Schedule of Readings

Week 1, August 23rd Class Introduction

•     Key Concepts & Organize Group Projects

Week 2, August 30th The World We LIve In

•     We Live in Public, Ondi Timoner (available on Netflix, iTunes, Amazon)
•     Erasing David, David Bond (available on iTunes, Amazon)

Week 3, September 6th

•     Memorial Day, No Class

Week 4, September 13th What is Privacy? Why Does it Matter?

•     "Privacy" in Encyclopedia of Philosophy

        http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/privacy/

•     History of Privacy Timeline

        http://bit.ly/9wOfMP

•     Privacy in Context -Helen Fay Nissenbaum, Chps. 4 & 5
•     "The Assault" from Privacy: A Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks
•     "A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace" - John Perry Barlow

        https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html

Week 5, September 20th Privacy and Information Part 1

•     Blown to Bits, Chps. 1-4

Week 6, September 27th Privacy and Information Part 2

•     Blown to Bits, Chps. 5-8, Conclusion

Week 7, October 4th The Fight for Control of the Network

•     Anarchist in the Library, Siva Vaidhyanathan

Week 8, October 11th Controlling the Protocols Legally and Technically

•     Code 2.0 -Lawrence Lessig, Chps. 1,2,10,11,12

        available via Creative Commons license at http://codev2.cc/

•     DMCA-entry on Wikipedia

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA

•     "DMCA Unitended Consequences: Ten Years Under the DMCA"

        http://www.eff.org/files/DMCAUnintended10.pdf

Week 9, October 18th Government vs. Access

•     Access Controlled, Part 1 and Selections from Part 2

Week 10, October 25th Cyberwar?

•     Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It-Richard Clarke, Intro Chps 1 & 8
•     "The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it." -Talk by  Jonathan Zittrain

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7UlYTFKFqY

•     "Has the Cyberwar Threat Been Exaggerated?" NPR Intelligence Squared Podcast

        Two Parts available via iTunes: http://bit.ly/aJZEVW http://bit.ly/bzJsiL

Week 11, November 1st Social Networks and Privacy

•     "Social Networks: Public, Private, or What?" - danah boyd

        http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2007/edition-13/social-network-sites-public-private-or-what/

•     "Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity" - danah boyd

        http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/2010/SXSW2010.html

•     "Evolution of Privacy on Facebook"

        http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

•     "Facebook Friend Turns Into Big Brother"

        http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_0ff40f7a-d4d1-11de-afb3-001cc4c002e0.html

•     "China's Cyberposse"

        http://nyti.ms/cWM7vS

Week 12, November 8th Corporations and Your Information

•     "Personal Data in the Marketplace" in Privacy in Peril James Rule
•     "What They Know" -Wall Street Journal

        http://online.wsj.com/public/page/what-they-know-digital-privacy.html

•     "Beyond Google and Evil" - Chris Jay Hoofnagle

        http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2326/2156 

Week 13, November 15th Cameras Everywhere

•     Urban Wolf

        http://www.urbanwolf.com/

•     Every Step You Take by Nino Leitner (film available on Amazon)
•     "Some Thoughts on Google Street View in the US and UK"

        http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/2009/03/some_thoughts_on_google_street.php

Week 14, November 22nd Location Aware Surveillance 

•     "Human Mobility" from Bursts Albert-Laszlo Barbasi
•     "Location Make Mobile Mobile" -Ted Morgan

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIJyWi9YsYU&feature=player_embedded

•     "Prison Without Walls" from Atlantic Monthly

        http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/1969/12/prison-without-walls/8195/

•     "Geofencing" -Venture Beat

        http://venturebeat.com/2010/04/23/geofencing-pushes-services-to-phones/

•     "Check-Ins, Geo-Fences, and the Future of Privacy" -Erick Schonfeld

        http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/27/geo-fences-privacy/

Week 15, November 29th Control Through Prediction

•     "Google predicts spread of flu using huge data search"

        http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/13/google-internet

•     "Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring"

        http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/

•     "Crime Prediction Software is Here"

        http://gizmodo.com/5517231/crime-prediction-software-is-here-and-its-a-very-bad-idea 

Week 16, December 6th

    Final Presentations