Information, Images and Inequality
Stephen Adair
This page will be revised over the semester.
Office Hours: Tues. and Thurs. 11-12 and Wed. 9-12
Syllabus, Assignments, Websites and Other Materials
If you have any suggestions for websites to add to those below, please let me know.
Assignments First Set of Projects
Second Set of Projects
Because of the snow cancellations, the midterm is scheduled for Thursday, March 20. Click here for the review sheet for the exam.
How to Write a Critical Book Review
Putting References in your Papers
Websites
For resources in cybersociology
Check out the ACTlab, which Allucquere Roseanne Stone directs.
"Selling Wine without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net," By John Perry Barlow. An essay on intellectual property.
Check out this course entitled, Ways of Seeing. Clearly inspired by John Berger's book. See in particular the animations to accompany Walter Benjamin's essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." (a more monitor friendly version of the same essay.)
Amplifications of Berger's Ways of Seeing.
Notes on The Gaze from Daniel Chandler.
The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age The whole book is available online.
A former student of mine, Stephen Ostertag, wrote this useful page on organizations that seek to maintain public and democratic control over new technologies.
Links to organizations that are developing strategies to resist and challenge
the new forms of power and accumulation associated with the "information
age." If you know of additional organizations that should be added to
this list please let me know. all of the websites listed here contain a
wealth of information that could serve as the basis for projects and
papers - a wealth of potential topics.