Seminar: The Age of Networks: Social, Cultural and Technological Connections

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 or Prof. Schiller.)