LIS5411 - Introduction to Information Policy

Welcome to the Course!

This front page - in Canvas - is the primary source of material for this course; everything you need for the course will be available here. Many links go through http://jrm4.com (including a mirror of this page for backup and emergency purposes),

The course will be administered through Zoom.

There will be groupwork during most classtimes, but not the first day.

Contacting me should be done through regular email, at jmarks@fsu.edu

Note: I'm also a big fan of Discord (link for my thoughts and information on it, if unfamiliar) It is not required, but I will make my semi-private (non-profit) Discord server available to you all, with a channel dedicated to this class. You may use this for class-wide discussions, as well as a meeting point if you'd like to use Discord instead of the Zoom rooms.

Feel free to peruse the older readings (available at the jrm4.com mirror of the site if you can't see them here, check to the side or below if you're on your phone once you've clicked through - - https://jrm4.com/FSU_Courses/LIS5411.html Though, note, the readings and course arc may change drastically, given that the real world of information and tech policy has some *very* interesting upcoming matters to deal with.

+Syllabus

Week 2 - Intro

Intro to Info Policy
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/02/policy_vs_techn.html
Interesting - https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/law-policy-and-it/2023/05/01/real-reason-information-policy


The Econ I'm (not) talking about
How economics became a religion

On Econ
Wealth of Networks - Benkler
The Attention Economy and the Net

On Law
Transcendental Nonsense
The Law of the Horse



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