Monday 8/29: Introduction (course description, objectives, schedule, assignments, grading, policies, personal introductions and questions)
Wednesday 8/31: Being Digital
Before Class: Explore Computer History Museum, Digital Logic [online exhibit]
Friday 9/2: Section Introductions
Week 2
Monday 9/5: No Class– Labor Day
Wednesday 9/7: Theoretical Frameworks(internalism, externalism, determinism, and the Social Construction of Technology)
Before Class: Read Ronald Kline and Trevor Pinch. “Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States.” Technology and Culture 37, no. 4 (1996): 763–95. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3107097. (Available from the UConn Library. If you don’t know how to use the Library and its online databases, you can ask a librarian.)
Friday 9/23: Readings Discussion – Midterm Essay prompt released at 2:00 pm
Week 5
Monday 9/26: Tron: Background and Watch Guide
Wednesday 9/28: No Class – Watch Tron (1982 version) at home (available to stream on Disney+ with audio description and Amazon Prime Video without audio description)
Friday 9/30: Tron Discussion
Week 6
Monday 10/3: The Internet and The Web
Before Class: Explore Computer History Museum, Networking [online exhibit] and The Web [online exhibit]