CSC300H1S: Computers and Society

• Nicholas Negroponte, Chapter 1, "The DNA of Information," Being Digital, Alfred Knopf, 1995.
• Susan Leigh Star and Geoffrey Bowker, "Residual Categories as a challenge for ethics, information systems, and communication," Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 273-280.
• Kevin Driscoll, "From Punched Cards to "Big Data": A Social History of Database Populism," communication +1, Vol. 1, Article 4.

• Donald Mackenzie and Judy Wajcman, Introductory Chapter The Social Shaping of Technology, Second Edition, edited by Donald Mackenzie and Judy Wajcman, Open University Press, 1999.
• Batya Friedman and Peter H. Kahn, Jr. (2003). "Human values, ethics, and design." In J. A. Jacko and A. Sears (Eds.), The human-computer interaction handbook, 1177-1201. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

• Langdon Winner, "Chapter 2. Do artifacts have politics?" The Social Shaping of Technology, Second Edition, edited by Donald Mackenzie and Judy Wacjman, Open University Press, 1999.
• Michael J. Quinn, "Chapter 1. Catalysts for Change" Ethics for the Information Age, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, 2013.
• (Podcast) CBC Spark 214: Listen, Touch, Command, portions on the Keyboarding 101

• Kenneth Keniston, "Introduction: The four digital divides." in IT experience in India: Bridging the digital divide, edited by Kenneth Keniston and Deepak Kumar New Delhi: Sage, 2004. (More readable PDF on piazza)
• (Video) Hans Rosling, "The best stats you've ever seen"
• C.K. Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart, "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid," strategy+business, issue 26, first quarter, 2002.

• (Podcast) CBC Ideas on Talking Philosophy: Democracy Parts 1 & 2
• Jeanette Hofmann, "Chapter 17. Writers, texts, and writing acts: gendered user images in word processing software," The Social Shaping of Technology, Second Edition, edited by Donald Mackenzie and Judy Wacjman, Open University Press, 1999.
• Bruno Latour, "Chapter 10. 'Where are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts." Technology and Society, Building Our Sociotechnical Future edited by Deborah G. Johnson and Jameson M. Wetmore, The MIT Press, 2009.

• Sherry Turkle, Chapter 14, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, Basic Books, 2011.
• D. Fox Harrell and Sneha Veeragoudar Harrell, "Imagination, Computation, and Self-Expression: Situated Character and Avatar Mediated Identity," Leonardo Electronic Almanac. DAC 09: After Media: Embodiment and Context. Vol. 17, no. 2, January 2012, pp. 74-91.
• G. H. Mead, (1934). Mind, self, and society from the standpoint of a social behaviorist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (pp. 135-226)

Guest Lecture: Mayya Sharipova, University of Saskatchewan

• Paul Dourish and Ken Anderson, "Collective Information Practice: Exploring Privacy and Security as Social and Cultural Phenomena," Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 319-342, 2006
• Ann Cavoukian, Big Privacy: Bridging Big Data and the Personal Data Ecosystem Through Privacy by Design, Ontario Information an Privacy Commissioner.
• (optional) Gary T. Marx, "Soft Surveillance: Mandatory Volunteerism and the Collection of Personal Data," Dissent, Volume 52, Number 4, Fall, 2005.
• ACM US Public Policy Council, "Privacy and Security"

• Susan Elliott Sim and Erik B. Stenberg, "Chapter 16: Intellectual Property Law in Source Code Reuse and Remix," in Finding Source Code on the Web for Remix and Reuse edited by Susan Elliott Sim and Rosalva E. Gallardo-Valencia, Springer, 2013.
• (Video) Lawrence Lessig, "Free Culture"
• (Podcast) To the Best of Our Knowledge, "Cultural Commons"

• Eric Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", First Monday, Volume 3, Number 3, 2 March 1998.
• Sara Diamond, "Chapter 3. Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions," Critical Digital Studies: A Reader edited by Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker, University of Toronto Press, 2008.
• Tim O'Reilly, "Chapter 2: Government as a Platform", Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice, edited by Daniel Lathrop and Laurel Ruma, O'Reilly Books, 2010.

Guest Speaker: Kavita Philip, History, UCI

• Kavita Philip, Lilly Irani, and Paul Dourish, "Postcolonial Computing: A Tactical Survey", Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2012.
• Steven Johnson, "Conclusion: The Fourth Quadrant," Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, Riverhead Books, 2010.

• James D. Herbsleb and Rebecca E. Grinter, “Architectures, Coordination, and Distance: Conway’s Law and Beyond,” IEEE Software, September/October, 1999.
• E. Gabriella Coleman, Anonymous in Context: The Politics and Power Behind the Mask, Report for Center for International Governance Innovation, September, 2013.

• Satoshi Nakamoto, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System".
• Tyler Moore and Nicolas Christin, "Beware the Middleman: Empirical Analysis of Bitcoin-Exchange Risk," Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7859, 2013, pp 25-33