The Literature of Online Communities

Each student is required to read, review and present one major from the literature of online communities. Short abstracts with reviews along with a brief biography of the author and their relevance to the course will be published on our class Wiki prior to in-class class presentations.

Choose from the list below or select another title, I am happy to help match the title with your interest areasin online community including history, policy, theory, fiction, legal, policy, economics, marketing, journalism, games and entertainment:

Try buying a book online, or find some of them online:

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006)
By Chris Anderson

The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
by John Battelle

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (2006)
by Yochai Benkler
http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks.pdf

T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (Autonomedia New Autonomy Series)
by Hakim Bey

The Social Life of Information (2000)
By John Seely Brown

From Barbie to Mortal Lombat: Gender and Computer Games (2000)
By Justine Cassell (ed), Henry Jenkins (ed)

The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2003)
By Manuel Castells

The Rise of the Network Society (2001)
By Manuel Castells

We the Media (2003)
by Dan Gillmor

Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities (1997)
by John Hagel, Arthur Armstrong

Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers (2006)
By Henry Jenkins

Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate (1997)
By Steven Johnson

Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation
by J. D. Lasica

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (2002)
By Lawrence Lessig

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity (2005)
By Lawrence Lessig

Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (2002)
By Lawrence Lessig

Better Together
by Robert D. Putnam and Lewis Feldstein.

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000)
by Robert D. Putnam
http://www.bowlingalone.com/

The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
By Eric Raymond

An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths (2006)
By Glenn Reynolds

The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993)
By Howard Rheingold

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold

Air
by Geoff Ryman

Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers (2006)
By Robert Scoble and Shel Israel

Trouble and Her Friends
by Melissa Scott

Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut (1997)
David Shenk

Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman (2002)
By Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Joshua Gay

The Victorian Internet
By Tom Standage

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
by James Surowiecki

Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (2001)
By Linus Torvalds

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything
by Joe Trippi

Life on Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1996)
By Sherry Turkle,

Information Rules: A Strategic guide to the Network Economy (1998)
By Hal Varian and Cark Shapiro

The Success of open Source (2005)
By Steven Weber

Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
by David Weinberger

Information Anxiety (1989)
By Richard Wurmen