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History of the Information Age

  • 2025 Syllabus Draft — Version 0.98
    • Initial 2025 Syllabus Draft — Version 0.9
    • Initial 2025 Syllabus Draft — Version 0.95
  • Previous Course Materials
    • Initial 2023 Syllabus Draft — v.0.9
      • 2023 Assignments
      • 2023 Syllabus Draft — Version 0.97
    • 2021 Course Materials
      • Initial 2021 Syllabus Draft — Version 0.9
      • 2021 Assignments
    • 2019 Course Materials
      • 2019 Syllabus v. 1.0
        • 2019 Draft Syllabus v. 0.97
        • 2019 Draft Syllabus — Original 0.9
      • 2019 Assignments
      • 2019 Timeline Project Topics
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Introduction

January 15, 2025

Introduction Hello! I am excited to be joining 427 to learn the history of the information age. I look forward to having the opportunity to collaborate with everyone as we progress through the semester- working both virtually and in person. When reviewing the draft syllabus, the topics of national security… Read more“Introduction”

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Hello world!

January 15, 2025

Welcome to Sites@UMW. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

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Intro

January 14, 2025

Hello! My name is Ava Bredehoeft. I was born and raised in Vienna, Virginia and I am a history major.

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For Thursday, 1/16/25

January 17, 2025

For Thursday and by the start of class: Create a WordPress blog on your domain (or subdomain) or Sites@UMW site Post a blog post introducing yourself and explaining what interests you about the History of the Information Age (and address the items noted below). Canvas Message me the link OR submit as part of the …

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Hello world!

January 14, 2025

Welcome to Sites@UMW. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

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This is the site for the 2025 History of the Information Age course.

January 12, 2025

Class begins on Tuesday, January 14, 2025.

Start by checking out the draft version of the syllabus here before class on Tuesday.

More to come here.

Blog #14- 4/26/23

April 27, 2023

Class Reflection From starting with a discussion about dolphins thrown on tables to a dystopian future, we have covered a lot of ground throughout the semester. I had so much fun with this class this semester. It was a slow start at first, with the creation of the syllabus and assignments taking up the first […]

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Blog #14- 4/26/23

April 27, 2023

Class Reflection From starting with a discussion about dolphins thrown on tables to a dystopian future, we have covered a lot of ground throughout the semester. I had so much fun with this class this semester. It was a slow start at first, with the creation of the syllabus and assignments taking up the first […]

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Reflection

April 27, 2023

Going into this class, I wasn’t too sure about what kinds of things we would be learning about and focusing on, and I had never really heard of the “information age” before. The history classes I have taken throughout college have primarily been ancient or medieval history, with the exception of two colonial history classes […]

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Reflection

April 27, 2023

Going into this class, I wasn’t too sure about what kinds of things we would be learning about and focusing on, and I had never really heard of the “information age” before. The history classes I have taken throughout college have primarily been ancient or medieval history, with the exception of two colonial history classes […]

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Contributors

  • Abigail’s History of Information blog!
  • Ava Bredehoe
  • Blog, Blog, Blog–Orion
  • HIST 427 Blog — Ewan Highsmith
  • History of the Information Age Max H
  • History of the Information Age–Killian Petty
  • History of the Information Age–Nate G.
  • JackCollier.net
  • Jennifer Johnson’s Spring ’25 427 History of the Information Age
  • Kaine Beaumont’s Blog
  • Quynh’s HIST 427 Blog
  • The Information Age–Oliver M.

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