The beauty of the conference method (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning) which we'll engage in this course, as well as the digital technologies we're planning to use in this course as 'classrooms' - SL and G+ Hangouts - are their real-time interactivity potential. So while I hope to produce videos in one hour of the course in the G+ Hangouts section for Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch), interactive participation is what I'm aiming for course-wise.
This course is actually quite relaxed (and focuses on fascinating ideas), and you're welcome to engage it in way you would like, - academically especially. (I hope we'll all be enjoyably writing about what interests us in "Information Technology and the Network Society" in general, whether in blogs, G+ Profile, academic papers, preparation for dissertations, etc. as well). Flourishing academic generativity, free thinking, an emergent conversation, and long term idea-exchange, are goals of this course.
In addition to reading "Networked: The New Social Operating System" (MIT 2013), this course asks:
What is information technology, broadly conceived? How did it develop? Who did it? What has been the process of diffusion into the economy and society? How and why did the Network Society take shape? What of the implications of networks in the Information Age? In this course, we’ll analyze the interaction between society and contemporary information technologies, in a multicultural and comparative perspective. In doing so, we’ll examine what data and evidence are in the social sciences, how it is used, and how it is interpreted.
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/09/information-technology-and-network.html.
Hi Cris, Icha, and All,
Thank you, Cris, in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Icha, in Varanasi, India, for your emails and welcome to 'Information Technology and the Network Society' course!
COURSE TIME (after much communication about this among us):
We'll meet Thursdays from 7:00am-9:00am PDT (SF Bay Area), which is 9:00pm-11:00pm in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (WIB).
Harvard's virtual island SLURL, where we'll meet from 7am-8am Pacific Daylight Time (SF Bay Area) this Thursday, September 19th in two days, is - http://maps.secondlife.com/
Then, from 8:10 am to 9 am PDT, we'll meet in a Google + group video Hangout accessible here - https://plus.google.com/u/0/
WHAT IS YOUR SL AVATAR NAME? Please email me it.
By time zone, with avatar name, from earliest to latest (please check and let me know of errors) ...
Please add your avatar name in this Google Docs' spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/
Scott - Aphilo Aarde -
| San Francisco (U.S.A. - California) | PDT | UTC-7 hours |
Ge - avatar name? -
| Chicago (U.S.A. - Illinois) | CDT | UTC-5 hours |
Ji - avatar name? - time zone?
Cris - avatar name? -
| São Paulo (Brazil - São Paulo) | BRT | UTC-3 hours |
Bila - avatar name? -
| Islamabad (Pakistan) | PKT | UTC+5 hours |
Swetha - avatar name? -
| New Delhi (India - Delhi) | IST | UTC+5:30 hours |
Parne - avatar name? -
| New Delhi (India - Delhi) | IST | UTC+5:30 hours |
Icha - avatar name? - Varanasi, India
| Varanasi (India - Uttar Pradesh) | IST | UTC+5:30 hours |
Jess - avatar name again? -
| Yogykarta (Indonesia - Jakarta Special Capital Region) | WIB | UTC+7 hours |
Here's a time converter - http://www.timeanddate.com/
These information technologies are amazing, and in real time, - and we are all all over the world!
(Again, please join this group, All -
https://groups.google.com/
See you online this Thursday at 7:00 am PDT on Harvard's island in Second Life.
Regards,
Scott
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