[Air-L] Textbook on the information society theory

Wed Sep 11 10:16:28 PDT 2013

Hi Joo-Seong and friends interested in our upcoming "Information Technology
and the Network Society" course,

As MIT OCW-centric World University and School's first online, free course,
I'm planning to teach "Information Technology and the Network Society"
(newly named) - see
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/09/information-technology-and-network.html
-
on Thursdays from 5pm - 7pm Pacific Time (where I live in the SF Bay Area)
which is 8pm - 10pm time Eastern Time, and which is 7am-9am on Friday
mornings, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where Jessika (from the University of
Toronto) is doing fieldwork for the next year. Please let me know how these
times work for you, if you're thinking of taking the class We'll begin
Thursday, September 19th at 5pm (1700) PT and end the course on Thursday
December 12th.

Description of the Course:

What is information technology, broadly conceived? How did it develop? Who
did it? What has been the process of diffusion into the economy and
society? How and why did the Network Society take shape? What of the
implications of networks in the Information Age? In this course, we’ll
analyze the interaction between society and contemporary information
technologies, in a multicultural and comparative perspective. In doing so,
we’ll examine what data and evidence are in the social sciences, how it is
used, and how it is interpreted.

We'll meet on Harvard's virtual island in Second Life -
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Berkman/146/229/25 - for the first
hour, and in a Google + Hangout for the second hour, accessible here -
https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts.

We'll use the new book by Rainie and Wellman "Networked: The New Social
Operating System" (MIT 2012 - http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/networked) as
the main text (which is data-focused and which I also haven't used when
teaching this course in the past), also with readings from Castells' "Rise
of the Networked Society" trilogy (rev. eds.) +, with some great,
generative talks examining the information age (Professor Manuel
Castells-informed), engaging the Conference Method of Teaching and Learning
online -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning
.

While I have much to say about fascinating "Information Technology and the
Network Society," the Conference Method involves talking to each other, as
a start, and Second Life accommodates up to 40 people in voice and text
chat (and is build-able, and thus stimulating imagination-wise), whereas
Google + group video Hangouts accommodate up to 10 people in video and
group text chat for free. Both are interesting for learning and teaching,
as forums, in different ways, which we'll also explore.

Here's a previous, course wiki -
http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/w/page/17175578/FrontPage.

I've decided not to explore designing the course anew in Google's
course-builder https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/ since it appears
to offer more resources than the course would benefit from.

I've can send you the syllabus (without the resources for a required
course) if you email me below.

In planning to design this course vis-a-vis how to build to a WUaS, MIT OCW
course, accreditation-worthy standard, I'm synthesizing resources from C.C.
MIT OCW courses (http://ocw.mit.edu) in a variety of ways.

Information Technology and the Network Society seeks to come into
conversation with course participants about MIT OCW-centric course building
during the semester.

This open course is for at-large participants interested in Information
Technology and the Network Society, for students and information technology
researchers, for prospective graduate students who might like to teach next
year, as well as for hypothetical graduate student instructors hired by
WUaS (WUaS is planning to hire MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
Cambridge graduate students +  these universities -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings) -
in the autumn of 2014, teaching interactively to MIT faculty in MIT OCW
video courses - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - for free
C.C. MIT OCW-centric, university degrees.

*

If you'd like to join this open conversation (and you haven't done this
already), please

Get an avatar (free) for Second Life

Get a Gmail address, and set up your G+ profile for Hangouts (all free)

Get the book "Networked" (MIT 2012) by Rainie and Wellman, and begin reading

Invite friends to participate

Let me know at worlduniversityandschool at gmail.com

Best,

Scott

...

On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:42 AM, joo-seong Hwang <jameshwang9 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi~,
>
> I will open an graduate course on "Network and Society".
> Through this course I would like to discuss about information society from
> those treaditional scholars as Baniel Bell and Fritz Matchl upto the latest
> ones who argued for information capitalism and congnitive capitalism. I
> will  also introduce those scholars who give us deeper understanding as
> Manuel Castells, Jan van Dijk, and Frank Webster.
>
> I wonder if there is some textbook which can be usesd as a reference book
> in this class. I am looking for the one that can serve us with more
> balanced guideline between critical and positive approaches.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> James
>
> *Joo Seong Hwang, Ph. D., Associate Professor
> *Graduate School of Public Policy and Information Technology
> Seoul National University of Science and Technology
> Changjo-Hall(Bd.No. 8), 232 Gongneung-ro, Nowon-gu, 139-743, Seoul, KOREA
> (Office) 82-2-970-6868, (Fax) 82-2-970-6868, (MP) 82-10-3777-4450
> jshwang at seoultech.ac.kr, *
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