Fall 2021
Syllabus
- Week 1: The Internets That Weren’t
- Week 2: ARPANET
- Week 3: Afronet and the Digital Divide
- Week 4: Hypermedia and the World Wide Web
- Week 5: Navigation: Browsers, Portals, Search
- Week 6: Logistics: E-Commerce and the Question of Free Labor
- Week 7: Bubbles: News Silos and the Dot-com Crash
- Week 8: Sharing: Music, Peer-to-Peer Networks, and Piracy
- Week 9: Social Media and Content Moderation
- Week 10: Streaming: From JennyCam to Zoom
- Week 11: The Semantic Web and the Internet of Things
Assignments
- A1 Representation: Before the Internet
- A2: Production: Minitel Services
- A3: Consumption: Lost Sites and Web Design Comparison
- A4: Regulation: Paywalls, Takedowns, and Invitation-Only Communities
- A5: Production: Archaeology of an NFT
Fall 2020
Syllabus
- Week 1: The Internets That Weren’t
- Week 2: ARPANET
- Week 3: Afronet and the Digital Divide
- Week 4: Hypermedia and the World Wide Web
- Week 5: Navigation: Browsers, Portals, Search
- Week 6: Logistics: E-Commerce and the Question of Free Labor
- Week 7: Bubbles: News Silos and the Dot-com Crash
- Week 8: Sharing: Music, Peer-to-Peer Networks, and Piracy
- Week 9: Social Media and Content Moderation
- Week 10: Streaming: From JennyCam to Zoom
- Week 11: The Semantic Web and the Internet of Things