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:
    • 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 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)
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• 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:
    (For video games read the articles here and here)
    • 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)