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Privacy and Media Power Teaching

This is my second term at the Communication Department at UMass Boston and this term I am teaching a capstone course called Privacy: Communication, Technology, Society (early syllabus here) and News Media and Political Power (early syllabus here). The courses are lots of fun and the students seem to be responding well.

In the privacy course we have already had lectures and discussions on the history of the toilet and bedroom just to get things started. In Media Power we have discussed Postman, the causes of the Iraq war and the purpose of war.

Its going to be a busy and exciting term.

Posted on by Mathias Klang

Free Knowledge

Let me begin by admitting that I really cannot stand working out to music. It bores me to no end. Particularly if I am running, if the wrong song shows up I just lose the will to jog.

Sad as I am I really enjoy listening to lectures while working out. Sad I know. That’s why I really become happy when I find more free courses online. This happiness increased when I came across 250 new course online (via PhilosophyBytes)  after browsing a few minutes I was already downloading:

  • Hannibal – iTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford.
  • Introduction to Nonviolence – iTunes – Stream Audio and Video – Michael Nagler, UC Berkeley
  • Globalization – iTunes – Feed – MP3s – Robert Acker, UC Berkeley
  • European Civilization, 1648-1945 – iTunes – YouTube – Download Course – John Merriman, Yale
  • The Roman Empire – iTunes – Feed – MP3s – Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
  • Theories of Law and Society – iTunes – Feed – David Lieberman, UC Berkeley
  • History of Information – iTunes – Feed – Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley
Posted on by mklang