Possible Course Topics
If there's a topic you're interested in, please let me know and we'll try to include it!
Introductory Topics (completed)
| Course Overview & Themes (Lec-01) (completed) | |
| How Computers Work (Lec-02) (completed) | |
| Reliability (Lec-03) (completed) | |
| Ethics (Lec-04) (completed) |
Introduction to Privacy Issues (completed)
| Readings, Videos, etc (completed) |
Consumer of Information and Information Access (In progress)
| The Digital Divide (June 4) | |
| Consumer of News and Information (June 4) | |
| Digitizing efforts (June 4) | |
| Information glut | |
| Blogs and wikis (June 5) | |
| Digital Manipulation (Team 9) |
Consumer of Goods and Services
| Online vs. bricks & mortar | |
| Customization | |
| Consumer Privacy | |
| Web Tracking, Web bugs, Adware, Cookies (June 5) | |
| RFID | |
| Data Sharing, Data Breaches | |
| Intellectual Property | |
| Owner Rights, DRM, and innovation (mostly Team 1) |
Social Issues
| Culture of Simulation | |
| Social Phenomena | |
| Online Communities (Facebook, MySpace, etc) (Team 8) | |
| The Online Generation (June 6) | |
| Games: Addiction and Serious Games (External speaker) (June 6) | |
| Create a Sentient AI? (June 7) | |
| Gender and Science | |
| Access to Medical Data (June 7) | |
| Medical technologies (June 7) | |
| Enabling Technologies | |
| Facial Recognition (Team 2) | |
| Addiction (Team 4) | |
| Hacker Ethics (Team 10) |
Workplace Issues
| E-Communications in the Workplace | |
| The Virtual Office (Team 7) | |
| Workplace E-monitoring (Team 5) |
Policital and Government Issues
| Government Access to Privately Collected Data (Team 3) | |
| USA Patriot Act, NSA Surveillance, National ID Cards, Biometrics, First Amendment issues, etc. (some Team 3, some Team 6) | |
| Tools for Citizen Empowerment | |
| Electronic Voting (June 8) | |
| Public Information Online (June 8) | |
| Internet Wiretapping (Team 6) | |
| ISP/Tech Co. Responsibility Abroad |