INFO 380C: INFORMATION IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
Professor William Aspray
Fall 2011
This is a syllabus for both of my sections:
Unique number 28440, M 9 am – noon, UTA 1.208
Unique number 28445, Tu 6 – 9 pm, UTA 1.208
Office: UTA 5.432, catch me before or after class, or email for an appointment to
bill@ischool.utexas.edu. Office phone: 512 471 3877.
Teaching assistant: TBD
Catalog description:
Examines the role of information in human activities, particularly how it shapes and is
shaped by the social and cultural context. Considers how individuals, groups,
organizations, institutions, and society at large create, find, use, understand, share,
transform, and curate information.
Introduction:
This is a new course, required as part of the new masters curriculum. My feeling is that
there is no essential piece of information or theory that every one of our students must
know, but it is important that our students have a general understanding of the ways in
which information scholars study information and information technologies in social and
cultural context. Of the many different themes I could emphasize in the assigned
readings, I selected five:
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Theory
Traditional Library, Archival, and Museum Studies
Digital Divide/Information Around the World
Privacy, Ethics, and Policy
Information Work and Workers
If the course were organized to have all the readings grouped together on any one of these
topics, we would have had approximately two to three weeks of reading for each bullet
listing above. Instead, I have spread these readings out over the entire semester. So in
any given week you are likely to have one or at most two papers about any given topic;
and most weeks we will have readings that address at least four of those bulleted themes.
Individual students who have a particular interest in one of these topics will have an
opportunity for further study of the topic through several of the course assignments.
Weekly readings and questions:
Except for the first and second weeks of the semester, there will be required readings
each week. The required readings will be posted on BlackBoard, so there are no books to
buy or papers to acquire for the class. Each week, you are expected to read the material
carefully, send two questions to me by email (bill@ischool.utexas.edu) - one question
from each of any two of the assigned readings - no later than three hours before the start
of class. The questions should be ones that will stimulate thoughtful class discussion. Be
prepared to discuss all the papers in class. Courteous, thoughtful, active participation in
the class discussion is expected. The weekly required readings are listed later in this
document.
Class presentation:
Later in this document you will find a list of books on the social and cultural study of
information, broadly conceived. It is not a complete list, but it represents a wide range of
topics and approaches. Each student in class will select one book from this list and make
a polished, 15-minute, in-class presentation of the major findings and be prepared to
answer questions/lead class discussion for an additional 5 minutes. You may not select a
book already selected by another student, so you should have several options in mind. I
will set up a lottery to decide the order in which students get to select their book.
Essay review:
Using this same book list, you will choose five books and write an essay review about
them. You should make your selection so that there is a common topic or theme or
method across the five books. The book that you presented about in class may not be
included in the five books, but any other book on the list may. (Thus, several students
may end up selecting some of the same books for their essay review.) Unless you tell me
privately that you do not want your essay review shared with the other students, I will
post it on BlackBoard as a resource for the other students.. You should not confer with
your fellow students about the selection of books; one of the things I will be interested to
see is how you develop a theme that connects your five books to one another. The
maximum length for your review is 1250 words.
Minute madness:
Later in this document you will also find a list of journal articles that are not part of the
assigned weekly readings. You will select one article from the list (again there will be
lottery to determine your selection order), and you will present a no-more-than 120
second discussion of the paper, followed by 60 seconds of quick Q&A on Minute
Madness Day (November 7/8).
Take-home essay:
Finally, you will be required to write an answer to a take-home essay question, which
will be due on December 2 at 5 PM. You will have no less than one week to answer the
question, and your answer may not exceed 750 words. You may consult your notes, any
of the assigned readings, or any publication on the list of books or additional articles.
You may not do a web search, library search, or discuss this assignment with anyone else,
including but not limited to the students in either section of the course.
Behavior:
You are expected to meet the customary guidelines for ethical and professional behavior
in this course.
Grading:
Grades will be determined as follows:
Weekly questions 15% (quality as well as turning them in on time matters)
Class participation 20%
Class Presentation 15%
Essay Review 25%
Minute Madness 10%
Take-home Essay 15%
Assigned reading:
Aug
29/30
First class meeting – no assigned reading
Sept
5/6
The Monday class does not meet this week (university holiday).
For the Tuesday class, there will be no assigned reading. We
will have a special event that Tuesday evening. The Tuesday
students are required to attend, the Monday students are
welcome but not required to attend.
Sept
12/13
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Technology and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 3, 335.
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Rites of distinction and practices of collecting in early
modern Europe. Studies in history and philosophy of
science, 30, 395–424.
 Kinney, B. (2010). The Internet, Public Libraries, and the
Digital Divide. Public Library Quarterly, 29(2), 104-161.
 Peter Drucker, "The Age of Social Transformation," The
Atlantic Monthly, November 1994. Available at:
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learn/drucker.htm
 Patton, J.W. (2000). “Protecting privacy in public?
Surveillance technologies and the value of public places.”
Ethics and Information Technology 2:181-187
Sept
19/20
Sept
26/27
Oct 3/4
 Marx, Leo. 1997. "Technology: The Emergence of a
Hazardous Concept". Social Research, Vol. 64, No. 3.
 Darnton, R. (1984). Philosophers trim the tree of
knowledge: the epistemological strategy of the
Encyclopédie. The great cat massacre and other episodes
in French cultural history, 191–215.
 Donat, E., Brandtweiner, R., & Kerschbaum, J. (2009).
Attitudes and the Digital Divide: Attitude Measurement as
Instrument to Predict Internet Usage. Informing Science,
1237-56.
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Groschwitz, S. F. (2006) Workplace studies and
technological change. In B. Cronin (Ed.), Annual Review of
Library and Information Science, 40, 393-487.
 Blanchette, J.-F. and Johnson, D.G.. (2002). “Data
retention and the Panoptic society: the social benefits of
forgetfulness.” The Information Society 18:33-45
 Langdon Winner, “Mythinformation,” The Whale and the
Reactor
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 Seong-Jae, M. (2010). From the Digital Divide to the
Democratic Divide: Internet Skills, Political Interest, and
the Second-Level Digital Divide in Political Internet Use.
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 7(1), 22-35.
 MacIntosh-Murray, A., & Choo, C. W. (2005). Information
behavior in the context of improving patient safety.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, 56(12), 1332-1345.
 Dourish, P. Anderson, K. (2006). Collective Information
Practice: Exploring Privacy and Security as Social and
Cultural Phenomena. Human-Computer Interaction. 21,
319-342.
 Scott D.N. Cook, "The Structure of Technological
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Oct
10/11
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Oct
17/18
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Bennett, T. (1998). Speaking to the eyes: museums,
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25–35.
Stevenson, S. (2009). Digital Divide: A Discursive Move
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Hutchins, E & Klausen, T. (1996). Distributed
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Frost, Jeana H and Massagli, Michael P. (2008). Social
Uses of Personal Health Information Within
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Happen When Patients Have Access to One Another’s
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Haraway, D. (1984). Teddy bear patriarchy: Taxidermy in
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James, J. (2011). Are Changes in the Digital Divide
Consistent with Global Equality or Inequality? Information
Society, 27(2), 121-128.
William Aspray, IT Offshoring and American Labor,
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 53, no. 7, 962-982.
Jones, M., Schuckman, A., and Watson, K. (2004) The
Ethics of Pre-Employment Screening Through the Use of the
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McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin and James Cook.
2001. “Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks.”
Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 27, pp. 415-444.
Sherman, D. J. (1994). Art, commerce, and the production
of memory in France after World War I. Commemorations:
The politics of national identity, 186–211.
Wanda Orlikowski , Evolving With Notes: Organizational
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Oct
24/25
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Oct 31/
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Nov 7/8
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Wanda Orlikowski, Learning from Notes: Organizational
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Cooperative Work.
Kuhn, Martin. Interactivity and Prioritizing the Human: A
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Barbakoff, A. Libraries Build Autonomy: A Philosophical
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David Neufeld, “Parks Canada, the Commemoration of
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Warschauer, Mark and Morgan Ames. 2010. “Can One
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Hedstrom, M., & King, J. L. (2006). Epistemic
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Nissenbaum, Helen. 2001. “How Computer Systems
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Waddington, David. Locating the wrongness in ultra-violent
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Janet Vertesi, Mind the Gap: The London Underground
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Baym, N.K. (2005). Amateur experts: international fan
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Nov
14/15
Nov
21/22
 Beth Kolko and Cynthia Putnam. Computer Games in the
Developing World: The Value of Non-Instrumental
Engagement with ICTs, or Taking Play Seriously.
International Conference on Information and
Communication Technologies and Development, 2009.
Full Paper.
 Jenna Hartel, Information in the Hobby of Gourmet
Cooking: Four Contexts. Chapter 7 in William Aspray and
Barbara M. Hayes, Everyday Informaton. MIT Press, 2011.
 Levy, D., “Where’s Waldo? Reflections on Copies and
Authenticity in a Digital Environment,” in Authenticity in
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 Catherine Marshall, Digital Copies and a Distributed
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 Mary Niles Maack, "Books and Libraries as Instruments
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Book List for Class Presentation and Essay Review:
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Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet (MIT, 1999).
A. Abbott, The System of Professions (Chicago, 1988)
Atsushi Akera, Calculating a Natural World (MIT 2008)
A. Allen, Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on
Personal Accountability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)
A. Allen, Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide? (Oxford, 2011)
M. Anchordoguy, Computers INC: Japan’s Challenge to IBM
(Harvard, 1990)
Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio, The Jobless Future: SciTech and the Dogma of Work (Minnesota, 1995)
W. Aspray, Chasing Moore’s Law (SciTech, 2004)
W. Aspray and Paul Ceruzzi, eds. The Internet and American
Business (MIT, 2008)
10.
W. Aspray and B.M. Hayes, eds. Everyday Information (MIT,
2011)
11.
W. Aspray, F. Mayadas, and M. Vardi, Globalization and the
Offshoring of Software (ACM, 2006)
12.
C. Avgerou, C. Ciborro, and F. Land. The Social Study of
Information and Communication Technology: Innovation, Actors, and
Contexts (Oxford, 2004)
13.
Stephen Baker, The Numerati (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2008)
14.
Matthew Battles, Library: An Unquiet History (Norton, 2004)
15.
N. Basbanes, Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and
Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the 21st Century (Henry Holt
2003)
16.
N. Basbanes, Patience and Fortitude (Harper Perennial, 2003)
17.
J. Bastian and B. Alexander, Communities and Their Archives
(Facet, 2009)
18.
N. Baym, Personal Connections in the Digital Age (Polity
2010)
19.
K. Benedict, Ethics and the Archival Profession (SAA, 2003)
20.
J. Beniger, The Control Revolution (Harvard 1986)
21.
Y. Benkler, The Wealth of Networks (Yale 2007)
22.
W. Bijker, P. Hughes and T. Pinch, eds., The Social
Construction of Technological Systems (MIT 1987)
23.
A. Bishop, N. van House, P. Buttenfield, B. Schatz, Digital
Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation (MIT 2003)
24.
A. Black, A New History of the English Public Library: Social
and Intellectual Contexts, 1850-1914 (Leicester, 1996)
25.
Alistair Black, D. Muddiman, and H. Plant, The Early
Information Society (Ashgate 2007)
26.
A. Black, S. Pepper, and K. Bagshaw, Books, Buildings, and
Social Engineering (Ashgate 2009)
27.
C. Borgman, Scholarship in the Digital Age (MIT, 2007)
28.
C. P. Bourne and T. Bellardo Hahn, A History of Online
Information Services (MIT, 2003)
29.
G. Bowker, Memory Practices in the Sciences (MIT 2005)
30.
G. Bowker and S. L. Star, Sorting Things Out (MIT, 1999)
31.
Brabazon, T., (ed.), The Revolution Will Not Be Downloaded –
Dissent in the digital age, (Chandos, 2008)
32.
S. Braman, Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power
(MIT, 2006)
33.
Breazeal, Cynthia. Designing Sociable Robots. (MIT, 2002)
34.
G. Brock , The US Computer Industry (Ballinger 1975)
35.
Brooks, Rodney. Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will
Change Us. (Vintage, 2002)
36.
J. Seeley Brown and Paul Duguid, The Social Life of
Information (Harvard Business, 2002)
37.
E. Brynjolfsson and A. Saunders, Wired for Innovation: How
Information is Reshaping the Economy (MIT, 2010)
38.
P. Boczkowski. Digitizing the News (MIT, 2004)
39.
F. Cameron and S. Kenderdine, Theorizing Digital Cultural
Heritage (MIT, 2010)
40.
Carr, Nicholas G., Does IT Matter? (Harvard Business, 2004)
41.
Karin Knorr Cetina, Epistemic Cultures (Harvard, 1999)
42.
A. Chandler and J. Cortada, A Nation Transformed by
Information: How Information has Shaped the United States from
Colonial Times to the Present (Oxford 2003)
43.
J. Cohoon and W. Aspray, eds. Women and Information
Technology (MIT 2006)
44.
J. Cortada, ed. Rise of the Knowledge Worker (ButterworthHeinemann 1998)
45.
J. Cortada, How Societies Embrace Information Technology
Wiley/IEEE Computer Society 2009
46.
J. Cortada, Information Technology as Business History
(Greenwood 1996)
47.
J. Cortada, Before the Computer (Princeton, 2000)
48.
J. Cortada, The Digital Hand (3 vols, Oxford, 2003, 2005,
2007)
49.
R. Coyne, The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive
Digital Media (MIT, 2010)
50.
Luciana D'Adderio, Inside the Virtual Product: How
Organizations Create Knowledge through Software (Research
Studies Press, 2004)
51.
R. Darnton, The Case for Books (Public Affairs, 2010)
52.
C. Davidson and D. Goldberg, The Future of Thinking:
Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (MIT 2010)
53.
M. Deuze, Media Work (Polity, 2007)
54.
S. Douglas, Inventing American Broadcasting (Johns
Hopkins, 1989)
55.
P. Dourish, Where the Action Is: Foundations of Embodied
Interaction (Bradford/MIT 2004)
56.
P. Dourish and G. Bell, Divining a Digital Future: Mess and
Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing (MIT, 2011)
57.
G. Downey, The machine in me: An anthropologist sits among
computer engineers (Routledge, 1998).
58.
Paul Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate
Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT 2010)
59.
Paul Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics
of Discourse in Cold War America (MIT, 1997)
60.
J. English-Lueck, Cultures@Silicon Valley. Palo Alto:
(Stanford, 2002)
61.
N. Ensmenger, The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers,
Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise (MIT 2010)
62.
C. Fischer, America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone
to 1940 (California 1992)
63.
K. Flamm, Creating the Computer (Brookings, 1988)
64.
D. Forsythe, Studying Those Who Study Us: An
Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence, (Stanford, 2001)
65.
D. Garrison, Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and
American Society, 1876-1920 (Free Press, 1979)
66.
Barbara Garson, The Electronic Sweatshop (Penguin, 1989)
67.
D. Grier, When Computers Were Human (Princeton, 2007)
68.
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J., eds. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. (MIT,
2008)
69.
David Hakken, Cyborgs@Cyberspace? An Ethnographer
Looks to the Future, (Routledge, 1999)
70.
David Hakken, The Knowledge Landscapes of Cyberspace
(Routledge, 2003)
71.
Kristine C. Harper, Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of
Modern Meteorology (MIT, 2008)
72.
Verne Harris and Terry Cook, Archives and Social Justice: A
South African Perspective (SAA, 2007)
73.
Kathryn Henderson, On Line and On Paper: Visual
Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphics in Design
Engineering (MIT, 1998)
74.
C. Hess and E. Ostrom, Understanding Knowledge as a
Commons: From Theory to Practice (MIT, 2006)
75.
C. Hamilton et al, eds. Refiguring the Archive (Springer,
2002)
76.
K. Hayles, How We Became Posthuman (Chicago, 1999).
77.
M. Hindman, The Myth of Digital Democracy (Princeton,
2008)
78.
Hinds, P.J., Kiesler, S., eds. Distributed Work (MIT, 2002).
79.
M. Hobart and Z. Schiffman, Information Ages: Literacy,
Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution (Johns Hopkins, 2000)
80.
P. Howard, The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy:
Information Technology and Political Islam (Oxford, 2010)
81.
Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wind (Bradford, 1996)
82.
H. Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media
Collide (NYU, revised 2008)
83.
M. Ito, Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children’s
Software (MIT, 2009)
84.
R. Jimerson, Archives Power (ALA, 2009)
85.
Y Kafai et al. Beyond Barbie and Mortal Combat: New
Perspectives on Gender and Gaming (MIT, 2011)
86.
J. Kallinikos, The Consequences of Information: Institutional
Implications of Technological Change (Edward Elgar, 2008)
87.
G. Kunda, Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a
High-Tech Corporation (Temple 2nd ed., 2006))
88.
R. David Lankes, The Atlas of New Librarianship (MIT, 2011)
89.
B. Laurel, Computers as Theater (Addison Wesley 2003)
90.
J. Lave and E. Wenger, Situated Learning (Cambridge, 1991)
91.
L. Lessig, Code Version 2.0 (Basic Books, 2006)
92.
L. Lessig, Remix (Penguin, 2008)
93.
Frank Levy and Richard Murnane, The New Division of
Labor: How Computers are Creating the Next Job Market (Princeton,
2005)
94.
David Levy, Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in
the Digital Age (Arcade, 2003)
95.
Alison Lewis, Questioning Library Neutrality (Library Juice
Press, 2008).
96.
J. Light, From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and
Urban Problems in Cold War America (Johns Hopkins 2003)
97.
L. Liverouw, Alternative and Activist New Media (Polity 2011)
98.
M. Lynch and S. Woolgar, Representation in Scientific Practice
(MIT, 1990)
99.
F. Machlup, Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution, and
Economic Significance (2 vols., Princeton, 1980, 1982)
100.
F. Machlup and U. Mansfield, eds. The Study of Information:
Interdisciplinary Messages (Wiley, 1983)
101.
D. MacKenzie, Knowing Machines (MIT, 1998)
102.
D. MacKenzie and J. Wajcman, The Social Shaping of
Technology (McGraw Hill Education/Open University, 1999)
103.
J. Margolis, Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and
Computing (MIT 2010)
104.
C. Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New Oxford, 1990)
105.
P. Menzel, Peter and F. D’Aluisio,. 2000. Robo Sapiens:
Evolution of a New Species (MIT, 2000)
106.
R.K. Molz, Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public
Library in the Information Age (MIT, 2001)
107.
Nick Monfort and Ian Bogost, Racing the Beam (MIT, 2009)
108.
K. Montgomery, Generation Digital (MIT, 2009)
109.
J. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in
Cyberspace (MIT, 1998)
110.
Bonnie Nardi, A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on
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