Readings

Topic
Lecture
Readings
Overview
August 28
August 30
Magnificent Wastes of Time...?
You There, at the Computer: Pay Attention
Kling's Car-Computer Analogy
Ethics and Morality Theories
September 6
September 11
September 13
excerpt from Quinn, Ethics for the Information Age
excerpt from Spinello, Cyberethics
How Computers Work
September 18
September 20
Computers, Inside and Out (excerpts)
Software Reliability
September 25
Why Software Fails
Who Killed the FBI Virtual Case File?

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Enabling Technology
Gary Bishop
Digital Diversity, High tech tools shift from special to universal
Genetics and Privacy
Gattaca
Genetics and Privacy presentation

eGovernment
October 9
October 16
October 18
Deliberative Democracy
When will the right recognize the cost of conceding Web 2.0?
Digital Divide
Brown and Bradshaw
Digital divide still separates children
Britain's digital tribes revealed
e-voting
October 23
Voting on the Internet presentation
Electronic Voting Systems:  the Good, the Bad, and the Stupid
Small Vote Manipulations Can Swing Elections
Hacking Diebold Voting Machines
* Internet Voting
e-news/info
October 23
Digital Manipulation presentation
Blogs and Wikis presentation
Self-Censorship in China presentation
The Gathering Storm Over Speech
Growing Wikipedia Refines Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy
Can German engineering fix Wikipedia?
Blogs Take Lead in Reporting Polling Problems, With Supporting Evidence on YouTube
Facebook Flap
* Ethics of Digital Image Manipulation
* Kate doesn’t like Photoshop – Digital Ethics
* Self-Censorship in China handout
Privacy
October 25 video
Face recognition presentation
Government Access to Private DBs presentation
Public Information on the Web presentation
RFID in Humans presentation
National ID Cards presentation
NSA Surveillance presentation
Embedded Cookies/Research Programs presentation
The Boarding Pass Brouhaha
Spinello, Cyberethics (excerpts)
Goodbye to Privacy (No Place to Hide review)
Government Increasingly Turning to Data Mining
Data retention endorsed by International Association of Chiefs of Police
IBM Buys Identity Company to Nail Down Who's Who
Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror
Google actively aiding intelligence agencies?
Confidential data really is at risk
The Future of Privacy
A Chronology of Data Breaches (scan)
* Face It: Privacy is Endangered
* What's up with government data mining?
* Do Sexual Predators Have the Right to Privacy?
* FDA Clears RFID chip for humans
* RFID Nineteen Eighty-Four (CASPIAN anti-RFID site)
* National ID Cards and REAL ID Act
* National ID Cards
* The NSA's Warrantless Domestic Surveillance
* NSA's data mining explained
* Introduction to How Internet Cookies Work
Social Issues
October 30
"December 6"
Create an Artificial Intelligence presentation
Gender and Technology presentation
Hacker Ethics presentation
Net Neutrality presentation
Call Screening presentation
Sherry Turkle Interview
Your Second Life is Ready
Imagining the City: The Cultural Dimensions of Urban Computing
Emails 'pose threat to IQ'
Computing 2016: What Won't Be Possible?
Last Child in the Woods (excerpt)
* Hot Topics: Artificial Intelligence
* Science and the Gender Gap
* Excerpt: 'The Female Brain'
* What is Artifical Intelligence?
* Hacker Ethics handout
* The Net Neutrality Debate
* A Sentinel to Screen Phone Calls
Games
Whitton and Ward

Games:
A World of Warcraft World
Violence in games stimulates brain for aggression
Serious Games:

Social Impact Games (catalog of serious games - scan)
Movement aims to get serious about games
Control a car with your thoughts -- it's therapeutic
Games get serious
Game Addictions:
Are multiplayer online games more compelling, more addictive?
Confessions from an online world
Man Dies of Heart Failure Playing Video Games
China looks at ways to stop Internet addiction
Internet suicides rise in Japan; Viet Nam limits game time
Parents Sue Online Game Seller for Son's Suicide
Digital Rights Management
Chin
Jones
Von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation
  
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
   Chapter 8: Adapting Policy to User Innovation
How DRM Works
Still sticking it to the consumer

Computers in the Workplace
VIrtual Office presentation
Workplace Monitoring presentation
Technology Addiction presentation
Why employers are cracking down on email
Driven to distraction by technology
Internet addiction: Stanford study seeks to define whether it's a problem
* Virtual Office handout
* Virtual office is what you make it
* How Virtual Offices Work
* An Overview of e-mail and Internet Monitoring in the Workplace
* Surveillance in the Workplace: an overview of issues of privacy, monitoring, and ethics
* Technology Addiction handout
* Are Employers Liable for Technology Addiction?
Computers and Medicine
Medical Database presentation
* Federal Health Architecture
* Security fears over medical database

* denotes supplement to a presentation