CS 492/CS 692 S22 Course Timetable

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

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Timetable of topics and assignments

Week 1
- Readings:
- May 2: overview of course
- May 4: overview of social implications of computers
- May 6: 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 9: the Internet
- May 11: the Internet
- May 12: assignment 1 due at 10am
- May 13: 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: Google and your privacy
  - 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 16: RPE3 on computers and universal identifiers (all)
- May 18: privacy and social control (group 1) (onl)
- May 19: assignment 2 due at 10 am
- May 20: privacy and social control (group 2) (onl)
Week 4
- May 25: RPE7 on job displacement (all-onl)
- May 27: open-ended thinking on pandemic (all-onl)
Week 5
- Readings:
  - Paper: Algorithms rule the world
  - Paper: Kelly Global Workforce Index - Technology & Work Life Balance
  - Paper: Break from Digital Overload (pdf)
  - Paper: Productivity Paradox
  - Paper: Canada and Working Productivity during Pandemic
  - Paper: State of Telework in the US (Skim)
  - Paper on e-trading: Loss of Trading Jobs
  - Paper: Microsoft outsourcing high-end jobs, union says
  - Paper: Robots replacing Jobs
  - Paper: Your Job Taught to Machines
- May 30: RPE10 on artificial intelligence (all) (asst1 back)
- Jun 1: the nature of work and productivity with computers (group 1) (onl)
- Jun 2: assignment 3 due at 10 am
- Jun 3: the nature of work and productivity with computers (group 2) (onl)
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: E-voting in Canada?
  - Paper: Cyberwarfare as an Economic Threat
  - Paper: Ransomware and Businesses
  - Paper: Bitcoin and the Dark Web
  - Paper: Bitcoin and Concerns in Canada
  - Paper: Bitcoin being embraced by Banks
- Jun 6: RPE2 on computer piracy; a4 groups introduced (all)
- Jun 8: computers and work, part two (e-commerce) (group1) (onl) (asst2 back)
- Jun 10: computers and work, part two (e-commerce) (group2) (onl)
Week 7
- Readings:
  - Paper on ACM code of ethics: ACM's Computing Professionals Face New Challenges
  - Paper on ethics of persuasive 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 13: AI ethics and guest speaker on ethics (**NEW all-onl)
- Jun 15: ethics and ethics workshop (group 1) (onl)
- Jun 17: ethics and ethics workshop (group 2) (onl)
Week 8
- Readings:
  - Paper: Cellphones and Texting have Blown Up the Dating Culture
  - Paper: Facebook manipulation
  - Paper: Podcasts popularity
  - 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: Responding to Email
  - Paper: Pulling ads due to hate speech
  - Paper: Digital assistants
  - Paper: Elon Musk, Twitter and Free Speech
- Jun 20: RPE9 on e-learning (all)
- Jun 22: computer-mediated communication (group 1) (onl) (asst3 back)
- Jun 23: assignment 4 due at 10am
- Jun 24: computer-mediated communication (group 2) (onl)
Week 9
- Readings:
  - Paper: Underrepresented Women in CS
  - Paper: Challenges for Women in CS
  - Paper: An Agenda for Women in CS
  - Paper: Racial imbalance in computer science
  - Paper: LGBTQ in computer science
- Jun 27: video games (all-onl)
- Jun 29: gender balance and marginalization (all-onl) (asst4 back)
Week 10
- Jul 4: RPE5 on computers and mobile devices (all)
- Jul 6: RPE1 on censorship in foreign countries (all)
- Jul 8: guest speaker on assisting the disadvantaged (all-onl)
Week 11
- Jul 11: RPE4 on computers and misinformation (all)
- Jul 13: RPE6 on computers and ransomware (all)
- Jul 15: if I ruled the world, part 1 (all)
Week 12
- Jul 18: RPE8 on computers and children (all)
- Jul 20: assignment 5 due; assignment 5B takes place (all)
- Jul22: course wrap-up; if I ruled the world, part 2; assignment 6 due (all)

Week 13

Jul 25: DATE used if any cancelled classes only (all)
Jul 26: DATE used if any cancelled classes only (uWaterloo uses this date as a Friday-replacement) (all)