Week: Week 1: Introduction | Technologies for democratic society | Moodle

Section outline

This week: 1. Course introduction
***No exercise session this week***
Next week: 2. UseNet, Internet, and "Democratization"
- Select activity Assigned reading: "The Computer as a Communication Device"
  
  Assigned reading: "The Computer as a Communication Device" File
  
  By J.C.R. Licklider and Robert W. Taylor, April 1968.
- Select activity Assigned reading: "A Theory of the Democratic Process"
  
  Assigned reading: "A Theory of the Democratic Process" File
  
  Excerpt: Chapter 8 from "Democracy and its Critics", Robert Dahl, 1989
- Select activity Optional reading: "Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet"
  
  Optional reading: "Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet" File
  
  By Michael and Ronda Hauben, April 1997.
  Reading assignment: chapters 1-4 and 18.
- Select activity Optional reading: "Democracy - Council of Europe"
  
  Optional reading: "Democracy - Council of Europe" URL
- Select activity Optional reading: "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"
  
  Optional reading: "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" URL
- Select activity Lecture recording
  
  Lecture recording URL

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