Note: Answers to weekly questions are, barring an annoucement to the contrary,
due at midnight Tuesday. Reponses to other students' answers are due
midnight Thursday. 
 
 

SESSION	TOPIC	OUTSIDE PARTICIPANT(S)	OTHER
Class begins  January 13	The Politics (and Law) of Technology
Session 2 January 20	What's New about New Media?
Session 3 January 27	Where is Cyberspace? Jurisdiction and the Metaphysics of the Net
Session 4 February 3	Governance 1: Forms of Regulation		Discussion of paper requirement
Session 5 February 10	Governance 2: The Case of the Domain Name System
Session 6 February 17	Market Power, Competition, and Antitrust		Paper Abstract Due
Session 7 February 24	Knowledge, Truth, and Reputation	David Shenk
Session 8 March 3	Free Speech 1: Speech in a Digital World
Session 9 March 10	Free Speech 2: Filtering, Rating, and Blocking Technologies
Spring Break March 17	No Class
Session 10 March 24	Copyright and the Future of Fair Use
Session 11 March 31	Privacy: Whose Rights? Whose Responsibility?
Session 12 April 7	Representative Democracy, Hyperdemocracy, Direct Democracy
Session 13 April 14	New Opportunities and Challenges for Community		Papers Due
Session 14 April 21	Personalization, Globalization, and Common Identity
Exams	No class