{"id":2,"date":"2018-01-06T18:18:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T18:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w18\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-03-19T03:04:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T03:04:41","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w18\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Miriam Posner
\nContact<\/a> | Book a meeting<\/a>
\nReader: Kristin Cornelius Way<\/p>\n

The infrastructure theorist Susan Leigh Star joked<\/a> that those of us preoccupied with infrastructure constitute a \u201cSociety of People Interested in Boring Things.\u201d Standards, systems, tubes, and wires \u2014 all of the prosaic linking apparatus that most people ignore \u2014 are in fact profoundly ideological and indisputably crucial. But how do we analyze something we don’t notice most of the time? How do we picture something so diffuse and slippery? Are other infrastructures and systems possible? How might we build them?<\/p>\n

This course will investigate 1) how and why infrastructure reflects some of a society\u2019s most basic ideas about how humans should relate to each other; and 2) what all of this has to do with professional practice in the information fields.<\/p>\n

WEEK:
\nONE<\/a> TWO<\/a> THREE<\/a> FOUR<\/a> FIVE<\/a> SIX<\/a> SEVEN<\/a> EIGHT<\/a> NINE<\/a> TEN<\/a> ELEVEN<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>WEEK ONE:
\nTHE SOCIETY OF PEOPLE INTERESTED IN BORING THINGS<\/strong>
\nMonday, January 8, 2018<\/em>
\n Wednesday, January 10, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n

Martin H. Krieger, \u00a0\u201cSystem and Network, Node and Link,\u201d in\u00a0Urban Tomographies<\/em> (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 54-70.<\/p>\n

Ingrid Burrington, \u201cA Network of Fragments,\u201d The Atlantic<\/em>, December 8, 2015, https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/12\/a-network-of-fragments\/419469\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Matt Parker, dir., “The Submarine Cable Network”<\/a> (episode 3 of\u00a0The People’s Cloud<\/em>), 2017.<\/p>\n

Additional Reading<\/em>
\nSusan Leigh Star, \u201cThe Ethnography of Infrastructure,\u201d in Boundary Objects and Beyond<\/i>, ed. Geoffrey C. Bowker et al. (MIT Press, 2016), http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7580150<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>WEEK TWO:
\nAN UNEXPECTED REPRIEVE!<\/strong>
\nMonday, January 15, 2018 – NO CLASS<\/em>
\n Wednesday, January 17, 2018 – NO CLASS<\/em><\/p>\n

We won’t meet this week, but you do have some reading and viewing! Please give some thought to the following pieces.<\/p>\n

Joe Lambert, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community<\/i>, 4th ed. (New York: Routledge, 2013). Read pages 59\u201368, 97\u2013102, and 105\u2013116.<\/p>\n

Nancy Kalow, Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary<\/i> (Durham, N.C.: The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, 2011), https:\/\/documentarystudies.duke.edu\/sites\/documentarystudies.duke.edu\/files\/kalow_Vis%20Stor.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Videos that might suggest some approaches for this assignment:<\/p>\n