
and Modern Art, 1909-1923 (1994), pp. 91-104, 238-47
- Jan Tschichold, The New Typography (1928), pp.
52-99
- Matt Kirschenbaum, "A
White Paper on Information" (1998)
- (notes
to facilitate class discussion)
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CLASS 18:
Mar. 9 |
SIMULATING |
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- Borgmann, Chap. 14
- Steven Johnson, Interface Culture, Chap. 1
- Kim H. Veltman, "Electronic Media: The Rebirth
of Perspective and the Fragmentation of Illusion"
(1995) [in Druckrey]
- Jonathan Steur, "Defining Virtual Reality,"
Journal of Communication 42 (1992): 79-90
- Brenda Laurel, Computers as Theatre (1992), pp.
1-22
- Slavoj Zizek, "From Virtual Reality to the Virtualization
of Reality" (1996) [in Druckery]
- William Gibson, "Academy Leader" (1991)
- (notes
to facilitate class discussion)
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Art
2000 |
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