InfoCoBuild

History C192: History of Information

History C192: History of Information (Spring 2011, UC Berkeley). Instructors: Professor Geoffrey Nunberg and Professor Paul Duguid. This course explores the history of information and associated technologies, uncovering why we think of ours as "the information age." We will select moments in the evolution of production, recording, and storage from the earliest writing systems to the world of Short Message Service (SMS) and blogs. In every instance, we'll be concerned with both what and when and how and why, and we will keep returning to the question of technological determinism: how do technological developments affect society and vice versa? The course is also listed as Cognitive Science C103.

Introduction


Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - Talking about Information: The Age of Information and the Information Revolution
Lecture 03 - Technological Determinism
Lecture 04 - The First Information Technology: Writing Systems
Lecture 05 - What Follows from Writing?
Lecture 06 - Manuscript Culture
Lecture 07 - Print Culture
Lecture 08 - The Emergence of the Public
Lecture 09 - Scientific Information & Medical Knowledge
Lecture 10 - Unnoticed Revolutions?: Time-keeping and Book-keeping
Lecture 11 - The Organization of Knowledge
Lecture 12 - The Organization of Knowledge: Language and the Dictionary
Lecture 15 - Narrowcast: Telephone and Telegraph
Lecture 16 - Information & Advertising
Lecture 17 - Intellectual Property
Lecture 18 - The Impact of Photography
Lecture 20 - The Rise of Broadcasting
Lecture 21 - Advent of the Computer
Lecture 23 - Storage & Search
Lecture 24 - Disintermediation, Dematerialization, Disaggregation and Other Disruptions
Lecture 25 - The Internet: Social Effects
Lecture 26 - Social Implications of the Internet II
Lecture 27 - Social Implications of the Internet III: Virtual Pollution