CySched

IMS 110: Introduction
to Cyberspace

Dr. Triebwasser
Fall 2000

Tentative Schedule

September 7	Thursday	Introduction "A Politics for Generation X" "Making Microsoft Safe for Capitalism"
September 12	Tuesday	Microsoft
September 14	Thursday	A Brief History of the Universe: From the Big Bang to a MouseClick "The Rise of the Modern Corporation" "Take a Trip into the Future on the Electronic Superhighway"
September 19	Tuesday	Of Technological Revolutions and Social Revolutions Wizards: Prologue, Chapter 1
September 21	Thursday	The Internet: A Technology of Freedom? Wizards: Chapter 2
September 26	Tuesday	Computer and Networking Concepts Wizards: Chapter 3
September 28	Thursday	Computer and Networking Concepts Wizards: Chapter 4
October 3	Tuesday	Computer and Networking Concepts Wizards: Chapter 5, Chapter 6
October 5	Thursday	Computer and Networking Concepts Wizards: Chapter 7
October 10	Tuesday	Computer and Networking Concepts Wizards: Chapter 8, Epilogue
October 12	Thursday	Midterm Exam
October17	Tuesday	Prof. B. O'Connel: Privacy
October 19	Thursday	Cyberspace Politics I Mapping: Chapter 8--"The End of Mass Society?"
October 24	Tuesday	Prof. B. O'Connel: Intellectual Property [University Midterm: Last day to drop courses]
October 26	Thursday	Cyberspace Politics II "The Internet Economy: The World's Next Growth Engine" "The Prosperity Gap" "China Issues Rules/Limit E-Mail and Web Content" (NYTimes) "China blocks internet explosion" (The Guardian )
October 31	Tuesday	Prof. S. Adair: Ideas are Free . . . Except on the Internet "Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net" by John Perry Barlow [at: http://www.eff.org/pub/ Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/idea_economy.article ]
November 2	Thursday	Sex and the Internet Mapping: Chapter 6--"Sex and The Internet" "Cybersex: An adult affair"
November 7	Tuesday	Prof. S. Adair: Self and Community in Cyberspace Mapping: Chapter 3--"SANCTUARY"
November 9	Thursday	Prof. D. Blitz: Data,Information,&Knowledge in the InternetAge
November 14	Tuesday	Prof. J. Harmon: Geographic Databases and the Web
November 16	Thursday	Cyberaddiction Mapping: Chapter 5--"Caught in the Web" *Term Papers Due*
November 21	Tuesday	Discussion of individuals' term papers
November 23	Thursday	*Thanksgiving Break (Nov. 22-26)*
November 28	Tuesday	Prof. J Harmon: Maps on the Web Mapping: Chapter 7--"Social Transform/Spacial Transform"
November 30	Thursday	The Telecommunications Act of 1996 "Overview of the Act" "The Telecommunications Act of 1996 Two Years Later" "Cable Rates Rising as Industry Nears End of Regulation" "The Great Digital Giveaway"
December 5	Tuesday	Concentration in the Media Industries "Infobahn Warrior" "Free the Media" "The Corporatization of Publishing" "The National Entertainment State" (Chart) "The Crushing Power of Big Publishing"
December 7	Thursday	Cyberspace and Democracy Mapping:Chapter10--"CyberspaceDemocracy&SocialBehavior" "The Digital Divide"
December 12	Tuesday	The Future Mapping: Coda--"Beyond the Year 2000 in Cyberspace"
December 14	Thursday	Review
December 21	Thursday	Final Exam (11 am - 1 pm)