INLS777-001 Fall 2022

Perspectives on information, technology and people

 Final Product

TASK - you have a choice, pick one of three options

25% of the grade for this class will come from one of three ways to reflect on the experience of this class in this fall semester.

Review your options below and then register your choice in a Sakai forum posting.

  • Read a book throughout the semester
    as an individual effort
  • Select a book from the list below.
  • Plan to give a five minute presentation about the book you read and how it applied to this class during the final exam period on Saturday, 03 December 2021 at 0800-1100. Show in it your understanding of some or all of these topics we discussed in class, by citing the discussion or reading for a particular class session, and citing examples of the topic from your book.
  • Depending on how many select this option, we may do some schedule modifications.
  • Read a book throughout the semester
    as a group
  • Select a book from the list below.
  • Plan to give a five minute presentation about the book you read and how it applied to this class during the final exam period on Saturday, 03 December 2022 at 0800-1100. Show in it your understanding of some or all of these topics we discussed in class, by citing the discussion or reading for a particular class session, and citing examples of the topic from your book.
  • Depending on how many select this option, we may do some schedule modifications.
  • Do a redesign of this course
    as an individual effort
  • Create a new syllabus for INLS777
  • In a previous semester and in a different class, I asked the students to reflect on the class by suggesting a new way to approach the topic. Every one of the students took on the topic with thoughtfulness and thoroughness. For the most part, the plan suggested by Kate Moran and Marla Sullivan continues to inspire this semester's version of the class.
  • If you choose this option, you will follow in their footsteps.

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  • Options for the Individual Book Talk
  • Select a book from the list below.
  • Plan to give a five minute presentation about the book you read and how it applied to this class during the final exam period on Saturday, 03 December 2022 at 0800-1100. Show in it your understanding of some or all of these topics we discussed in class, by citing the discussion or reading for a particular class session, and citing examples of the topic from your book.
  • Depending on how many select this option, we may do some schedule modifications.
  • Options for the Group Book Talk
  • Select a book from the list below.
  • Plan to give a five minute presentation about the book you read and how it applied to this class during the final exam period on Saturday, 03 December 2022 at 0800-1100. Show in it your understanding of some or all of these topics we discussed in class, by citing the discussion or reading for a particular class session, and citing examples of the topic from your book.
  • Depending on how many select this option, we may do some schedule modifications.

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  • If none of these options appeal to you ...
  • Set up an appointment for a discussion about possible alternatives.

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CONDITION

  • Individual Book Talk (titles linked to reviews)
Author Title
Matthew Battles Library, An Unquiet History
Warren Berger CAD Monkeys, Dinosaur Babies, and T-Shaped People
Kurt Beyer Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
Ananyo Bhattacharya The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
Matthew Brennan Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance
George Dyson Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
Dave Eggers The Every
Orlando Figes The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination
Jon Gertner The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
James Gleick The Information, A History, A Theory, A Flood
Daniel Greene The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope
Joshua Hammer The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
Alexandra Horowitz On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
Walter Isaacson The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Kazuo Ishiguro Klara and the Sun
Annie Jacobsen The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Paul Kildea Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music
Christopher C. King Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music
Alec MacGillis Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
Gretchen McCulloch Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Siddhartha Mukherjee The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Franz Nicolay The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar
Don Norman The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman Living with Complexity
Susan Orlean The Library Book
Kathy Peiss Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe
Thomas Powers Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb
Hans Rosling Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Kim Michele Richardson The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Leonard Shlain Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
Graeme Simsion and Graham C. Witt Data Modeling Essentials, Third Edition
Robin Sloan Sourdough or, Lois and her adventures in the underground market
Dava Sobel The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
Bruce Sterling Shaping Things
Brad Stone Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
Jer Thorp Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future
Kurt Vonnegut Player Piano
Andrea Wulf The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Shoshana Zuboff The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power

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STANDARD

The presentations will be given during the final exam time.

If you choose the book reading option, you will each (each individual and each group) have about five minutes to present your talk, accompanied by some sort of visual support.

If you choose the course redesign option, you will turn it in through Sakai assignments.

We will use a simple P/F scale for grading.

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