proposed course syllabus
3rd year sociology & anthropology
© anne galloway 2003
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course themes

theoretical topography

what is information? how does technology impact our everyday lives? what and where is cyberspace? how do new media change the ways we communicate? what are the political, economic and ethical implications of new technologies? how can information technologies empower people? what are the social and cultural risks of the information age?

Mini-Lecture Bibliography:

Lash, Scott. 2001. Critique of Information. London: Sage.

Lovink, Geert. 2002. Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Manovich, Lev. 2002. The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Shields, Rob. 2002. The Virtual. London: Routledge.

Urry, John. 2000. Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century. London: Routledge.

+ additional sources

Required Readings for Students:

Scott Bukatman, Terminal Resistance/Cyborg Acceptance
William Gibson, Neuromancer
Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto
Paul Virilio, The Aesthetics of Disappearance

Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
*Scott Lash, Technological Forms of Life
*Rob Shields, Risk Culture, Trust and the Virtual
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

All readings are in the required text, Cyber_Reader, unless marked by an asterix (*)