16:194:601 COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND MEDIA PROCESSES

Hartmut Mokros, Tefko Saracevic, Linda Steiner

Preliminary schedule for Fall 2005

Date 2005 Lecturer & topic Summaries

Term paper
Summary assig. no.
Readings*
Sept. 7 Introduction - Mokros, Saracevic & Solomon      
Sept. 14 Overview - Mokros, Saracevic, Steiner
1.
 Buckland (1991), McMurtry (2002), Sapir (1949)
 Research statement
Sept. 21 History - Mokros, Saracevic, Steiner
2.
 Boyd (1996), D’Andrade (1996), Said (1993)
 
Sept. 28 Comm, Mokros
3.
 Toulmin (2000), Delia (1987), Peters (1999)
Oct 5. Comm, Mokros
4.
 Bateson (1996), Craig (1999), Deetz (1994)
.
Oct. 12 Review
5.
 Class discussion of proposed reserach topics
Preliminary report
Oct. 19 MS, Steiner

6.

 Carey (1989), Gitlin (1978), Hall, S. (1992)(on reserve under Hutchinson); Brookey - read only
Oct. 26

MS, Pavlik
7.
 Mosco (2001), McChesney (2000)
Norris
 
Nov. 2

MS colloquium
Greenberg, Bratich, Keith
8.
 Greenberg, Bratich (2004), Braman
 
Nov. 9 Comm colloquium
9.
 TBA
Nov. 16 LIS, Saracevic
Information science
10.
 Bush (1945), Brookes, pt 1 (1980) [on reserve], Saracevic (1999)
 
Nov. 23 no class, Thanksgiving
.
 
Nov. 30 LIS, Saracevic
Web searching & digital libraries
11. 
 Shera (1970), Webber (2003) [ both on reserve], Pettigrew & McKechnie (2001)
 
Dec 7. LIS colloquium
12.
 Radford (2005) [on class site], Muresan (2004)[journal article, but also on his site], Dalbello (2005) [on class site]
 
Dec. 14 Project presentations
 
   Term paper
* Author names refer to chapters or article for a given topic as listed in the syllabus bibliography. Other readings may be added.

last update 12 Nov 2005 Tefko Saracevic