Materials for this Class

Book list relating to the social and cultural context of information:

Abbate, Janet. Inventing the Internet (MIT)
Abbott, A. The System of Professions (Chicago)
Atsushi Akera, Calculating a Natural World (MIT 2008)
Allen, A. Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (Rowman & Littlefield)
Allen, A. Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide? (Oxford)
Anchordoguy, M. Computers INC: Japan’s Challenge to IBM (Harvard, 1990)
Aronowitz, Stanley and William DiFazio. The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work (Minnesota).
Aspray, W. Chasing Moore’s Law (SciTech).
Aspray, W. and Paul Ceruzzi, eds. The Internet and American Business (MIT, 2008).
Aspray, W. and B.M. Hayes, eds. Everyday Information (MIT, 2011).
Aspray, W, F. Mayadas, and M. Vardi, Globalization and the Offshoring of Software (ACM, 2006).
Avgerou, C., C. Ciborro, and F. Land. The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology: Innovation, Actors, and Contexts (Oxford, 2004).
Baker, Stephen. The Numerati (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008)
Balsamo, Anne. Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work (Duke 2011).
Battles, Matthew. Library: An Unquiet History (Norton, 2004).
Basbanes, N. Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the 21st Century (Henry Holt 2003).
Basbanes, N. Patience and Fortitude (Harper Perennial, 2003).
Bastian, J. and B. Alexander, Communities and Their Archives (Facet, 2009).
Baym, N. Personal Connections in the Digital Age (Polity 2010).
Benedict, K. Ethics and the Archival Profession (SAA, 2003).
Beniger, J. The Control Revolution (Harvard 1986).
Benkler, Y. The Wealth of Networks (Yale 2007).
Bijker, W., P. Hughes and T. Pinch, eds., The Social Construction of Technological Systems (MIT 1987).
Bishop, A., N. van House, P. Buttenfield, B. Schatz. Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation (MIT 2003).
Black, A. A New History of the English Public Library: Social and Intellectual Contexts, 1850-1914 (Leicester, 1996).
Black, Alistair D. Muddiman, and H. Plant. The Early Information Society (Ashgate 2007).
Black, A. S. Pepper, and K. Bagshaw. Books, Buildings, and Social Engineering (Ashgate 2009).
Borgman, C. Scholarship in the Digital Age (MIT, 2007).
Bourne, C. P. and T. Bellardo Hahn. A History of Online Information Services (MIT, 2003).
Bowker, G. Memory Practices in the Sciences (MIT 2005).
Bowker G. and S. L. Star. Sorting Things Out (MIT, 1999).
Brabazon, T., (ed.). The Revolution Will Not Be Downloaded – Dissent in the digital age (Chandos, 2008).
Braman, S. Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power (MIT, 2006).
Breazeal, Cynthia. Designing Sociable Robots (MIT, 2002).
Brock , G. The US Computer Industry (Ballinger 1975).
Brooks, Rodney. Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us (Vintage, 2002).
Brown, J. Seeley and Paul Duguid. The Social Life of Information (Harvard Business, 2002).
Brynjolfsson E. and A. Saunders. Wired for Innovation: How Information is Reshaping the Economy (MIT, 2010).
Boczkowski, P. Digitizing the News (MIT, 2004).
Cameron F. and S. Kenderdine. Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage (MIT, 2010).
Carr, Nicholas G., Does IT Matter? (Harvard Business, 2004).
Carr, Nicholas The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains (Norton 2010).
Knorr Cetina, Karin. Epistemic Cultures (Harvard, 1999).
Chandler, A. and J. Cortada. A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present (Oxford 2003).
Cohoon, J. and W. Aspray, eds. Women and Information Technology (MIT 2006).
Cortada, J., ed. Rise of the Knowledge Worker (Butterworth-Heinemann 1998).
Cortada, J. How Societies Embrace Information Technology (Wiley/IEEE Computer Society 2009).
Cortada, J. Information Technology as Business History (Greenwood 1996).
Cortada, J. Before the Computer (Princeton, 2000).
Cortada, J. The Digital Hand (3 vols, Oxford, 2003, 2005, 2007).
Coyne, R. The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media (MIT, 2010).
D’Adderio, Luciana. Inside the Virtual Product: How Organizations Create Knowledge through Software (Research Studies Press, 2004).
Darnton, R. The Case for Books (Public Affairs, 2010).
Davidson, C. and D. Goldberg, The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (MIT 2010).
Deuze, M. Media Work (Polity, 2007).
Douglas, S. Inventing American Broadcasting (Johns Hopkins, 1989).
Dourish, P. Where the Action Is: Foundations of Embodied Interaction (Bradford/MIT 2004).
Dourish, P. and G. Bell. Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing (MIT, 2011).
Downey, G. The machine in me: An anthropologist sits among computer engineers (Routledge, 1998).
Edwards, Paul. A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT 2010).
Edwards, Paul. The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (MIT, 1997).
English-Lueck, J.  Cultures@Silicon Valley. Palo Alto: (Stanford, 2002).
Ensmenger, N. The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise (MIT 2010).
Fischer, C. America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940 (California 1992).
Flamm, K. Creating the Computer (Brookings, 1988).
Forsythe, D. Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence. (Stanford, 2001).
Garrison, D. Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920 (Free Press, 1979).
Garson, Barbara. The Electronic Sweatshop (Penguin, 1989).
Grier, D. When Computers Were Human (Princeton, 2007).
Golumbia, David. Cultural Logic of Computation (Harvard 2009).
Hackett, E.J., Amsterdamska, O., Lynch, M., and Wajcman, J., eds. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. (MIT, 2008).
Hafner, Katie and Matthew Lyon. Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Touchstone 1996).
Hakken, David. Cyborgs@Cyberspace? An Ethnographer Looks to the Future  (Routledge, 1999).
Hakken, David. The Knowledge Landscapes of Cyberspace (Routledge, 2003).
Harper, Kristine C. Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology (MIT, 2008).
Harris, Verne and Terry Cook, Archives and Social Justice: A South African Perspective (SAA, 2007).
Henderson, Kathryn. On Line and On Paper: Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphics in Design Engineering (MIT, 1998).
Hess, C. and E. Ostrom, Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice (MIT, 2006).
Hamilton, C. et al, eds. Refiguring the Archive (Springer, 2002).
Hayles, K. How We Became Posthuman (Chicago, 1999).
Hindman, M. The Myth of Digital Democracy (Princeton, 2008).
Hinds, P.J., and Kiesler, S., eds. Distributed Work (MIT, 2002).
Hobart, M. and Z. Schiffman, Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution (Johns Hopkins, 2000).
Howard, P. The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam (Oxford, 2010).
Hutchins, Edwin. Cognition in the Wild (Bradford, 1996).
Ito, M. Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children’s Software (MIT, 2009).
Jimerson, R. Archives Power (SAA, 2009).
Kafai, Y. et al. Beyond Barbie and Mortal Combat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming (MIT, 2011).
Kallinikos, J. The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change (Edward Elgar, 2008).
Kelty, Christopher. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software (Duke 2008).
Kunda, G. Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation (Temple 2nd ed., 2006).
Lanier, Jaron. You are Not a Gadget (Vintage 2010)
Lankes, R. David. The Atlas of New Librarianship (MIT, 2011).
Laurel, B. Computers as Theater (Addison Wesley 2003).
Lave, J. and E. Wenger. Situated Learning (Cambridge, 1991).
Lessig, L. Code Version 2.0 (Basic Books, 2006).
Lessig, L. Remix (Penguin, 2008).
Levy, David. Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age (Arcade, 2003).
Levy, Frank, and Richard Murnane. The New Division of Labor: How Computers are Creating the Next Job Market (Princeton, 2005).
Lewis, Alison. Questioning Library Neutrality (Library Juice Press, 2008).
Light, J. From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America (Johns Hopkins 2003).
Liverouw, L. Alternative and Activist New Media (Polity 2011).
Lynch, M. and S. Woolgar. Representation in Scientific Practice (MIT, 1990).
Machlup, F. Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution, and Economic Significance (2 vols., Princeton, 1980, 1982).
Machlup, F. and U. Mansfield, eds. The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Messages (Wiley, 1983).
Mackenzie, Adrian. Cutting Code: Software and Sociality (Peter Lang 2006).
MacKenzie, D. Knowing Machines (MIT, 1998).
MacKenzie, D. and J. Wajcman, The Social Shaping of Technology (McGraw Hill Education/Open University, 1999).
Margolis, J. Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing (MIT 2010).
Marvin, C. When Old Technologies Were New (Oxford, 1990).
Menzel, Peter and F. D’Aluisio. Robo Sapiens: Evolution of a New Species (MIT, 2000).
Molz, R.K. Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Age (MIT, 2001).
Monfort, Nick and Ian Bogost. Racing the Beam (MIT, 2009).
Montgomery, K. Generation Digital (MIT, 2009).
Moravec, Hans. Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence (Harvard 1988).
Morville, Peter. Ambient Findability (O’Reilly 2005).
Murray, J. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (MIT, 1998).
Nardi, Bonnie. A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing (MT, 1993).
Nardi, Bonnie, and Vicki O’Day. Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart (MIT 1999).
Nebeker, F. Calculating the Weather (Academic Press, 1995).
Nissenbaum, H. Privacy in Context (Stanford Law Books, 2009).
Nissenbaum, H. and M. Price, eds. Academy and the Internet (Peter Lang, 2004).
Noble, D. Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (Knopf, 1984).
Nye, D. Technology Matters (MIT, 2007).
Ong, W. Orality and Literacy (Routledge, 2nd ed. 2002).
Orr, Julian. Talking About Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job (Cornell, 1996).
Pariser, Eli. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You (Penguin 2011).
Pateman, John. and John Vincent. Public Libraries and Social Justice (Ashgate, 2010).
Porat, M. The Information Economy (U. Michigan Library reprint, 1977).
Poster, Mark. Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines (Duke, 2006).
Proctor, M., C. Cook, and M.G. Williams, eds. Political Pressure and the Archival Record (SAA, 2005).
Rifkin, Jeremy. The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era (Tarcher, 1996).
Rubin, M. and M. Huber. The Knowledge Industry in the United States, 1960-1980 (Princeton, 1986).
Sellen, Abigail and Richard Harper. The Myth of the Paperless Office (MIT 2002).
Shapin, S. A Social History of Truth (Chicago, 1995).
Shapiro, C. and H. Varian. Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 1998).
Shy, O. The Economics of Networked Industries (Cambridge 2001).
Solove, D. Understanding Privacy (Harvard, 2010).
Solove, D. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (Yale, 2008).
Spinuzzi, Clay. Tracing Genres through Organizations: A Sociocultural Approach to Information Design (MIT, 2003).
Star, S. L. Ecologies of Knowledge (SUNY, 1995).
Stefik, M. ed., Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors (MIT, 1997).
Stevens, Mitchell. The Rise of the Image, The Fall of The Word (Oxford, 1998).
Sunstein, C. Infotopia (Oxford, 2008).
Taylor, Robert S. Value-Added Processes in Information Systems (Ablex, 1986).
Thomas, Michael. Deconstructing Digital Natives (Routledge 2011).
Thomke, Stefan. Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation (Harvard Business, 2003).
Thompson, P., R. Parker and P. Boreham. New Technology @ Work (Routledge, 2008).
Trend, David, ed. Reading Digital Culture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001).
Sherry Turkle. Simulation and its Discontents (MIT, 2009).
Sherry Turkle, ed. The Inner History of Devices (MIT 2008).
Ullman, Ellen. (1997) Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents (City Lights, 2nd ed. 2001).
van den Hoven, J. and J. Weckert, eds. Information Technology and Moral Philosophy (Cambridge, 2009).
van Dijck, Jose. Mediated Memories in the Digital Age (Stanford, 2007).
Varian, H., J. Farrell, and C. Shapiro. The Economics of Information Technology (Cambridge, 2005).
Warschauer, M. Technology and Social Inclusion (MIT, 2004).
Watkins, S. C. The Young and the Digital (Beacon 2010).
Weber, Steven. The Success of Open Source (Harvard, 2005).
Webster, Frank. Theories of the Information Society (Taylor & Francis, 2nd ed. 2002).
Wenger, E. Communities of Practice (Cambridge, 1999).
Wiegand, W. The Politics of an Emerging Profession: The American Library Association (Greenwood, 1986).
Wiegand, W. Uncovering Labour in Information Revolutions, 1750-2000 (Cambridge, 2004).
Willinsky, J. The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT, 2009).
Wright, A. Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages (Cornell, 2008).
Wu, T. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Knopf, 2010).
Yates, J. Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management (Johns Hopkins, 1993).
Yates, J. Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century (Johns Hopkins 2005).
Yates, JoAnne, and John Van Maanen, eds. Information Technology and Organizational Transformation (Sage, 2000).
Yost, J. The Computer Industry (Greenwood 2005).
Zeegers, M. and D. Barron. Gatekeepers of Knowledge: A Consideration of the Library, the Book and the Scholar in the Western World (Chandos 2010).
Zuboff, S. In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (Basic, 1989).
Zunshine, Lisa, ed. Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies (Johns Hopkins, 2010).

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