CS 492/CS 692 S20 Course Timetable

Classes are held Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays 8:30-9:20(sec1), 9:30-10:20(sec2).

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Timetable of topics and assignments

• Week 1
  • Readings:
    • Paper: Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
    • Paper: Some Thoughts About the Social Implications of Accessible Computing
    • Paper: Human Values and the Future of Technology
  • May 11: overview of course
  • May 13: overview of social implications of computers
  • May 15: overview of social implications of computers
• Week 2
  • Readings:
    • Paper on trust on the Internet: Trust, Authenticity, and Discursive Power In Cyberspace.
    • Paper: Google and Fair Use on YouTube
    • 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
    • Paper: Mental Health
    • Paper: Tech company control (pdf)
  • May 20: the Internet
  • May 21: assignment 1 due at 10am
  • May 22: the Internet (video on the Internet); assignment 2 sheet out; RPEs final
• 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 About You?
    • Paper: US government information gathering , Canadian CSIS concerns
      
    • Paper: NSA Security
    • Paper: NSA Prism and Tech Companies
    • Paper: Employee Rights to Privacy
    • Paper: Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal
    • Paper: European GDPR bill
    • Paper: We Can't Stop Sharing
    • Paper: Privacy and the Internet of Things
    • Paper: Data breaches
  • May 25: privacy and social control (group 1)
  • May 27: privacy and social control (group 2)
  • May 28: assignment 2 due at 10 am
  • May 29: let's solve a problem (part one) (all)
• Week 4
  • Jun 1: RPE4 on computers and liability (all)
  • Jun 3: RPE3 on computers and universal identifiers (all)
  • Jun 5: RPE5 on computers and extracurricular activity (all)
• Week 5
  • Readings:
    • Paper: Algorithms rule the world
    • Paper: Kelly Global Workforce Index - Technology & Work Life Balance
    • Paper: Break from Digital Overload (pdf)
    • 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
      
  • Jun 8: the nature of work and productivity with computers (group 1)
  • Jun 10: the nature of work and productivity with computers (group 2)
  • Jun 11: assignment 3 due at 10 am
  • Jun 12: RPE7 on displacement of workers (all)
• Week 6
  • Readings:
    • Papers on spam: Damn Spam , Canadian Anti-Spam Law, Geist on Anti-Spam
      
    • Paper: Evolving consumer behaviour
    • 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 on e-trading: Loss of Trading Jobs
      
    • Paper: Cyberwarfare as an Economic Threat
      
    • Paper: Ransomware and Businesses
      
  • Jun 15: time for A4 groups to meet (all)
  • Jun 17: work: e-commerce and the changing workplace (group 1)
  • Jun 19: work: e-commerce and the changing workplace (group 2)
• Week 7
  • Jun 22: RPE10 on artificial intelligence (all)
  • Jun 24: RPE9 on e-learning (all)
  • Jun 26: RPE1 on computers and censorship (all)
• Week 8
  • 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
  • Jun 29: ethics and ethics workshop (group 1)
  • Jul 2: assignment 4 due at 10am
  • Jul 3: ethics and ethics workshop (group 2)
• 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: Current prevalence of cyberbuylling
    • Papers on hate speech: Hate speech online , Social media hate
    • Paper: The Shadow Scholar
    • Paper: Deleting Emails
    • Paper: Unanswered Email
      
    • Paper: Digital assistants
    • Paper: **NEW: Pulling ads due to hate speech
  • Jul 6: computer-mediated communication (group 1)
  • Jul 8: computer-mediated communication (group 2)
  • Jul 10: RPE2 on piracy (all)