During the fall semester of 2001, seven graduate students explored media technologies and their influence on societies, ancient and modern. We're pleased to present their work, in the form of annotated bibliographies, discussion essays, book reviews, informal notes for leading discussions, and their final research papers. For the syllabus of this course, see <http://www.unr.edu/journalism/syl.705.linn.html>.

The students created these web pages. Li Zhizhong created the page template and the Flash intro.

--Professor Travis Linn

Annotated Bibliographies

• How the Internet has affected news coverage (Banning)
• Web site privacy policies (Banning)
• Privacy and government (Jobe)
• Does television affect what we think? (Jobe)
• Intellectual property in the digital age (Li)
• Viruses, Hoaxes and computer security (Li)
• Cognition and Mass Media (Moody)
• Cookies, personalization and Internet privacy (Moody)
• Telephony (Petterson)
• How Computers Work (Rogers)
• The eternal page: electronic paper and digital ink (Wright)
• Mass media, the dragon and the bear (Wright)

Discussion Essays

• Should the U.S. have a policy for cultural imperialism? (Banning)
• The impact of new media on organizational strategies and structures (Jobe)
• Effects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on media technology (Moody)
• American influence on China through the Internet (Li)
• Do you have a right to privacy? (Petterson)
• The ethics of technologists (Rogers)
• The ownership of information (Wright)
• Videotext/Teletext--The Web that wasn't (Wright)

Book Reviews

• Media Lab, by Stewart Brand (Banning)
• The Myth of the Machine, by Lewis Mumford (Banning)
• The Future Does Not Compute, by Stephen Talbott (Petterson)
• Technologies of Freedom, by Ithiel de Sola Pool (Rogers)

Informal Discussion Notes

• Computer-related health problems (Banning)
• The effects of the Internet on news coverage (Banning)
• Military and spy satellites (Banning)
• Fiber Optic Distribution (Li)
• The inpact of the computer on the content of news (Li)
• The Minitel in France (Li)
• The Voice of America (Moody)
• The Library at Alexandria (Petterson)
• Technology in K-12 Education (Petterson)
• Global Positioning Systems (Petterson)
• American Imperialism in Advertising (Petterson)
• What is "The Well"? (Rogers)

Research Papers

• Modern-day Luddites (Banning)
• Political Campaigning: Usage of Media Technologies within Changing Environments (Jobe)
• Multimedia coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the top five most-trafficked news sites (Li)
• Electronic Media in Africa (Moody)
• Immediacy of news: How technology sets the media agenda and ultimately affects society (Petterson)
• The journalist machine (Rogers)
• Rethinking the digital self: A reply to certain issues raised in Sherry Turkle's Life on the Screen (Wright)