IS 376: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY

Spring 2006; TR 3:30-4:45; Engineering Building 1033

Instructors:

Professor Zixue Tai Department of Mass Communications Dunham Hall 2048 (618)650-2219 ztai@siue.edu Office Hours: M 1:30-4:00, TR 1:45-3:20, and by appointment!

Professor William W. White Department of Computer Science Engineering Building 3041 (618)650-3483 wwhite@siue.edu Office Hours: MW 8:00-12:00 and by appointment!

Syllabus:

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Course Notes & Extra Reading Material:

1. Computer Technology (White) Denning: “Great Principles of Computing”	2. Societal Benefits (Tai)
3. Data Mining & Identity Theft (White) Thuraisingham: “A Primer for Understanding and Applying Data Mining”	4. Privacy Concerns (Tai) Milne: “Consumers’ Protection of Online Privacy and Identity”
5. Data Communications (White) O’Donovan: “A School Connectivity Primer”	6. Communication Capabilities (Tai)
7. Data Encryption (White) Caloyinnides: “Encryption Wars: Early Battles” Caloyinnides: “Encryption Wars: Shifting Tactics”	8. IT Security (Tai) Hammitt: “Less Safe – The Dismantling of Public Information Systems After 9/11”
9. Computer Reliability (White) Graham: “Of Course It’s True – I Saw It On The Internet!”	10. IT Safety (Tai) Mercuri: “Trusting in Transparency”
11. Electronic Commerce (Tai) Reisch: “Potentials, Pitfalls, and Policy implications of Electronic Consumption”	12. Spam & Filters (White) Gyöngyi: “Spam: It’s Not Just For Inboxes Anymore”
13. Cyberspace Censorship (Tai) McCarthy: “The Continuing Saga of Internet Censorship: The Child Online Protection Act”	14. Intellectual Property (White) Hood: “Steal This Software”
15. Patents & Copyrights (Tai) Carlson: “Google Will Digitize…” Carlson: “Yahoo Works With Academic Libraries…”	16. Hacking & Viruses (White) Riordan: “How To Hook Worms”
17. Computer Crime (Tai)	18. Software Engineering (White) Simons: “35 Years On: To What Extent Has SWE Design Achieved Its Goals?”
19. Computers & Work (Tai)	20. Electronic Monitoring (White) Kushner: “Big Brother At Work”
21. Impact of IT (White) Carr: “IT Doesn’t Matter”	22. Digital Divide (Tai) Payton: “Rethinking The Digital Divide”
23. Prohibiting Bad IT (White) Charette: “Why Software Fails”	24. Online Citizenship (Tai)
25. Computing Profession (White) Laplante: “Professional Licensing and the Social Transformation of Software Engineers”	26. Ethical Concerns (Tai) Stahl: “Information, Ethics, and Computers: The Problem of Autonomous Moral Agents”
27. Ethical Case Studies (White)

Assignments:

Paper #1 Due: 1/31/2006

Paper #2 Due: 2/23/2006

Paper #3 Due: 3/23/2006

Paper #4 Due: 4/18/2006

Quizzes:

Quiz #1	Quiz #2	Quiz #3	Quiz #4
Quiz #5	Quiz #6	Quiz #7

Exams:

Exam #1 2/14/2006

Exam #2 3/30/2006

Final Exam 5/2/2006