Society and technology

The society and technology interest group (soctech) is an informal interest group that we are starting up among UW-CSE students to promote awareness of various social computing issues, both in CSE and the UW.

We're just getting started; we have a mailing list, soctech@cs. Here's the public list info page.

• soctech:Topics
• soctech:Articles

Current activities

• soctech seminar: plans for a seminar, to be offered first in Fall or Winter 2004-2005

Meeting notes

• soctech:Meeting of 2004-07-21
• soctech:Meeting of 2004-07-22
• soctech:Meeting of 2004-08-06

Relevant courses

• List of UW courses on society and technology
• Princeton Wireless course
• Princeton course by Brian Kernighan on "Computers in our world"
• Stanford course: "Digital Dilemmas"
• Syllabus of Rice's Anthropology 315 course (PDF)
• Yale course list; includes some courses on society and technology

Resources

• NGO in a box: bundled open-source software for running NGOs

Research centers

• Berkman Center @ Harvard Law
• Yale Information Society Project
• Yale Center for Internet Studies
• McGill Univ. Center for Intellectual Property Policy
• Duke Center for Study of the Public Domain