TWC494/598: Infoglut Deal With It
Multimedia Writing and Technical Communication
Spring 2005

Reading List

 

Albrecht, Karl (2001) "The true information survival skills" Training & Development 55(2):24-30. Available in Blackboard.

Alozie, Nicholas O. (1996) "Scholarly writers and the time capsule" Social Science Quarterly 77(1):218-224. Available in Blackboard.

American Medical News (2005) "Ban genetic discrimination" Available: http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/03/21/edsa0321.htm

Bates, Marcia J. (July 2002) "After the dot-bomb: Getting web information retrieval right this time" First Monday 7(7) Available: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_7/bates/index.html.

Boucher, Rick (May 10, 2002) "Protecting the information commons: Asserting the public interest in copyright law and digital infrastructure" Tech Law Journal Available: http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong107/copyright/20020510.asp.

Chandler, Jr., Alfred D. (2000) "The information age in historical perspective" In: A Nation Transformed by Information NY:Oxford University Press, pg.3-37. Available in Blackboard.

Eco, Umberto (1996) "From Internet to Gutenberg" Available: http://hf.ntnu.no/anv/Finnbo/tekster/Eco/Internet.htm.

Ellis, Tucker (2002) Media ownership. 20/20 Hindsight. Columbia Journalism Review. Available: http://archives.cjr.org/year/02/4/crispinmiller.asp.

Field, Kelly (2005) Proposed Student-Data System Can Be Made Secure, Report Says. Chronicle of Higher Education Available: http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i30/30a00101.htm

Free Software Foundation (nd) The free software definition. Available: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.

Gidjunis, Joseph (2004) Proposed Change in How Federal Government Collects Student Data Raises Privacy Concerns. Chronicle of Higher Education Available: http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i14/14a02201.htm

Harper, Georgia K. (2000) "Copyright endurance and change" EDUCAUSE Review 35(6):20-26 Available: http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm00/articles006/erm0061.pdf.

Hasulo, Susanne (Aug. 2002) "Defining information literacy" Information Highways Available in Blackboard.

Jonscher, Charles (1999) "The ancient mystery of human knowledge" In: Wired Life. Who Are We in the Digital Age? NY:Bantam Press, pgs. 35-62. Available in Blackboard.

Lessig, Lawrence (2002)"Free" In: The Future of Ideas NY:Vintage Books, pg. 3-16. Available in Blackboard

O'Donnell, James J. (2000) "From the codex page to the homepage" In: Avatars of the Word Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pg. 50-70. Available in Blackboard.

Poe, Marshall (2001) "Print monograph dead; invent new publishing model" Journal of Electronic Publishing 7(2) Available: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/sidepoe.html.

Shapiro, Jeremy J. and Hughes, Shelley K. (March/April 1996) "Information literacy as a liberal art" Educom Review 31(2) Available: http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/31231.html.

Shenk, David (1997) The Black Shakes. In: Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut NY: HarperEdge., p. 36-50. Available in Blackboard.

Solomon, David J. (2002) "Talking past each other: Making sense of the debate over electronic publication. First Monday 7(8) Available: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_8/solomon/index.html

Suber, Peter (2004) Open access overview. Available: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm.

University of Maryland (2002) Copyright primer. Available: http://www-apps.umuc.edu/primer/enter.php.

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