Next Few Weeks Assignments in Shiny New Syllabus

Tuesday, February 13

Paul Hughes, A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

Clay Shirky, The RIAA Succeeds Where the Cypherpunks Failed

Thursday, February 15

Short Story, Maneki Neko by Sterling

Tuesday, February 20

James Boyle, Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain

Thrusday, February 22

James Boyle, Enclosing the Genome: What Squabble Over Genetic Patents Could Teach Us

Annalee Newitz, Genome Liberation

Tuesday, February 27

The Making of a Movement, Robert W. McChesney & John Nichols

Our Media, Not Theirs: Building the U.S. media reform movement by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols

The Problem of the Media: David Barsamian interviews Robert McChesney, Z magazine, February, 2006

Thursday, March 1

Dan Gillmore, We the Media, Chapters 1 and 9.

The following week we will turn to material available in your readers, Jurgen Habermas, Paul Starr, and Cintra Wilson.