Media Education and the Marketplace - Readings

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Required TextbooksNorris, Pippa. Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty,

and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

ISBN: 9780521002233.

Wresch, William. Disconnected: Haves and Have-nots in the

Information Age. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996. ISBN:

9780813523705.

Required readings for each class session are included in the table below.

WEEK TOPICS READINGS

Introduction and

Logistics for Class

Case Study: The MIT

OpenCourseWare Story

WSIS Discussion

Goldberg, Carey. "Auditing Classes at MIT, on the Web and

Free." The New York Times, April 4, 2001.

Vest, Charles M. "Why MIT Decided to Give Away All Its Course

Materials via the Internet." The Chronicle of Higher Education:

The Chronicle Review, January 30, 2004.

Lerman, Steven R., and Shigeru Miyagawa. "Open Course Ware:

Case Study in Institutional Decision

Making."Academe (September-October 2002).

Diamond, David. "MIT Everywhere." Wired Magazine, August 2

2003.

Bridging the Digital

Divide: Is There Anything

to Bridge? Is It Worth It?

National Telecommunications and Information

Administration. "Falling through the Net: Defining the DigitalDivide." InThe Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a

Myth?Edited by Benjamin M. Compaine. Cambridge, MA: MIT

Press, 2001, pp. 17-46. ISBN: 9780262531931.

Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat: A Brief History

the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and
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WEEKTOPICS READINGS

Giroux, 2005, pp. 3-47. ISBN: 9780374292881.

Norris, Pippa. Digital Divide: Civic Engagement,Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge, U

Cambridge University Press, 2001, chapters 1-2, pp. 3-38. ISBN:

9780521002233.

Compaine, Benjamin, ed. "Information Gaps: Myth o

Reality?" InThe Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a

Myth?Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 105-118. ISBN:

9780262531931.

Compaine, Benjamin, and Mitchell J. Weinramb.

"Universal Access to Online Services: An Examination of theIssue." InThe Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a

Myth?Edited by Benjamin M. Compaine. Cambridge, MA: MIT

Press, 2001, pp. 147-177. ISBN: 9780262531931.

Alden, Christopher. "Let Them Eat Cyberspace: Africa, the G8 an

the Digital Divide." Millennium: Journal of International

Studies 32, no. 3 (2003): 457-476.

Effective Proposal

Writing

Proposal Writing: Internet Resources- pay close attention to th

following sections:-Basic Elements of Grant Writing

-GrantProposal.com

-Proposal Writing Short Course

-Proposal Writing Budgeting Basics

Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat: A Brief History

the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and

Giroux, 2005, pp. 309-336. ISBN: 9780374292881.

Case Study: ICT Projects

at MIT: A Student Panel

Binur, Yaron, and Manish Gaudi. "A Student-Teaching-StudentModel in Kenya: A Case Study Following the Progress of the MIT

Africa Internet Technology Initiative." Working paper.

Gaudi, Manish, and Bryant Harrison. "MIT-AITI Executive

Summary: September 2005." Working paper.
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WEEKTOPICS READINGS

Wresch, William. Disconnected: Haves and Have-not

in the Information Age. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UniversityPress, 1996, Preface, Introduction, and Part I. ISBN:

9780813523705.

The Relationship

between ICTs and

Entrepreneurship

Prahalad, C. K. The Fortune at the Bottom of the

Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits. Upper Saddle Rive

NJ: Wharton School Publishing, 2004, chapters 1, and 3. ISBN:

9780131467507.

ICTs for Development:

Past Projects

Annamalai, Kuttayan, and Sachin Rao. What Works: ITC's e-

Choupal and Profitable Rural Transformation. Case Study by

World Resource Institute. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan

2003.

Phipps, Keisha, Genevieve Sangudi, and Steven Woolway. What

Works: Healthnet Uganda's Evolution from NGO to Sustainable

Enterprise. Case Study by World Resource Institute. Ann Arbor,

MI: University of Michigan, 2003.

Cohen, Nevin. What Works: Grameen Telecom's Village Phones

Case Study by World Resource Institute. 2001.Casas, Cynthia, and William LaJoie. Voxiva. Case Study. Ann

Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 2003.

Case Study: ICT Projects

at MIT: A Faculty Panel

Larson, Richard C., and M. Elizabeth Murray. "Distance Learning

as a Tool for Poverty Reduction: A Focus on Two Countries, Chin

and Mexico." Submitted as a Working Draft through the Learnin

International Networks Consortium (LINC). Cambridge, MA: MIT

2005.

Hardison, J., D. Zych, J. A. del Alamo, V. J. Harward, S. R. Lerman

S. M. Wang, K. Yehia, and C. Varadharajan. "The Microelectroni

WebLab 6.0 - An Implementation Using Web Services and the

iLab Shared Architecture." Presented at the Exploring Innovatio

in Education and Research Conference. Tainan, Taiwan, March 1

5, 2005.

Del Alamo, J., et al. "iLab: A Scalable Architecture for Sharing
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WEEKTOPICS READINGS

Online Experiments." International Conference on Engineering

Education. Gainesville, FL, October 16-21, 2004.Wresch, William. Disconnected: Haves and Have-not

in the Information Age. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University

Press, 1996, part II. ISBN: 9780813523705.

ICTs and Healthcare

Aanestad, Margunn, et al. Strategies for Development and

Integration of Health Information Systems: Coping with Historic

and Heterogeneity. Working Papers in Information Systems. Os

Norway: University of Oslo Information Systems group, 2005.

Adeyemi, Ao, Ayegboyin.A Study on the Use of InformationSystems to Prevent HIV/AIDS in Lagos State, Nigeria. Informedic

Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare

Development. 3rd Virtual Congress in Internet: March 1-30, 200

Braa, Jrn, and Calle Hedberg. Developing District-based Health

Care Information Systems: The South African Experience. MS.

0WSIS Wrap-Up

ICTs and Nations

Chan, Anita. "Coding Free Software, Coding Free States: Free

Software Legislation and the Politics of Code in

Peru."Anthropological Quarterly77, no. 3 (2004): 531-545.

1 ICTs and Democracy

Norris, Pippa. Digital Divide: Civic Engagement,

Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge, U

Cambridge University Press, 2001, parts II and III. ISBN:

9780521002233.

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Evaluation

Open Office Hours:Projects

3Final Project

Presentations
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Media Education and the Marketplace - Readings