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Internet and Society Review Sheet Exam 2 Maymester 2014 5/22/2014 great convergence great divergence winner-take-all economy US education system educational attainment gains college premium race gender single parenthood immigration tax policy decline of labor trade corporate boards digital literacy the wired generation informational habitus skhole serious play ‘a taste for the necessary’ PBS NewsHour YouTubevideo Bill Moyers YouTube interview with Susan Crawford Health information-seeking MySpace Facebook White flight networks aesthetics status “Digital Division” “African-Americans and the Internet” “Asian-American and the Internet” “Hispanics and the Internet”
Internet and Society Internet and Society student presentation schedule Students will each present 15-20 minutes on one article of their choice. Use of visual presentations (PowerPoint, Prezi) is strongly encouraged. The graduate and undergraduate presenters each week must not present on the same article.  Every student will present once during the Maymester. To change your day or article, email  gignatow@gmail.com. May Grad presenter (name) article (author) Undergrad presenter (name) article (author) Week 1 A 12 x x x x B 13 Varela Hargittai Coco Morozov C 14 Ozer Robinson Schulz Haseman Tepper, Castells D exam Week 2 A (mon) 19 Gerling Why? Stewart, Watts Economides, Tufekci B (tues) 20 Celebi Hargittai McDowell Robinson C (wed) 21 Ash-Houchen Boyd Najera, Warren, Elliott, Kim Percheski, Pew Study (1), Asian-Americans D (thurs) exam Week 3 A (tues) 26 Gurbuz, Zabun Ignatow Schuett Huckabee Hargittai B (tues) 27 Demirhan, Yilmaz Shirsky Grah
Week 2 videos 10 minutes, PBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X537MiN6COI 50 minutes, Bill Moyers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBjxzkFIy7Q
Internet and Society ReviewSheet Exam 1 May 15 2014 DARPA utopias dystopias social equality cosmopolitanism democratic participation eliminating the most unpleasant, routine, boring aspects of work entertainment options economic growth global cooperation information overload shorter attention spans "new class" / digital elites digital "black holes" (Manuel Castells) Internet: The Mainstreaming of Online Life Evgeny Morozov The Wrong Way to Discuss New Technologies technological defeatism technological solutionism camera technology noise abatement campaigns Manuell Castells, The Network Society information capitalism knowledge economy (Drucker) postindustrial society (Touraine 1971; Bell 1976) information society Fritz Machlup’s 1962 study “The production and distribution of knowledge in the United States” “knowledge industry” “symbolic analysts” (Bell 1973) Economic growth Social inequality incre
Internet and Society Review Sheet Exam 1 May 15 2014 DARPA utopias dystopias social equality cosmopolitanism democratic participation eliminating the most unpleasant, routine, boring aspects of work entertainment options economic growth global cooperation information overload shorter attention spans "new class" / digital elites digital "black holes" (Manuel Castells) Internet: The Mainstreaming of Online Life Evgeny Morozov The Wrong Way to Discuss New Technologies technological defeatism technological solutionism camera technology noise abatement campaigns Manuell Castells, The Network Society information capitalism knowledge economy (Drucker) postindustrial society (Touraine 1971; Bell 1976) information society Fritz Machlup’s 1962 study “The production and distribution of knowledge in the United States” “knowledge industry” “symbolic analysts” (Bell 1973) Economic growth Social inequality incr
Day 1 videos: History of the Internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKi-cj39-xg Evgeny Morozov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOvaNzIxz54