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Introduction

This is the course wiki for the Spring 2009 Harvard Law School seminar The Internet: Issues at the Frontiers, LAW-99045A (abbreviated name: iif). It is taught by Professors Cass Sunstein and Jonathan Zittrain and meets Mondays from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM.

Course description:

This seminar explores frontiers question involving the Internet. Anticipated issues involve innovation, copyright, new uses of the wiki form, prediction markets, democratic polarization, and collective intelligence. Students will be expected to participate actively in innovative course design, and we might attempt to involve numerous people all over the world in the course through the Internet.

Schedule

Unless otherwise indicated, dates given are for normal class meetings.

• 2008-12-01 12-1pm, LILC 302, lunch available from 11:45 am onward
• 2008-11-24 12-1pm, Hauser Hall 101, lunch available from 11:45 am onward
• 2008-11-21 Optional wiki tutorial
• 2008-11-10 Planning meeting
• 2008-11-03 Planning meeting

Resources

• Meetings
• Tools
• Topics
• Readings

Activities to allocate

• Course intro and discussion of discourse theory and examples
• Survey of spring syllabus after groups determined and first round of work
• Survey of discursive tools and practices