Welcome

This web site is the syllabus for the class "Communication Technology and Society" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Important Announcements

• The Final Exam Review Sheet has been posted to the Help/Handouts Page.
• Three new blog post prompts have been posted to the Assignments page (Blog Posts #10, #11, and #12). Please select 2 out of these 3 posts to complete and submit for grading on Tues. December 15, 2009 at 6pm (one hour before the Final Exam).
• All Extra Credit will be due at the same time (Tues. December 15, 2009 at 6pm).
• Extra Credit blog posts will be evaluated based on the same standards as all other blog posts (see the Help/Handouts page for Writing Requirements and Grading Rubric). Extra credit will only be awarded if the blog post is evaluated as an 80 or higher.
• The Final Review Session will be held on Sunday, December 13 from 5-7pm in 151 Everitt Lab (lecture room)

Essentials

Lectures meet in 151 Everitt Lab from 12:00-12:50 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays.

All discussion sections will meet in room G7 in the basement of the Foreign Languages Building (FLB)

Sections begin during week two:
AD1: 2-2:50 p.m. Thursdays
AD2: 3-3:50 p.m. Thursdays
AD3: 4-4:50 p.m. Thursdays
AD4: 5-5:50 p.m. Thursdays
AD5: 11-11:50 a.m. Fridays

Image Credits

From top: (1) Sonic the Hedgehog, from the game of the same name first released in 1991 for the Sega Genesis. Sonic the Hedgehog is a trademark of Sega Corporation. (2) The statue "The Spirit of Communications," by sculptor Evelyn Beatrice Longman (originally named "The Genius of Electricity"). From: Boettinger, H. M. (1977). The Telephone Book: Bell, Watson, Vail and American Life. Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Riverwood Publishers. Image reproduced by The Bell System Memorial. (3) A portion of the ARPANET as planned c. 1980, from ARPANET Completion Report: Heart, F., McKenzie, A., McQuillian, J., and Walden, D., (January 4, 1978). Bolt, Beranek and Newman: Burlington, MA.