IS 246, UCLA  Fall 1999
Wed 17:00-20:00, 121 GSE&IS Bldg
taught by Howard Besser

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Student Papers

• Snowden Becker

From Edith Wharton to A Bathing Ape: How new mass media feeds the old-fashioned rarity fetish
Introduction | Coolness as conformity | Fashion and the rise of youth culture | Smoke 'em if you got 'em (or if you can find 'em)... | Knowing cool | Why we do it | References | Recommended reading and viewing | Footnotes
• Karen Chiang

Immigration in the High Tech World: The H-1B Controversy
• Mary Garber

UCITA: Contract Rights Supersceding Rights of Public Good  (not available)
• Lisa Z Gutierrez

The Impact of Technology on Animation
• Marla R. Gunasegaram

The Effects of New Technology on Corporate Culture
• Lisa Hall

Distance Education in the Electronic Age  (not available)
• Brian Hoffman

The Cinderella Complex: Copyright and Creativity  (not available)
• Craig Anders Johnson

Ethical Issues Relating to Technology in Hospitals: The Changing Definition of Confidentiality in Health Care and The Challenges Due To Use of New Technologies and Computer-Based Patient Records  (not available)
• M. Kirby

Threats to Privacy in the Information Age
 Threats to Privacy in the Information Age | E-mail and the Web | Computers and the Web | Supermarket Club Cards | What You Can Do | Bibliography
• Bradley Kottke

The Avatar
• Molly Fournier Krill

Privacy in an Electronic Age  (not available)
• Aura Lippincott

Music Distribution on the Web
• Rachel Napper

MP3 and Intellectual Property
• Nelson Tang

Differences in Women's and Men's Usage of E-mail
• Vinicio Vazquez

Sex, Lies, Apples, and AOL
• Ching-ning Wang

Communication Technology and the Retreat of the State
• Cynthia Zugaib Westover

To Hell in a Hand-Basket?
Techno-Utopian Futurist Perspectives and the Dystopian Perspectives They Spawn