Hi John,

you might consider including Katherine Hayles "How we Became
Posthuman" for its great overview of the Macy debates and how
information 'lost its body.' Also provides a bit of an inroads into
Donald MacKay's theory of information.


On 14-Aug-12, at 10:28 AM, august wrote:

>
> John,
>
> Good luck with the course! Looks like a great reading list and should
> be interesting and fun.
>
> I'm surprised that with your engineering background you didn't include
> "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" by Shannon. ..Or anything on
> general information theory by Shannon and Weaver.
>
> Seems like any course on "information" should proly at least
> superficially cover the basic mathematical concepts and definitions
> (such as source coding and stochastic signals) ...which are
> counter-intuitive and almost at direct odds with the lay-man's
> definition of information.
>
> -august.
>
>
>> Say bricos -- I want to put a call out for texts that any of you
>> might
>> consider indispensable for a course falling under the title
>> "Meaning of
>> Information Technology" -- I was asked to teach this, and although
>> there
>> is a general framework/syllabus from previous teachers, I figured I
>> would query this august grouping of folks first to see what they
>> might
>> suggest. I've started a Zotero sub-library
>> https://www.zotero.org/jhopkins/items/collectionKey/2IJFXETW (just
>> now
>> uploading the bulk of what I have already)... The general attributes
>> about the course can be found at http://tam.colorado.edu/
>> teaching.php --
>> I will NOT be making powerpoints, but instead will be facilitating
>> knowledge-building in a variety of non-standard ways (& dealing
>> with 40
>> students!). Any input is welcome! (Rob -- what's the crucial IOT text
>> (or two)?)
>>
>> cheers,
>> John
>>
>>
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