Week 9 - March 22 and 24, 2005
E-Commerce – Property and Power
- Group Project 11: E-Commerce and CopyrightConundrum
- Group Project 12: Seacrh Engines as Tool and Structure
Assignments
- For Tuesday: Elizabeth Reid, “Hierarchy and Power. Social Control in Cyberspace,” Communities in Cyberspace, 107-133
- Robert Burnett and P. David Marshall, “The Web Economy” Web Theory, 105-125.
- Lawrence Lessig and Matt Oppenheim discuss Virtual Copyright
- For Thursday:
- Vincent Miller, “Search Engines, Portals and Global Capitalism,” Web.Studies, 113-121.
- Andrew Gerhart, "Understanding and Building Google Page Ran k" Understanding and Building Google Page RanK"
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Links
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