CS 3043 Social Implications of Information Processing
A-Term 1999

Reading Assignments

Due Date Topics and Reading Assignments
08/26 Introduction
08/30 Utopian and Dystopian Views
  • In Library/Handed Out:
    • * Kelly, Kevin. "The Electronic Hive - Embrace It"
    • * Birkerts, Sven. "The Electronic Hive - Refuse It"
09/02 Humans in Electronic Community
  • In Library:
    • * "Terminal Therapy" Alexander, Psychology Today, Sept. 1978, pp. 50-60
    • Introduction to Computer Power and Human Reason, from Judgment to Calculation by Weizenbaum, WH Freeman and Company, 1976, pp. 1-16.
    • "Some Pros and Cons of Computer-Assisted Psychotherapy", Colby et.al., The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1989, Vol. 177 No. 2, pp. 105-108.
    • * Boston Globe article 3/2/97: Weinstein, ``More and more college students getting hooked on the Net"
    • Jeremy Rifkin, Time Wars, pp. 11-28 "The New Nanosecond Culture"
  • From Textbook:
    • "On the Impact of the Computer on Society", Weizenbaum, pp. 549-558.
    • "From Slide Rule to Computer: Forgetting How it Used to be Done", Petroski, pp. 449-455.
  • * Time Magazine article October 12, 1998, "Hooked Online" by D. Seaman. http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/981012/time_select.quarterly_b3a.html
09/06 No Class (Labor Day)
09/09 Ethics and Professional Responsibilities
  • * "Professional Ethics" Johnson, pp. 559-572
  • * "Codes of Ethics" Martin, pp. 576-579
  • * "ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct", pp. 598-605, or http://www.acm.org/constitution/code.html
  • * IEEE-CS/ACM Software Engineering Code of Ethics. http://www.acm.org/serving/se/code.htm
  • * "Persuasive Technologies: Introduction", Fogg, CACM, 1999, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 26-29.
  • "Toward an Ethics of Persuasive Technology", Berdichevsky and Neunschwander, CACM, 1999, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 51-58.
09/13 Information Technology in the Workplace
  • * "Electronic Interaction in the Workplace: Monitoring, Retrieving and Storing Employee Communications in the Internet Age", Sections 1, 2, and 3. http://www.mlb.com/speech1.htm
09/16 Reliability and Liability
09/20 Intellectual Property Crimes and Hackers
  • * "CASE: The Computer Worm" - Eisenberg, pp. 60-88
  • * "Are Computer Property Rights Absolute?" - Stallman, pp. 115-119
  • * "Are Computer Hacker Breaker-Ins Ethical?" - Spafford, pp. 125-134
  • * "Avant! case bogged down in legal skirmishes" http://www.sjmercury.com/business/center/avant112398.htm
09/23 Student Presentations - 1
09/27 Student Presentations - 2
09/30 Constitutional Issues
  • * "An Electronic Soapbox", Jensen, pp. 678-693
  • * "Battle of the Clipper Chip", Levy, pp. 651-664
  • "The Government Needs Computer Matching to Root Out Waste and Fraud", Kusserow, pp. 299-304
  • "Computer Matching is a Serious Threat to Individual Rights", Shattuck, pp. 305-309
10/04 Privacy
10/07 Power and Access Issues
  • "The National Information Infrastructure: A Public Interest Opportunity", Chapman, pp. 628-644
  • At the library:
    • * Fulda, "Technological Advances: Who Benefits Most?"
    • * Danowitz, "Cyberspace across the Sahara"
    • * Hopper, "Politics on the Web"
* Readings marked with an asterisk do not require notecards.