Fall 2006
- August 29th: Introduction and film: Steal This Film
- For August 31st
- Stanley Milgram, "The Small World Problem" in The Individual in a Social World, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1977,pps. 281-295. Original Psychology Today article is also here.
- Clifford Geertz, "The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing," The American Economic Review Vol. 68,No. 2, (May, 1978), pp. 28-32.
- For Sept. 5th:
- Michael M.J. Fischer, "Worlding Cyberspace" in Emergent Forms of Life and The Anthropological Voice Duke University Press, 2003
- Christopher Kelty, "Cultures Open Sources" in Anthropological Quarterly 77(3) Summer 2004
- Also read Alex Golub, "Copyright and Taboo" in the same volume.
- For Sept. 7th:
- Read about Connexions. And the Tutorial
- For Tues Sept 12:
- Tarleton Gillespie, "Engineering a Principle: 'End-to-End' in the Design of the InternetSocial Studies of Science 2006 36: 427-457.
- Hannah Knox, Mike Savage, Penny Harvey, "Social networks and the study of relations: networks as method, metaphor and form" Economy and Society Volume 35, Number 1 / February 2006 pp. 113 - 140.
- For Thus Sept 14:
- Susan Leigh Star and Geoffrey Bowker "ICD as Information Infrastructure" in Sorting Things Out, MIT Press, 1999.
- For Tues Sept 19: What is FOSS? Classic FOSS.
- Steven Weber, The Success of Open Source (from the bookstore) Chapter 3 [pages 54-93]. (Optional: Chapter 2 for potted history)
- Matt Ratto, "`Dont Fear the Penguins': Negotiating the Trans-local Space of Linux Development" Current Anthropology 46(5), Dec. 2005
- The writings of Richard Stallman, as much as you can stomach. Some important pieces: "What is Free Software?" "What is copyleft?" and "The GNU Manifesto"
- The ravings of Eric Raymond. Especially "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
- Thus Sept 21: Analyzing FOSS. FOSSicology
- Steven Weber, The Success of Open Source Chapters 5 and 6 [128-189].
- Yochai Benkler,The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom Chapter 3 "Peer Production and Sharing"
- Assignment #1: Remix Benkler
- Tues Sept 26: Class cancelled
- For Thus Sept 28: Anthropologists vs. FOSS
- Background reading on Gift exchange and Barter, Chapters 14 and 15 of A Handbook of Economic Anthropology ed. James G. Carrier, Cheltenham UK, Edward Elger Press, 2005
- Jonathan Parry, "On the Moral Perils of Exchange" in Parry and Bloch eds. Money and the Morality of Exchange Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989
- Christopher Kelty, "Free Software/Free Science"
- OPTIONAL, But FUN: Viviana Zelizer, Chapter 3 of The Social Meaning of Money, New York: Basic Books 1994.
- For Tue Oct 3: Pirates
- Assignment #1 due: Remix Benkler. Present in class. Adrian Johns, "Pop Music Pirate Hunters" Daedalus Spring 2002.
- OPTIONAL: Adrian Johns, "The Great Oscillation Controversy" manuscript (note that this is the manuscript of a spoken talk, and so it lacks images)
- Assignment #2: The Three R's of IP.
- For Thus. Oct 5:
- James Boyle, "The Second Enclosure Movement and the construction of the public domain" 66 Law and Contemporary Problems 33
- Additional readings and sites to consider:
Old vs. New Envrionmentalism
Creative Commons and its many subCommons
Even more Commonsy commons
Debates about freedom and definitions (1 | 2).
- For Tues Oct 10: Remix/Pirate/Promote
- More discussion of intellectual property; please take an
hour or two to explore the three following sites:
- All kinds of illegal art.
- The most original remixers.
- Remixing Source code.
- Thus Oct 12: The genius of the system
- Discussion of Assignment #2;
- Start reading Waldrop, etc. over break.
- Tues Oct 17: No Class, Midterm Recess
- Thus Oct 19: Geek Movie Day: Revolution OS, Assignment #2 Due.
- Tues Oct 24th: Genealogy 1: The Noosphere Or, The Global Brain
- Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" Atlantic Monthly July 1945.
- Paul Ginsparg, "As We May Read" in The Journal of Neuroscience,26(38) September 2006.
- Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine Chapters 1-4 (pgs 7-141)
- In Class: Ted Nelson Computer Lib!
- Assignment #2: Grades due
- Thus Oct 26: Geneaology 2: The Office
- Aspray and Campbell-Kelly, Computer, A History of the Information Machine, pages 1-78
- Friedrich Kittler, Selections from Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, Stanford University Press, 1999 [Brinkman and Bose, Berlin, 1986]
- Optional: Brandon Hookway, Pandemonium: The Rise of Predatory Locales in the Postwar World
- Tues Oct 31: Geneology 3: Interactivity
- Waldrop, The Dream Machine Chapter 5 (pgs 142-195)
- Aspray and Campbell Kelly, Computer, Chapter 10 (233-258)
- Douglas Englebart, "The Mother of all Demos" NLS: the OnLine System.
- Thus Nov. 2: Geek Movie Day "BBS: The Documentary"
- Tues Nov 7: Meanings of the social and social software
- Fred Turner, "Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy" Technology and Culture 46(3) July 2005.
- Peter Druschel "Exploring Social Networks for Internet Search" Unpublished Conference Paper, 2006
- Thus Nov 9: Durkheim and social software
- Emile Durkheim, selections from Rules of Sociological Method originally published in 1895. Read "What is a Social Fact" and "Rules for the Classification of Social Types".
- Tues Nov 14: Arendt and Social Software continued
- Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition Part1 and Part 2. Please read pags 22-78. I've included the prologue and first chapter, for those who want the whole story...
- Assignment #3: Research Proposal and Literature Review
- Thus Nov 16: No Class
- Tues Nov 21: Arendt and Social Software Continued.
- Thus Nov 23: Thanksgiving
- Tues Nov 28:Gifting technologies: A BitTorrent case study by Matei Ripeanu, Miranda Mowbray, Nazareno Andrade, and Aliandro Lima
- Thus Nov 30:
- An empirical examination of Wikipedia's credibility by Thomas Chesney
- Limits of self-organization: Peer production and laws of quality by Paul Duguid
- Tues Dec 5: Presentations
- Thus Dec 7: Presentations