Week 1: Introduction
Résumé de section
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Semaine actuelle
This week: 1. Course introduction
***No exercise session this week***
Next week: 2. UseNet, Internet, and "Democratization"
Please read all of the primary readings for next week and at least one of the secondary readings.
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By J.C.R. Licklider and Robert W. Taylor, April 1968.
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Excerpt: Chapter 8 from "Democracy and its Critics", Robert Dahl, 1989
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Assignment: chapters 1-4 and 18.
By Michael and Ronda Hauben, April 1997.
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Assignment: read at least the Introduction, Chapter 4 "Grassroots Groupminds", and Chapter 10 "Disinformocracy".
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2022 interview of Ronda Hauben and retrospective on the Netizens (1997) book.
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