Hey! I’ll be teaching a course in spring quarter on “What is the Global Information Society?” with my colleague, Miriam Conteh-Morgan. I’ve just written a post about it on my Japanese Studies blog –

Spring Qtr: What Is the Global Information Society?

Syllabus is here: http://is.gd/wHrp

Manga is a good example, I think, of how information/knowledge functions in today’s “global information society.” I have been interested in this for some time, so that led to developing the course. In September 2008 I gave a paper, “Framing Knowledge: Global Youth Culture as Knowledge Society (Research in Progress)” that outlines my plans for further research into manga as global knowledge/information.

Of course, there are many other kinds of global information/knowledge. If you are interested in this kind of thing, please consider taking the course!