RTF/COM 309
"Communication Technology and Society"
Course Schedule

Week of August 28 - Introduction to the Course · Straubhaar & LaRose Ch 1.
Week of Sept. 2 - Introduction Continued- Concepts · Straubhaar & LaRose Ch 2; Carey & Quirk (1989) [Monday- Labor Day]
Week of Sept. 9 - History of Communication 1 (Oral & Printing Revolution) · Huizinga (1924) ; Eisenstein (1983)
Week of Sept. 16 - History of Communications 2 (Industrial Revolution) · Carey (1989); Straubhaar & LaRose Ch 7 (Print History and Print Industry) · [WU gone Fri. Sept 20]
Week of Sept. 23 - Audio and Visual · Straubhaar & LaRose Ch. 8-9 · Short Answer Test- Friday
Week of Sept. 30 - Regulation & Economics · Straubhaar & LaRose Ch. 4-5
Week of Oct. 7 - Multi-Channel & Telephony · Straubhaar & LaRose Ch 10-11
Week of Oct 14 - Computer & Info Services Industry · Straubhaar & LaRose Ch 12-13; [Straubhaar & LaRose Ch 3 is review] · [Brief Proposal Due- Monday]
Week of Oct 21 - Virtual Communities and CyberArts · Bey (1990); Rheingold (1993); Jacobson (1992)
Week of Oct 28 - Impact on Business and Management · Straubhaar & LaRose Ch 14; Robins & Webster (1988) · Short Answer Test- Friday · [Spring Registration Begins]
Week of Nov 4 - Impact on Privacy, Security, and Personal Rights · Novek (1990); Uncapher (1991); OTA Ch 10.
Week of Nov 11 - Education and Access- Who pays? · Schiller & Schiller (1988); Browning (1994); Odasz (1990) · [Optional, but useful Straubhaar & LaRose Ch 15-16]
Week of Nov 18 - Impact on the Home and Self · Meyrowitz (1986); Gergen (1991) · [WU gone Fri. Nov 22- San Francisco]
Week of Nov 25 Globalization and Synergy · Appadurai (1990); Straubhaar & LaRose Ch. 6 · [large paper due on Monday- so you get the week-end] · [Thanksgiving]
Week of Dec 2-6 Impact on Politics/Review · Uncapher (1995); Abramson (1988)
Final Tuesday, December 17; 9-12