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June 3: History

Speakers:
Schement, Wellman

   
Speakers and Speaker Resources  
Jorge Schement

Presentation Slides (2M pdf)

International Award for Research

Benton Foundation

Digital Divide Network

Universal service from the bottom up: A study of telephone penetration in Camden, New Jersey. Information Society v12, n3 (Jul-Sep 1996): 273-292. 

Information Bill of Rights

Identifying Temporary and Permanent Gaps in Universal Service. The Information Society 16(2)

Expert Report of Jorge Reina Schement, October 15, 2001.  Presentation regarding the American Library Association's challenge to the requirement that libraries be forced to install anti-pornography filters on library computers in order to receive funds. His testimony dealt with the digital divide.

Of Gaps by Which Democracy We Measure (December 1999)
Beyond Universal Service: Characteristics of Americans without Telephones 1980-1993.

 
Barry Wellman

Presentation Slides (1.5M pdf file)

Publications

Information in Society (course syllabus)

 
   
   
List of WebShop Participants  

 

 

June 4: Navigation

Speakers:
Hargittai, Hendler, Shneiderman

   
Speakers and Speaker Resources  
Eszter Hargittai

Web Use Project

Second-Level Digital Divide: Differences in People's Online Skills

 
James A. Hendler  
Ben Shneiderman

Shneiderman, Ben, Irina Ceaparu, Jonathan Lazar, Katie Bessiere, and John Robinson. May 2002. "The New Computing: Ending User Frustration." Unpublished paper.  (WebShop presentaion slides, 500K pdf file)

Ceaparu, Irina and Ben Shneiderman. "Improving Web-based Civic Information Access: A Case Study of the 50 US States." Presentation at the 2nd Annual Graduate WebShop, University of Maryland, June 4, 2002. (WebShop presentaion slides, 1.4M pdf file)

Universal Usability

Universal Usability (Cont.)

HCIL Symposium


Library of Congress - American Memory

A Framework for Evaluating User Strategies in Internet Search and Evaluation

Clarifying Search: A User-Interface Framework for Text Searches
Information Seeking on the Web: An Integrated Model of Browsing and Searching

Gary M. Marchionini, 1995. Information Seeking in Electronic Environments.

Linda Tauscher and Saul Greenberg, 1997. "How People Revisit Web Pages: Empirical Findings and Implications for the Design of History Systems," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, volume 47, pp. 97-137.

 

 

 

 

June 6: Sociability

Speakers:
Cummings, Horrigan, Robinson

   
Speakers and Speaker Resources  
Jonathon N. Cummings  
John Horrigan

Pew Internet & American Life

Presentation Slides (670K pdf file)

 

 

 

June 7: Production

Speakers:
Greenberg, Landry, Stark

   
Speakers and Speaker Resources  
Lawrence Greenberg

Biography

The Motley Fool

Information Warfare and International Law


L.T. Greenberg and S.E. Goodman, "Is Big Brother Hanging by His Bootstraps?" Communications of the ACM, (July, 1996)pp 11-15,

 
David Stark

Biography

David Stark.  2002.  "Collaborative Organization and Interactive Technologies."

Jonathan Bach and David Stark. "Link, Search, Interact: The Co-Evolution of NGOs and Interactive Technology."

Gina Neff and David Stark.  "Permanently Beta: Responsive Organization in the Internet Era."


"Heterarchy: Distributing Authority and Organizing Diversity." In John Clippinger III, ed. The Biology of Business: Decoding the Natural Laws of Enterprise. Jossey-Bass, 1999

The Organization of Diversity—Travels with Sociologist David Stark through the Uncertain World of Heterarchy, Santa Fe Institute.

Girard, Monique and David Stark.  2001.  "Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in New Media Projects."  Santa Fe Institute working paper 01-12-082.

 

 

 

June 8: Funding

Speakers:
TBA

   
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June 10: Policy

Speakers:
Flyzik, Forman, Neuman, Russell

   
Speakers and Speaker Resources  
Mark Forman, President's Advisor on eGovernment, Office of Management and Budget

Biography

"Feds might use Microsoft product for online ID."  Seattle Times, Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 12:00 a.m. Pacific

2002 Federal 100 Award

Federal IT exec Mark Forman shares his plans for morphing national Web initiatives into a cohesive effort

"Mark Forman Gets His Dream Job"

 
James Flyzik, Office of Information Integration, White House Office of Homeland Security

April 15, 2002; Vol. 21 No. 8 "Flyzik will advise Ridge on IT security," GCN.

 
W. Russell Neuman, Senior Policy Analyst, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

The Gordian Knot : Political Gridlock on the Information Highway by W. Russell Neuman

 
Richard Russell, Associate Director, Technology Designate, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Statement by Richard Russell, Chief of Staff, Office of Science and Technology before the National Academy of Sciences

 

 

 

June 11: Community/Civil Society

Speakers:
Lakhani, Preece, Resnick, Rethemeyer

   
Speakers and Speaker Resources  
Karim Lakhani

Presentation Abstract and Biographical Sketch

Survey Provides New Insights into "Hacker" Culture

Open-source Offers Lessons In Common Goals (Boston Globe article)

How Open Source Software Works: 'Free' User-to-User Assistance?  (executive summary)

Linux developers 'creative and dedicated'  (vnunet.com)

The Boston Consulting Group Hacker Survey (slideshow)

 
Preece

Biography

'Online Communities' Web site

Online Chat with Jenny Preece, March 13, 2002

Online Communities: Designing usability, supporting sociability

Active World

Bobs ACL WWWBoard

 
Paul Resnick

Avery, Chris, Resnick, Paul, and Zeckhauser, Richard, The Market for Evaluations. American Economic Review 89(3): 564-584.

Resnick, P., Iacovou, N., Suchak, M., Bergstrom, P. and Riedl, J. (1994).  GroupLens: An Open Architecture for Collaborative Filtering of Netnews. In CSCW '94: Conference on Computer Supported Coorperative Work (Chapel Hill, 1994), ACM, pp. 175-186.

Beyond Bowling Together: SocioTechnical Capital


Friedman, Eric and Paul Resnick.
The Social Cost of Cheap Pseudonyms. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 10(2): 173-199

Resnick, Paul and Richard Zeckhauser.
Trust Among Strangers in Internet Transactions: Empirical Analysis of eBay's Reputation System. Working Paper for the NBER workshop on empirical studies of electronic commerce.

Resnick, Paul, Zeckhauser, Richard, Friedman, Eric, and Kuwabara, Ko.
Reputation Systems. Communications of the ACM, 43(12), December 2000, pages 45-48.

Chu, Yang-hua, Joan Feigenbaum, Brian LaMacchia, Paul Resnick and Martin Strauss (1997).
REFEREE: Trust Management for Web Applications, The World Wide Web Journal, special issue on "Web Security: a Matter of Trust," 1997, 2 (3), pp. 127-139.

Blaze, Matt, Feigenbaum, Joan, Resnick, Paul, and Strauss, Martin,
Managing Trust in an Information-Labeling System, European Transactions on Telecommunications, 8 (1997), pp. 491-501.

Resnick, Paul.
Filtering Information on the Internet. Paul Resnick. Scientific American, March 1997, pp. 106-108.

Reputation Systems Research Web site

 
Karl Rethemeyer

Presentation Slides (pdf)

 

 

 

June 12: Privacy

Speakers:
Hunter, Rasch, Rotenberg

   
Speakers and Speaker Resources  
Chris Hunter

Online Privacy Resources

 
Mark Rasch

"Computer Security: Are We Prepared for Cyberwar?"  Testimony before Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology, March 9, 2000

Slot Machine Justice for Melissa Author.  Under capricious computer crime sentencing rules, virus-writer David Smith managed to get the right prison term for all the wrong reasons.  (May 13, 2002)

 
Marc Rotenberg

Electronic Privacy Information Center

Privacy Law Sourcebook 2000

Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape (MIT Press 1998).

 
Jon Kleinberg

Presentation Abstract and Biographical Sketch

J. Kleinberg. Navigation in a Small World. Nature 406(2000), 845.

An extended version of this work is available as:

J. Kleinberg. The small-world phenomenon: An algorithmic perspective. Proc. 32nd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2000. Also appears as Cornell Computer Science Technical Report 99-1776 (October 1999).

J. Kleinberg. Small-World Phenomena and the Dynamics of Information. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 14, 2001.

J. Kleinberg, S. Lawrence. The Structure of the Web. Science 294(2001), 1849. This version also appears in the on-line edition of Science.

S. Chakrabarti, B. Dom, D. Gibson, J. Kleinberg, S.R. Kumar, P. Raghavan, S. Rajagopalan, A. Tomkins, Hypersearching the Web. Scientific American, June 1999.

S. Chakrabarti, B. Dom, D. Gibson, J. Kleinberg, S.R. Kumar, P. Raghavan, S. Rajagopalan, A. Tomkins, Mining the link structure of the World Wide Web. IEEE Computer, August 1999.

D. Gibson, J. Kleinberg, P. Raghavan. Inferring Web communities from link topology. Proc. 9th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 1998. PDF format available.

 
Kraut

"Internet Paradox Revisited"

"Internet Paradox"

 

 

 

 

June 14: International

Speakers:
Mao, Schulz, SSRC, Wilson
 

   
Speakers and Speaker Resources  
Mao  
Marcus Schulz  
Social Science Research Council  
Wilson

Diplomacy for the Digital Age.  Prepared for the State Department's Secretary's Open Forum Conversation Series, May 1999.

Taking Us From Here to There: The Role Of Leadership in the Transition to a Networked Society of 2020  (February 2001).

"Bridging the Information Technology Divide in Africa", Testimony before the House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa, May 16, 2001

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Board of Directors

 

 

 

June 17: TBA

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June 18: TBA

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June 19: TBA

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June 20: TBA

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June 21: TBA

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