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Day Topics Readings (password req.) Assignments Jan 17 Intro to the prof. & the course None   P R O G R E S S Jan 19 medicine Monaghan, Holthaus, Reuters   Jan 24 robotics Chandler, Davidson, Locke  visit this cool site Jan 26 nanotech Barbara, Weiss   Jan 31 biotech Elias, Keilman, Becker, Glofish BASIC WEB PAGE P L A C E Feb 2 meaning of place Goldberger, Gumbel, Fiske   Feb 7 national identity Dalrymple, Borat, Aldinger   Feb 9 media & national identity Bunnell   Feb 14 urban identity Beriatos & Gaspodini  for fun visit this link and see the "zip decoder" Feb 15 Game Court 2006 EGADS first informational meeting Feb 16 technology hubs Saxenian   Feb 21 more technology hubs Streitfeld   Feb 23 world cities Knox   Feb 28 eastern world cities Ng & Hills YOUR PLACES P O W E R Mar 2 crimes Leth, Gelineau, Cellphone bandit, Thorne   Mar 7 cybercrimes Boudreau, Sangha, Nigerian Scams   Mar 9 MID-TERM EXAM (review sheets: doc, pdf) Mar 10 Deadline to sign up for EGADS  Mar 21 vices Holden, Baertlein, Gentile, Elber   Mar 23 more vices Babbington, Wilson   Mar 28 regulation OLD CHAT TRANSCRIPT Schrage (required), Weiner (optional) graphics: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5   Mar 30 activism & civil society Blood, Winer, James, Blogs   Apr 4 ethnic identity Adams & Ghose website new research powerpoint ABOVE & BELOW or EGADS F L O W S Apr 6 intellectual property Foster, Reuters 2   Apr 11 e-commerce Aoyama e-commerce   Apr 13 dot-com boom & bust Zook (ch. 1-3) what's up with .nu?   Apr 18 dot-com boom & bust Zook (ch. 8-9)   Apr 20 diffusion LaFraniere, Gorman, Blackwell Receptivity to Information Technology process behind formation of technology hubs scale free networks   Apr 25 outsourcing Francis, Hawkins, Streitfeld, Rai, Einhorn   Apr 27 telecommuting Brandon, Verespej, Mokhtarian & Meenak   May 2 more telecommuting Mokhtarian   May 4 Review FINAL EXAM REVIEW: doc, pdf INFO ECONOMY May 11 FINAL EXAM