Lehekülje Political and social aspects of digital interactive media lähteteksti vaatamine

'''NB! This is only a development "sandbox"''' - the real course will be located at the [http://www.kakupesa.net/akadeemia/ Owl Academy].


Main idea - to introduce various political and social issues in the field of new media, to promote awareness of and to discuss the diverse circle of related problems.

=== The Course: ===

* 16 weeks (one semester/term) - one 1.5-hour session (lecture or lab) weekly plus independent work.
* 3.0 Estonian academic credits, 4.0 ECTS credits


=== Lectures/topics: ===

# [[Towards the information society]]
# [[The networked world]]
# [[Censors vs Cyberspace]]
# [[The Big Brother on Menwith Hill]] (privacy and eavesdropping)
# [[The Digital Divide]]
# [[The Ubiquitous Computing and network society]]
# [[The Hacker Ethic in a Networked World]]
# [[The Empowerment: Different People, Digital World]]
# [[From Hacktivism to Cyberwar]]
# [[e-Democracy, e-Elections and e-Government]] (social movements, participatory democracy and the Net)
# [[Global networks in global politics]]
# [[Social software, social engineering]] (not so much security but social aspects of manipulation)
# [[Gender issues off- and online]] (Susanna)
# [[New Media and culture]] (seminar?; Susanna)
# [[Play of life in the theatre of networks]] (Susanna). 
# [[Narration, storytelling, non-linear media]] (Susanna?)
...

=== Assessment: ===


* paper + slides + oral presentation
* assignments
* link portfolio (Technorati or similar)
* blog

=== Readings: ===

* Barlow, J. P. (1996) [http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace]  
* George, J.F. (2003) Computers in Society: Privacy, Ethics and the Internet. Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey
* Himanen, P. (2004) [http://www.eduskunta.fi/efakta/vk/tuv/challenges_of_the_globalinformationsociety.pdf Challenges of the Global Information Society].  report for the Committee for the Future in Parliament of Finland.   
* Himanen, P. (2001) Hacker Ethic. Random House
* Himanen, P. (2002) Häkkerieetika ja informatsiooniajastu vaim. Kunst, Tallinn (Estonian translation of ''Hacker Ethic'')
* Lessig, L. (2004). [http://www.free-culture.org/freecontent/ Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity]. The Penguin Press. 
* Martin, B. (1998) [http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98il/ Information Liberation: Challenging the Corruptions of Information Power]. Freedom Press, London. 
* Smith, M.A., Kollock, P., eds (1999). Communities in Cyberspace.  Routledge
* Stallman, R. (2002). Free Software, Free Society. Ed. Joshua Gay. GNU Press
* Wynants, M., Cornelis, J., eds (2005) [http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be/publications/Howopenisthefuture/howopenfuture_CROSSTALKSBOOK1.pdf How Open is the Future? Economic, Social and Cultural Scenarios inspired by Free & Open-Source Sofware]. CrossTalks, VUB Brussels University Press 2005. 

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