1. Week 2 1 S514: Information Technology & Society

2. Questionnaire from Last Week Movies that illustrates computerization of society The Social Network1 Minority Report3 Tron1 Gattaca1 Wall-E1 The Gods Must Be Crazy 1 None1 Elysium1 SLIS S514 2

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8. Announcement – cont. SLIS S514 8 Assignment #1 (Analytical review of journal/magazine) More examples of journals/magazines Information Technology & People New Media & Society Library + Information Update Library Hi Tech Computers in Libraries Magazine

9. Announcement- cont. SLIS S514 9 Assignment #1 (Analytical review of journal/magazine) Think about this way: You got a dream job, and your boss ask you to endorse a journal/magazine to subscribe for the department to learn more about “social aspects of IT” Suggestions for examining journals/magazines: Genres (Kling, 1994) Topics covered Contributors/Audiences Relevancy Discourse

10. Announcement- cont. SLIS S514 10 Assignment #1 (Analytical review of journal/magazine) Please post the chosen journal/magazine to Oncourse before the class on Week 3 (September 10)Oncourse Proposal for the final project (doctoral students) Submit a proposal by Week 4 (September 17)

11. Genre of Discourse about Computerization (Kling, 1994, p. 160) Utopian GenresEmpirically anchored genres Technologic al Utopianism Anti- utopianism Social Realism Social Theory Analytical Reduction SLIS S514 11 + Hybrid discourses

12. Discourses about IT & Social Change SLIS S514 12 How would you characterize the primary genres of each of the readings assigned for this week? What are some of the pitfalls of technological utopian genres? Of anti-utopian genres?

13. Discourses about IT & Social Change SLIS S514 13 What might be some of the practical consequences of reading primarily technological utopian or technological utopian discourses? What advantages might these discourses have? Under what circumstances? What are some alternative genres to technological-utopian and anti-utopian genres?

14. What is Web 2.0? SLIS S514 14 Get 3 index cards Complete the following a statement in each card: Web 2.0 is …. Prioritize cards in order of your perceived importance

15. What is Web 2.0? SLIS S514 15 Goal: Improve your hands to better represent your own thinking by exchanging cards with those on the table. You must have a total of 3 cards by exchanging cards with each other. Try to see as many cards as you can

16. What is Web 2.0? SLIS S514 16 Form coalitions. A group needs to agree on a total of 3 cards Each coalition designs a “T-shirt” based upon the 3 chosen cards, which communicates the group’s position Copyright with everyone’s name Share the T-shirt with others Each coalition selects a representative to read the 3 cards and to present the T-shirt