About
this seminar--
CAS
587: Special Topics
The Age of Networks: Social, Cultural and Technological
Connections
Fall 2005
Mondays, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Levis Faculty Center, Music Room
Instructors:
Noshir Contractor (Speech Communication) and Dan Schiller
(Library and Information Science; Institute for Communications
Research)
This
interdisciplinary course will draw on scholarship
in computer science, humanities, engineering, life sciences,
law, organizational sciences and social sciences in order
to take an in-depth look at socio-technical networks and
theories for self-generating, self-organizing networks.
It will undoubtedly reveal many ironies, ambiguities, and
contradictions—precisely those shifting areas where
we are likely to discover basic human and societal values.
Faculty from different disciplines will take turns leading
the discussion.
Enrollment
limit for graduate students: 12 (permission of instructor
required. Please
contact Prof. Contractor, nosh@uiuc.edu or Prof. Schiller,
dschille@uiuc.edu.)
