Thursday, April 22 Wrapping Up “I feel…an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.” --Thomas Jefferson, 1808 This semester we've explored a wide range of topics related to information. We started off talking about information literacy; how information is organized; and the relationship between data, information, and knowledge. Within the context intellectual property and digital rights management, we've examined copyright law, intellectual freedom and censorship, research and development, and privacy. In the introduction to this course, I wrote that DRM is an ideal theme for this course because it is an example of a technology which is forcing us to think about and reconsider what information is, who owns it, and how (and why) we use it. Let's wrap-up the semester with this week's Discussion Forum. And don't forget your blog post for this week. Blogs and reflective essay are due May 4th. |
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