CS 492/CS 692 W18 Course Timetable

Classes are held Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays 9:30-10:20(sec2), 10:30-11:20(sec1), in QNC 1506.

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Timetable of topics and assignments

Week 1
- Readings:
- Jan 3: overview of course
- Jan 5: overview of social implications of computers
Week 2
- Readings:
  - Paper on trust on the Internet: Trust, Authenticity, and Discursive Power In Cyberspace.
  - Paper: Viacom sues Google over YouTube clips
  - Paper: Copyright Protection Policies To Be Developed by Google
  - Paper: Wikipedia in the Newsroom
  - Paper: The Web Runs on Love, Not Greed
  - Paper: Is Google Making Us Stupid?
  - Paper: Google and the Right to be Forgotten
  - Paper: Fake news
  - Paper: Internet Addiction
- Jan 8: the Internet
- Jan 10: the Internet
- Jan 11: assignment 1 due at 10am
- Jan 12: video on the Internet
Week 3
- Readings:
  - Primer on the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, [pdf].
  - Paper on the Act: Guide for Businesses and Organizations to Canada's Personal Infor mation Protection and Electronic Documents Act, [pdf].
  - Paper: Does Google Know Too Much?
  - Paper: Does Google Know Too Much About You?
  - Paper: US government information gathering , Canadian CSIS concerns
  - Paper: NSA Security
  - Paper: NSA Prism and Tech Companies
  - Paper: NSA Security Update
  - Paper: Employee Rights to Privacy
  - Paper: Google Glass users fight privacy fears
  - Paper: We Can't Stop Sharing
  - Paper: Privacy and the Internet of Things
- Jan 15: privacy and social control (group 1)
- Jan 17: privacy and social control (group 2); RPEs finalized
- Jan 19: RPE3 on computers and universal identifiers (all)
Week 4
- Readings:
  - Paper: Programming our lives away
  - Paper: Kelly Global Workforce Index - Technology & Work Life Balance
  - Paper: Break from Digital Overload
  - Paper: Solving the Productivity Paradox
  - Paper: Beyond the Productivity Paradox
  - Paper: State of Telework in the US (Skim)
  - Paper: Present Shock
  - Paper: The Rise of the Robots and Shadow Work
  - Paper: Your Job Taught to Machines
- Jan 22: the nature of work and productivity with computers (group 1)
- Jan 24: the nature of work and productivity with computers (group 2)
- Jan 25: assignment 2 due at 10 am
- Jan 26: RPE7 on displacement of workers (all)
Week 5
- Readings:
  - Papers on spam: Damn Spam , Canadian Anti-Spam Law, Geist on Anti-Spam
  - Paper: Online Salvation? (e-journalism)
  - Paper: Experiments with E-Voting Technology (skim)
  - Paper: E-voting challenge to democracy
  - Paper: New Jersey Lets Sandy Victims Vote Via E-Mail
  - Paper: Microsoft outsourcing high-end jobs, union says
  - Paper: Big Data
  - Paper: Canada Post
  - Paper: 3-D Printed Guns
  - Papers on e-trading: Algorithmic Trading, Loss of Trading Jobs
- Jan 29: work: e-commerce and the changing workplace (group 1)
- Jan 31: work: e-commerce and the changing workplace (group 2)
- Feb 2: RPE4 on personalized advertising on the web (all)
Week 6
- Readings:
  - Paper on ACM code of ethics: ACM's Computing Professionals Face New Challenges
  - Paper on ethics of pervasive technology: Towards an Ethics of Persuasive Technology
  - Paper on student facing explusion over Facebook: Student faces Facebook consequences
  - Paper on ethics and responsibility: Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Computing
- Feb 5: ethics and ethics workshop (group 1)
- Feb 7: ethics and ethics workshop (group 2)
- Feb 8: assignment 3 due at 10 am
- Feb 9: guest speaker on crowdsourcing and citizen science (all)
Week 7
- Feb 12: RPE8 on computers and children (all)
- Feb 14: RPE9 on e-learning (all)
- Feb 16: RPE2 on computers and piracy (all)
Week 8
- Break week. No classes.
Week 9
- Readings:
  - Paper: Cellphones and Texting have Blown Up the Dating Culture
  - Paper: Employers, marketers and parents accessing Facebook database
  - Paper: Facebook manipulation
  - Paper: Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics?
  - Paper: Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
  - Paper: Victims of Cyberbullying
  - Paper: Cyber-bullying on social media debated in Parliament
  - Paper: Attempted Cyber-bullying Legislation
  - Paper: Hate speech online
  - Paper: The Shadow Scholar
  - Paper: Deleting Emails
  - Paper: Unanswered Email
- Feb 26: Time for A4 groups to meet (all)
- Feb 28: computer-mediated communication (group 2)
- Mar 2: computer-mediated communication (group 1)
Week 10

Readings:
- Paper: The Limits of Correctness
- Paper: Therac-25 case (skim)
- Paper: A Nascent Robotics Culture: New Complicities for Companionship
- Paper: Hawking and Russell on AI and the Public
- Paper: The Singularity May Never Be Near.
- Paper: An Electronic Pearl Harbor? Not Likely.
- Paper: The Online Threat.
- Paper: Obama and Cameron Exposing the Internet
- Paper: Communications Surveillance: Privacy and Security at Risk
- Paper: Internet-of-Things spying
- Paper: Canadian cellphone spying
Mar 5: fears from computerization (group 1)
Mar 7: fears from computerization (group 2)
Mar 9: guest speaker on computers and health; assignment 4 due in class (all)

Week 11
- Mar 12: RPE6 on net neutrality (all) (1030AM section); film on video games (all) (930AM section)
- Mar 14: RPE1 on censorship (all)
- Mar 16: RPE5 on computers and extracurricular activity (all)
Week 12
- Readings:
- Mar 19: what's in the news? (all)
- Mar 21: discussion on video game addiction (all)
- Mar 23: assignment 5 due; assignment 5B takes place (all)
Week 13
- Mar 26: open discussion on gender balance (all)
- Mar 28: course wrap-up; assignment 6 due (all)