This is a readings-based discussion seminar
focussing on some of the most urgent debates today concerning computer
technology. These include
military research, medical care, state and local terrorism, surveillance, sex,
privacy and expression, opensource economics and ideology, cultural contexts,
and community. The goal of
the course is to help students to develop critical approaches to their own
professional practices, and to the social, ethical, legal, and economic
consequences of computer technologies.
Students will organize and present papers in a
miniature conference on these themes.
Guest lecturers may be invited.
History of the computing and the Internet
World
War Two: Cybernetics, Communication, and Control
The
Cold War: Coding and Closing the World
From Englebart to the World Wide Web
Intellectual Property
Open
Source
Gift
Economy vs. capitalism
Free
Software Foundation
Professional Ethics
Teaching
and learning
Industry,
professionalism
Research:
Human subjects
Simulation, Games, and Presentations of Self
Privacy
Sex
vs. pornography
Play vs. e ntertainment
Computer-augmented medicine
Visualization
to mediation
Telesurgery
Ubiquitous computing, sensors and Surveillance
Security,
civil liberties and permanent war
Politics of Presence
WWW,
Blog, YouTube
Theater
and Spectacle: Artaud, Debord
Phenomenology:
Heidegger On Technology
Alternatives?
Community
technologies
Technologies
of performance
Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Ivan da Costa
Marques
Cornell
STS
DIAC Directions and Implications of Advanced
Computing Conference
https://www.cpsr.org/act/events/diac/
MIT
Technology and Culture
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Anthropology/21A-340JFall2003/CourseHome/index.htm
MIT Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-805Fall-2005/CourseHome/index.htm
MIT
Anthropology of Computing, Fall 2004
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Anthropology/21A-350JFall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Science and
Technology Studies
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/sts/grad/readinglist_technology.html
UC Davis
STS
UC Irvine
STS
Stanford University
Computers, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
http://cse.stanford.edu/class/cs201/
Waterloo
CS 492 The Social Implications of Computing
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/current/courses/course_descriptions/cDescr/CS492.shtml
University of Saskatchewan
CMPT 408 Ethics and Computer Science
http://www.cs.usask.ca/classes/index.jsp?subject=CMPT&class=408§ion=T2
Queen's University
CISC 497 Social, Ethical, and
Legal Issues, in Computing
http://www.cs.queensu.ca/home/cisc497/