STM-481: The Internet: Issues at the Frontiers: Seminar

Semester: Spring

Credit: 1.0

Faculty: Cass Sunstein, Jonathan Zittrain

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day 2/2
Meet Day M 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM HLS
Review
Apply to Prof. Zittrain by Oct 31. Organizational meeting in fall

Description

This seminar explores frontiers question involving the Internet. Anticipated issues involve innovation, copyright, new uses of the wiki form, prediction markets, democratic polarization, and collective intelligence. Students will be expected to participate actively in innovative course design, and we might attempt to involve numerous people all over the world in the course through the Internet.Admission with permission of instructors. Statements of interest and C.V.s  should be sent to Moira Harding at mharding@law.harvard.edu by Friday October 31 for full consideration.  Note that there will be 2 or 3 evening organizational  meetings scheduled in the fall (arranged so as not to conflict with any class schedules) Also offered by the Law School as LAW-99045A