Assigned Readings

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This page contains the readings for the entire class. Please keep in mind that readings will be updated over the course of the semester, so check back frequently to make sure you aren't missing anything!

January 29 - Politics and Technology of Control: Introduction

Readings/Watchings

Optional Readings


February 5 - Paradigms for Studying the Internet

Readings

Optional Readings


February 12 - A Series of Tubes: Infrastructure, Broadband, and Baseline Content Control

Readings

Optional Readings

  • Dawn Nunziato, Virtual Freedom (Chs. 1 & 7) (pending)


February 19 - Whose Values? International Issues with Internet Regulation

Readings

  • Case Study: The Innocence of Muslims

Optional Readings


February 26 - Regulating Speech Online

Readings

  • Case Study: The SPEECH Act

Optional Readings

Links

Links from Adobe Connect Session

US Constitution: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html

State constitutions: http://www.constitution.org/cons/usstcons.htm

US regulations are in the Code of Federal Regulations: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collectionCfr.action?collectionCode=CFR

Map of the circuit courts and their jurisdictions: http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/images/CircuitMap.pdf

The Supreme Court has been taking fewer and fewer cases: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/us/29bar.html?_r=0

The International Shoe test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Shoe_v._Washington

A very influential case addressing websites is a district court case from Pittsburgh called Zippo Manufacturing v. Zippo Dot Com, Inc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippo_Manufacturing_Co._v._Zippo_Dot_Com,_Inc

A more recent case of "Libel Tourism" - this time concerning parties from Ethiopia: http://blog.indexoncensorship.org/2013/02/25/london-libel-ruling-against-ethiopian-dissident-shows-urgent-need-for-reform/

Shaari v. Harvard: http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/427/427mass129.html

This org has done a lot to make sure that online sites have to remove child porn: http://www.missingkids.com/home

The NPR talk show On Point with Tom Ashbrook had a segment on Cyberbullying and Sexual Shaming: http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/01/28/cyberbullying


March 5 - Copyright Part 1: Guiding Principles and Online Application

Assignments

The second half of assignment 2 (commenting on prospectuses) is due before class today. Information on the assignment can be found here.

Readings/Watchings

Optional Readings


March 12 - Copyright Part 2: Enforcement and Balances

Readings/Watchings

Case Study: SOPA/PIPA

Case Study: ISP "Six Strikes"

Optional Readings


March 19 - No class (Spring Break)

March 26 - Collective Action, Politics, and Protests

Assignments

As a reminder, Assignment 3 is due before class today. You can submit that assignment here.

Readings/Watchings

Optional Readings


April 2 - Peer Production: Development from the Edges and from the Crowd

Readings

  • if you’re not familiar, you may want to spend a little time looking at Wikipedia’s entry on Seti@home.

Optional Readings


April 9 - Hacking, Hackers, and Hacktivism

Readings

  • Sauter uses the term "DDoS" throughout. This is an abbreviation for "distributed denial of service," a specific form of attack to a web server described in more detail here.

Optional Readings


April 16 - Informing the Public in the Internet Age

Readings

Optional Readings


April 23 - Privacy

Readings

Optional Readings


April 30 - The Profitability of the Internet

Readings


Optional Readings


May 7 - No class - final project preparation

May 14 - Final Project due