Jan 8

Introduction to the course

• What is this class about?  (see main homepage, previous class versions)
• Discussion of Working Groups (see list of potential Working Groups)
• Reading Assignments for next week (see next week's listing)
• Recent News Articles
• NY Times Technology Pages
• NY Times CyberTimes
• NY Times CyberLaw
• D-Lib Magazine
• Reading Assignments for next week (see next week's listing)
• Preliminary formation of Working Groups

 

 
 
 

Tues Jan 30 LACASIS event:  Karen Coyle talking on campus, The Internet and Web Privacy

Jan 15

holiday--No class

Wed Jan 17, 6-9 PM, room 245 (make-up class)

Background, History, Review of Terminology
Deconstruction of Social Phenomena

The Internet and changing social structures

• Before class read:
• Besser, Howard. (1998). The Shape of the 21st Century Library, in Milton Wolf et. al. (eds.), Information Imagineering: Meeting at the Interface, Chicago: American Library Association, pages 133-146
• Besser, Howard. (1995). The Information SuperHighway: Social and Cultural Impact Chapter from Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information, edited by Jim Brook and Iain Boal, City Lights Books, 1995
• Besser, Howard. (1994). Movies-on-demand May Significantly Change the Internet appeared in the October 1994 ASIS Bulletin theme issue on Entertainment Technology and Information Services
• Recent News Articles
• Finalizing formation of Working Groups
• Reading Assignments for next week (see next week's listing)

Jan 22  (begin meeting in room 121 for rest of quarter)

Continued discussion on technology and changing social structures

• Before class read the following from Brook & Boal's Resisting the Virtual Life:
• Gandy, Oscar, It's Discrimination, Stupid!
• Carlsson, Chris, The Shape of Truth to Come: New Media and Knowledge
• Miller, Laura, Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier
• Sclove, Richard,  Making Technology Democratic
• Henwood, Doug, Info Fetishism
• Brook, James, Reading and Riding with Borges
• Boal, Iain, A Flow of Monsters: Luddism and Virtual Technologies
• Simmons, John, Sade and Cyberspace
• Recent News Articles
• Reading and Working Group Assignments for next week (see next week's listing)
• A Clash of Cultures on the Internet, Howard Besser, San Francisco Chronicle, Aug 25, 1994

Jan 29

Discussion of Working Groups, Final Projects

Issues of electronic distribution of visual media, distribution models

• Recent News Articles
 
• Assignment due:
• A group webpage containing at least a one-paragraph statement of your Working Group focus and goals, plus a suggested list of readings.  When you're satisfied with this webpage, send the URL to Howard.
• Assignment due; read the following:
• MESL Implementation at the Universities by Howard Besser
• the Executive Summary (front matter) and conclusion  (Part V) from  The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Useage of Image Data (final report to the Mellon Foundation)
• The Transformation of the Museum and the Way it's Perceived by Howard Besser
• Raymond, Eric S.  The Cathedral and the Bazaar  1997 (the Linux model of Open-SourceSoftware)

Feb 5

Discussion of Final Projects
Intellectual Property
 
• Recent News Articles

• Assignment due:
• You should have done the following readings:
• Recent Changes to Copyright: Attacks Against the Public Interest, by Howard Besser, November 1999 (a longer version of what appears in March 1999 Peace Review)
• Courtney Love does the math, by Courtney Love, Salon, June 14, 2000
• Look over Howard's Copyright Website
• Your focus group should have watched the 1st science fiction film

Feb 12

Science Fiction Discussion
Reports from Working Groups
Intellectual Property Discussion
Issues of electronic distribution of visual media
 
• Recent News Articles

 
 
• Each focus group should be prepared to give a 10-minute presentation on what they've been doing
• Send a one-paragraph description of your final project to Howard (besser@ucla.edu)

Feb 19

holiday--No class

Feb 26

Distance Learning, Special Topics

Discussion of Focus Group websites
 
• Recent News Articles

• Assignment due: Your focus group should have watched the 2nd science fiction film
• Before class read the following articles  on Distance Learning
• Issues and Challenges for the Distance-Independent Environment, Howard Besser, JASIS, 11/96
• The Impact of Distance-Independent Education, Howard Besser & Maria Bonn, JASIS, 11/96
• Transforming Libraries, Issue #6: Distance Learning, Association of Research Libraries, September, 1998
• Read at least 2 Parts of David Noble's Digital Diploma Mills (1997-99)
• review Howard's Distance Education Links

Mar 5

Class time totally devoted to Working Groups

Mar 12

Digital Longevity

Working Group Final Presentations in Class (approx 15 min each)

Discussion about making your final projects available online
• Recent News Articles
• Review important theories and concepts
• Read:
• Besser, Howard.  Digital Longevity,  in Maxine Sitts (ed.) Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access, Andover MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000, pages 155-166
• Besser, Howard.  Longevity of Electronic Art, submitted to International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting, 2001 (posted while under review)
• review Howard's Longevity website
• Optional (but at least look over)
• Lyman, Peter and Howard Besser (1998). Defining the Problem of our Vanishing Memory: Background, Current Status, Models for Resoltuion, in Margaret MacLean and Ben H. Davis (eds.) Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute
• Besser, Howard.  Digital Preservation of Moving Image Material?, submitted to The Moving Image, Fall 2001  (posted while under review)


Final Papers/Projects due Mar 19 (no late papers!)

Mar 19

Final Student Project Presentations in Class (approx 10 min each)

• Written versions of all final Papers/Projects due (html preferred, linked off Focus Grp site)

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