ICS 131 Social Analysis of Computerization

 

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This page lists articles for you to read in preparation for Class in the weeks indicated.

 

Day 1 – Class overview

 

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Week 1 – Basis for Class

 

Wednesday – Do short assignments on both

1. Simon, H., Sciences of the Artificial, 2nd Edition, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1986, Chapter 6, pp. 160-191.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

2. Mehren, E. Professor Admits Not Crediting Author, Los Angeles Times, September 29, 2004.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

Friday – No readings, no assignments

No class readings – library lecture – FYI see Links & Resources.

 

Week 2 – Voting – Problems Arise

 

Wednesday – Do short assignments on both

1. Cranor, L.F., Voting after Florida: no easy answers, Ubiquity, Volume 1 Issue 47, February 2001.     

Note: this article should be generally accessible here.

 

2. Bederson, B., Lee, B., Sherman, R., Herrnson, P., Niemi, R., Usability of large scale public systems: Electronic voting system usability issues, Proceedings of the conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2003—Fort Lauderdale, FL), April 2003, pp. 145-152.

Note: you may access this article from your UCI account and clicking here and selecting the PDF link (if using VPN – set to “Full”).

 

Friday – Do short assignments on any 3 out of these 6

1. Associated Press, Ballot Has Notable Absentees, Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2004.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

2. Bolstad, E., Fineout, G., Botched Forms Exclude Many Voters, The Miami Herald, October 5, 2004.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

3. Kissel, T., Felon Follies: A Problem that Marred the 2000 Ballot is Back, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, October 31, 2002.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

4. Bolstad, E., Broward Recheck Finds About 200 Untallied Votes, The Miami Herald, September 15, 2002.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

5. La Corte, R., Miami-Dade Elections Officials Find Lost 2002 Voting Data, The Associated Press State & Local Wire.

Note: you may access this article from your UCI (or VPN “full”) and clicking here; alternatively enter the LexisNexis News Articles and type in keywords “Janet Reno Election”.

 

6. Paddock, R., In Australia, Ranking Process Is Key in a Tight Race, Los Angeles Times, October 7, 2004.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

 

Week 3 – Voting 2 – Internet Voting and More Problems

 

Wednesday – Do short assignments on 1 and 2.

1. Jefferson, D., Rubin, A., Simons, B., Wagner, D. The problems and potentials of voting systems: Analyzing internet voting security, Communications of the ACM, Volume 47, Issue 10, October 2004, pp. 59-64.

Note: you may access this article from your UCI account and clicking here and selecting the PDF link.

 

2. Schulte, B., Security Review Finds 328 Flaws in AccuVote, The Washington Post, September 25, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

3. Knapp, G., Voter Registrations Possibly Trashed, http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe, October 13, 2004.

 

Friday – Do short assignments on reading 1 and 2.

1. BBC News, Q&A: The US Electoral College, Story from BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/americas/3736580.stm, October 12, 2004.

 

2. United States Department of Justice, Introduction To Federal Voting Rights Laws, http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro_b.htm.

 

3. United States Constitution, Various Amendments relating to Voting Rights

(see also http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html for a good online copy of the US Constitution.)

 

a. Amendment 12 (1804) - http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment12/

b. Amendment 15 (1870) - http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment15/

c. Amendment 19 (1920) - http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment19/

d. Amendment 23 (1961) - http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment23/

e. Amendment 24 (1964) - http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment24/

f. Amendment 26 (1971) - http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment26/

 

4. For the adventurous reader (not required for the course)

a. http://archive.aclu.org/issues/racial/racevote.html

b. http://www.hrw.org/press98/oct/vote1022.htm

c. Zinn, H., A People's History of the United Sates, Harper Perennial, 1995.

 

Week 4 – Privacy

 

Wednesday – Do not turn in short assignments for these, but do familiarize yourself with the material.

 

1. AP, JetBlue Gives Away Data on Passengers, The Los Angeles Times, September 20, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

2. Rosenzweig, D. JetBlue Is Sued Over Release of Data on Its Passengers to U.S.Contractor, The Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

3. aubreyturner.org, Supermarket Chain To Share Data With HMO’s, http://www.aubreyturner.org/archives/000237.html, February 25, 2003, visited October 20, 2004.

 

4. CASPIAN – Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, http://www.nocards.org/, visited October 20, 2004.

 

5. Spychips: RFID Privacy Website, http://www.spychips.com/, visited October 20, 2004.

 

 

Friday – Do short assignments for 1 and 2.

 

1. Palen, L., Dourish, P. Unpacking “Privacy” for a Networked World, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 03—Fort Lauderdale, FL), April 2003, pp. 129-136.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

2. Thuraisingham, B. Data mining, national security, privacy and civil liberties, ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter,  4(2), December 2002.

Note: you may access this article from your UCI account and clicking here and selecting the PDF link.

 

3. Department of Justice, The Privacy Act of 1974, see http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/04_7_1.html.

 

Week 5 – Privacy and the Patriot Act, Etc.

 

Wednesday – Do short assignments for 4 and 5. Also, for the following Wednesday, each person should bring to class one multiple choice question (and answer) that they would like to see on the midterm.

 

1. Department of Justice, USA Patriot Act Overview, from http://www.lifeandliberty.gov/.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

2. ACLU, USA Patriot Act, fact sheet, available at http://www.aclu.org/Files/OpenFile.cfm?id=11812.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

3. ACLU, Fact Sheet on PATRIOT Act II, available at http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=12234&c=206.

Note: this fact sheet is made available for your individual use here.

 

4. Schmitt, R., Provision of Patriot Act Is Ruled Unconstitutional, Los Angeles Times, September 30, 2004.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

5. Mikulan, S., The Wages of Fear, LA Weekly, August 8-14, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

Friday – Do short assignments for 1 only. (Of course read through the other readings).

1. Parenti, C. The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America, Basic Books, New York, 2003, Chapter 1, pp. 1-12.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

Note: this article is a mediocre scan and downloads and prints slow.

 

2. Garrison, J., Cameras to Keep Watch in Hollywood, Los Angeles Times, October 28, 2004.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

3. Chartand, S., A technique to help combat the online piracy of music, The New York Times, May 17, 2004.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

4. Wardell, J., British court orders Internet companies to identify 28 alleged music pirates, Associated Press, October 15, 2004.

Note: Note: you may access this article from your UCI account and clicking here.

 

5. Pugmire, L., Ontario Officers File Suit Over Secret Locker-Room Taping, Los Angeles Times, Inland Empire Edition, October 29, 2004.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

Week 6  – Review and Midterm

 

Wednesday – Review – Each person should bring one multiple choice question (and answer) to class.

 

Friday – Midterm – Multiple Choice

 

TBD but something like …

 

Week 7  – Computing in the World – Visions of the “Future”

 

Friday – Do short assignments for 1 and 2 only.

1. McLuhan, M., Fiore, Q., The Medium is the Massage, Hardwired, pp. 2-11.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

Note: this article is a mediocre scan and downloads and prints slow.

 

2. Bush, V., As We May Think, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.

See http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush.shtml.

 

3. Engelbart, D., English, W., A research center for augmenting human intellect, 1968.

 

4.  http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/index.html

 

5. Knowledge Navigator Video.

 

Week  8a Wednesday – Computing in the World – Intellectual Property

 

Do short assignments for 1 and 2 only.

1. Kapor, M., High Tech Hypocrisy About Government, http://www.kapor.com/homepages/mkapor/newyorktimes.980526.html.

 

2. Michaelson, J., There's no such thing as a free (software) lunch, Queue, Volume 2 ,  Issue 3  (May 2004).

Note: Note: you may access this article from your UCI account and clicking here (html or pdf are equivalent).

 

3. http://creativecommons.org/

 

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

 

 

Week 8b Friday – Computing in the World – Liability and Ethics

 

Do a short assignment for 1 only (Due Wednesday December 1)

1. Turner, C.S., Richardson, D.J., Software and Strict Products Liability: Technical Challenges to Legal Notions of Responsibility, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Law and Technology, October 31, 2000, San Francisco, CA.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

2. IEEE-CS and ACM, Code of Ethics, http://www.computer.org/tab/seprof/code.htm

 

3. 2. Brookings Institute, Code of Ethics,

http://www.brook.edu/its/cei/overview/Ten_Commanments_of_Computer_Ethics.htm.

 

 

Week 9 Wednesday – Computing in the World – Instant Messaging and Blogging

 

Do a short assignment for 1 only (Due Wednesday December 1)

1. Grinter, R., Palen. L. Instant Messaging in Teen Life, Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '02—New Orleans, LA), pp. 21-30.

Note: This article is available here.

 

2. “Billmon”, Blogging Sells, and Sells Out, Los Angeles Times, September 26, 2004.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

For the adventurous reader (not required for the course)

3. The View from the Ground, Los Angeles Times, September 5, 2004, pp. M1 and M6.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.