CyberWatch
A Critical Look at How the Media Views New Technologies

Cyberwatch is a group of students enrolled in Howard Besser's class entitled Impact of New Information Resources. The class is a Winter Term 1996 course offered by the School of Information at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

The specific purpose of CyberWatch is to research, observe and analyze the way the media views and portrays new technologies like the internet. The group will be focusing on four types of media: television, magazines, newspapers and internet sources such as usenet groups, etc. We will compare content, availability and presentation of each of these formats.

Outrage of the Week!

Each week, we will be selecting an outrageous incident of the media's coverage of new technologies and/or their impact on society.

Group Meeting Notes

Meeting #1 on January 26 (Courtesy of Elisabeth)
Meeting #2 on February 2 (Courtesy of Susan)
Meeting #3 on February 9 (Courtesy of Bill)
Meeting #4 on February 16 (Courtesy of Elisabeth)
Meeting #5 on March 1 (Courtesy of Elisabeth)

Readings

• Selected readings chosen by the group relevant to our topic.

• Here are the movies that our group will watch this term:
  • Metropolis (1926)
  • They Live (1988) Group Review and Discussion
  • Movie links provided courtesy of the Internet Movie Database

CyberWatch Web Conferences

• Web-based discussion forums on the following:
  • Hypernews Discussion
  • CyberWatch on The Internet
  • CyberWatch on Magazines
  • CyberWatch on Newspapers
  • CyberWatch on Television

Group Members:

• Susan Howell | personal statement
  
• Elisabeth Klann | personal statement
  
• Frank Potter | personal statement
  
• Bill Robboy | personal statement

Send e-mail to:
cyberwatch@umich.edu

accesses since 1/27/96.

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