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, in both CSE and the UW. We plan to collaborate with other departments, with possible aims including the production of cross-departmental courses, lecture series, or white papers.

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

Software

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

People

Scholars

• Paul Agre, prof. of information studies at UCLA

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
• Duke Intellectual Property program

Mailing lists

• Politech: libertarian-oriented list moderated by Declan McCullough
• EFFector: newsletter of the EFF
• Red Rock Eater: Phil Agre's mailing list

Sources

• Phil Agre's bibliography of books on social aspects of computing