INF380C: Information in Social and Cultural Context
Student-Led Reading Discussion with Active Learning Activity
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Week 4/OCT 1: Asking: What Question(s) Might the Following Readings Help us Frame?
***Student-Led Readings: #1; #2; #3
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Akrich, M., “The De-Scription of Technical Objects,” In J. Bijker and J. Law, eds., Shaping
Technology / Building Societyhttp://www.utexas.edu/news/2012/07/19/study-energy-benefitspotential-algae-fuels/ (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992). (EBook)
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Barbakoff, A. , “Libraries Build Autonomy: A Philosophical Perspective on the Social Role of
Libraries and Librarians,” Library Philosophy and Practice (2010). Available at:
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/barbakoff.htm
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Best, M. L. and K. Wade, “The Internet and Democracy: Global Catalyst or Democratic Dud?,”
Bulletin of Science Technology Society 6 (2) (2009). Available at:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.law.harvard.edu/files/12-InternetDemocracy.pdf
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Week 5/OCT 8: Asking: What Question(s) Can the Following Readings Help us Frame?
***Student-Led Readings: #4; #5, #6; #7
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Jaeger, Paul T., John Carlo Bertot, Christine M. Kodama, Sarah M. Katz, and Elizabeth J.
DeCoster, “Describing and Measuring the Value of Public Libraries: The Growth of the Internet
and the Evolution of Library Value,” First Monday 16 (11) (November 2011). Available at:
http://www.firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3765/3074
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Latour, B., “Where are the Missing Masses?” In The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts.
Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change (1992), 225–258.
Available at: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/50-MISSING-MASSES-GB.pdf
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Star, Susan Leigh and James R. Griesemer, “Institutional Ecology, ‘Translations’ and Boundary
Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939,”
Social Studies of Science, 19 (3) (August 1989): 387-420. (JSTOR)
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Warschauer, Mark and Morgan Ames, “Can One Laptop Per Child Save the World’s Poor?”
Journal of International Affairs 64 (1) (2010): 33-51. Available at:
http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/can-one-laptop-child-save-worlds-poor
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Week 6/OCT 15: Seeking: How Can the Following Readings Help Us Find Our Way?
***Student-Led Readings: #8; #9, #10
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Bennett, T. , “Speaking to the Eyes: Museums, Legibility and the Social Order,” In The Politics of
Display Museums, Science, Culture (London-New York: Routledge, 1998), 25–35. Available at:
http://rfrost.people.si.umich.edu/courses/MatCult/content/Bennett.pdf
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Drucker, Peter, “The Age of Social Transformation,” The Atlantic Monthly (November 1994).
Available at: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/95dec/chilearn/drucker.htm
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Heilbroner, R., “Do Machines Make History?” Technology and Culture 8 (3) (1967): 335. (JSTOR)
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Waddington, David, “Locating the Wrongness in Ultra-Violent Video Games,” Ethics and
Information Technology 9 (2) (July 2007): 121-128. Available fulltext through Springer, linked
under databases on lib.utexas.edu
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Week 7/OCT 22: Seeking: How Can the Following Readings Help Us Find Our Way?
***Student-Led Readings: #11; #12; #13
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Klein, H. and D. Kleinman, “The Social Construction of Technology: Structural Considerations,
Science,” Technology & Human Values 27 (January 1, 2002): 28-52. (JSTOR)
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Sherman, D. J., “Art, Commerce, and the Production of Memory in France after World War I,” In
Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity (1994), 186–211. Available at:
http://rfrost.people.si.umich.edu/courses/MatCult/content/Sherman_Memorials.pdf
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Vertesi, Janet, “Mind the Gap: The London Underground Map and Users’ Representations of
Urban Space,” Social Studies of Science 38 (Feb 1, 2008): 7-33. (JSTOR)
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Woolwine, D. E., “Libraries and the Balance of Liberty and Security,” Library Philosophy and
Practice. (2007): 1-17. Available at:
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1147&context=libphilprac
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Hartel, Jenna, “Information in the Hobby of Gourmet Cooking: Four Contexts,” In William Aspray
and Barbara M. Hayes, eds., Everyday Information (MIT Press, 2011). (EBook)
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Week 8/OCT 29: Making: How Can the Following Readings Help Us Understand Our Role(s) in Creating
Information?
***Student-Led Readings: #14; #15; #16; #17
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Black, Alastair and Antony Bryant, “Knowledge Management and Diplomacy,” First Monday 16
(1-3) (January 2011). Available at:
http://www.firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3339/2757
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Doty, Philip, “Privacy, Reading, and Trying Out Identity: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and
Technological Determinism,” In William Aspray and Philip Doty, eds., Privacy in America
(Scarecrow Press, 2011). (EBook)
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Kolko, Beth and Cynthia Putnam, “Computer Games in the Developing World: The Value of NonInstrumental Engagement with ICTs, or Taking Play Seriously,” International Conference on
Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2009. Available at:
http://dub.washington.edu/djangosite/media/papers/Kolko_Putnam_2009.pdf
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Kuhn, Martin, “Interactivity and Prioritizing the Human: A Code of Blogging Ethics,” Journal of
Mass Media Ethics, 22(1): 18–36. Available at:
http://myweb.facstaff.wwu.edu/karlberg/498/readings/Kuhn.pdf
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Resnick, P., “Beyond Bowling Together: Sociotechnical Capital,” In John M. Carroll, ed., HCI in the
New Millenium (AddisonWesley, 2000), 247-272. Available at:
https://www.socialtext.net/data/workspaces/socialmediaberkeley/attachments/syllabus:20071
225213123-0-32017/files/ResnickSTK.pdf
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Week 9/NOV 5: Making: How Can the Following Readings Help Us Understand Our Role(s) in Creating
Information?
***Student-Led Readings: #18; #19; #20
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Blanchette, J.-F. and D. G. Johnson, “Data Retention and the Panoptic Society: The Social
Benefits of Forgetfulness,” The Information Society 18 (2002):33-45. Available at:
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/blanchette/papers/is.pdf
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Dresang, E. T., “Intellectual Freedom and Libraries: Complexity and Change in the Twenty-FirstCentury Digital Environment,” The Library Quarterly 76 (2 )(April 2006): 169-92. (JSTOR)
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Haraway, D., “Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 19081936,” Social Text (1984): 20–64. (JSTOR)
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Maack, Mary Niles, “Books and Libraries as Instruments of Cultural Diplomacy In Francophone
Africa During the Cold War,” Libraries & Culture 36 (Winter 2001): 58-86. (JSTOR)
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Week 10/NOV 12: Having: How Can the Following Readings Help us Understand Our Roles in
Sheltering/Having Information?
***Student-Led Readings: #21; #22; #23; #24
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Dourish, P. and K. Anderson, “Collective Information Practice: Exploring Privacy and Security as
Social and Cultural Phenomena,” Human-Computer Interaction 21 (2006): 319-342. Available at:
http://www.dourish.com/publications/2006/DourishAnderson-InfoPractices-HCIJ.pdf
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Marshall, Catherine, “Digital Copies and a Distributed Notion of Reference in Personal Archives.
In Megan Winget and William Aspray, eds., Digital Media: Technological and Social Challenges of
the Interactive World (Scarecrow Press, 2011). Available at:
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/Digital-Media-Marshall.pdf
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Neufeld, David, “Parks Canada, the Commemoration of Canada, and Northern Aboriginal Oral
History,” In Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, eds., Oral History and Public Memories (Temple
University Press, 2008), 7-30. (EBook)
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Wintroub, M., “Taking Stock at the End of the World: Rites of Distinction and Practices of
Collecting in Early Modern Europe,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 30 (1995): 395–
424. Available at:
http://www.rfrost.people.si.umich.edu/courses/MatCult/content/Wintroub_Collecting.pdf
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Week 11/NOV 19: Making: How Can the Following Readings Help Us Understand Our Role(s) in
Creating Information?
***Student-Led Readings: #25; #26; #27
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Bell, Genevieve, “No More SMS From Jesus: Ubicomp, Religion, and Techno-Spiritual Practices.
Ubicomp 2006,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4206/2006: 141-158. Available at:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFIQFjAA&url=h
ttp%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fdownload%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.88.6858%26re
p%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf&ei=LnkVUImEN8a46gHigoDIBg&usg=AFQjCNG37YiP07zKf3LOJ5DLIjUn5OthQ
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Frost, Jeana H. and Michael P. Massagli, “Social Uses of Personal Health Information Within
PatientsLikeMe, an Online Patient Community: What Can Happen When Patients Have Access to
One Another’s Data,” Journal of Medical Internet Research 10 (3) (2008). Available at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2553248/
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Hutchins, E. and T. Klausen, “Distributed Cognition in an Airline Cockpit,” In Y. Engestrom and D.
Middleton, eds., Cognition and Communication at Work (New York: Cambridge University Press,
1996). Available at: http://hci.ucsd.edu/102a/readings/cockpit-cog.pdf
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Perry. J. et al, “Disability, Inability, and Cyberspace,” In Batya Friedman, ed., Designing
Computers for People: Human Values and the Design of Computer Technology (Stanford, CA:
CSLI Publications, 1998). Available at:
http://pdf.aminer.org/000/239/996/a_new_approach_to_providing_gui_access_for_blind_peo
ple.pdf
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Week 12/NOV 26: Making: How Can the Following Readings Help Us Understand our Role(s) in
Creating Information?
***Student-Led Readings: #28; #29; #30
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Jones, M., A. Schuckman, and K. Watson. The Ethics of Pre-Employment Screening Through the
Use of the Internet. (2004). Available at: http://www.ethicapublishing.com/3CH4.htm
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MacIntosh-Murray, A. and C. W. Choo, “Information Behavior in the Context of Improving
Patient Safety,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 56 (12)
(2005): 1332-1345. Available fulltext through the Library Literature & Information Science
database linked from lib.utexas.edu
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McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and James Cook, “Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social
Networks,” Annual Review of Sociology 27 (2001): 415-444. (JSTOR)
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Patton, J. W., “Protecting Privacy in Public? Surveillance Technologies and the Value of Public
Places,” Ethics and Information Technology 2 (2000): 181-187. Available at:
http://www.its.ohiou.edu/bernt/ITS351/protecting%20privacy%20in%20public%20spaces.pdf
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