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History C192 - History of Information (Spring 2012)

UC Berkeley - History C192 - History of Information (Spring 2012). This consists of 27 video lectures given by 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. The course is also listed as Cognitive Science C103.

Lecture 01 - Introduction

Lecture 02 - Talking about Information

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 Revolution

Lecture 08 - Scientific Revolution

Lecture 09 - The Emergence of the Public

Lecture 10 - The Organization of Knowledge

Lecture 11 - A (not so) Secret Society, etc

Lecture 12 - Language and the Dictionary

Lecture 13 - Unnoticed Revolutions?

Lecture 14 - The Rise of Literacy

Lecture 15 - Information as Property

Lecture 16 - Communications Revolution

Lecture 17 - The Impact of Photography

Lecture 18 - Rise of the Penny Newspaper, Rise of the Mass Press, etc

Lecture 19 - Information & Advertising

Lecture 20 - Computer

Lecture 21 - The Rise of Broadcasting

Lecture 22 - Storage and Search

Lecture 23 - The Internet

Lecture 24 - Disintermediation, Dematerialization, Disaggregation, Disruption

Lecture 25 - Social Implications

Lecture 26 - The Internet: Social Effects

Lecture 27 - Social Effects of the Internet: Virtual Pollution