Information and Equity -- Lievrouw & Farb

Hess and Ostrom (2001, p. 45) point out, "Distributed digital technologies have the dual capacity to increase as well as restrict access to information."

Module 3: Information Access

Feb 20: Information Access and the Right to Receive Information

Instructor Lead: Jes Koepfler

Readings:

Jaeger, P. T., & Bertot, J. C. (2010). Transparency and technological change: Ensuring equal and sustained public access to government information. Government Information Quarterly, 27, 371-376.

Mart, S. N. (2003). The right to receive information. Law Library Journal, 95, 175–189.

Ross, A., & Caidi, N. (2005). Action and reaction: Libraries in the post 9/11 environment. Library & Information Science Research, 27, 97-114.

Whitehouse, G. (2009). A new clash between human rights and copyright: The push for enhanced exceptions for the print-disabled. Pub Res Quarterly, 25, 219-231.

Feb 27: Internet Access and the Right to Communicate

Instructor Lead: Jes Koepfler

Readings:

Eyrich-Garg, K. M. (2010). Mobile phone technology: A new paradigm for the prevention, treatment, and research of the non-sheltered “street” homeless. Journal of Urban Health 87(3), 365-380.

McIver, W. J., Birdsall, W. F., & Rasmussen, M. (2003). The Internet and the right to communicate. First Monday, 8(2). Available: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/mciver/

Koepfler, J. A., Templeton, T. C., & Fleischmann, K. R. (2012). Exploration of values and frames in social media texts related to the Homeless Hotspots debate. Proceedings of ASIST 2012, 1-4.

Mossberger, K., Tolbert, C. J., Hamilton, A. (2012). Measuring digital citizenship: Mobile access and broadband. International Journal of Communication, 6, 2492-2528.

Woelfer, J. P., Iverson, A, Hendry, D. G., Friedman, B., & Gill, B. T. (2011). Improving the safety of homeless young people with mobile phones: Values, form, function. Proceedings of CHI 2011.