Digital Civil Society

Suggested Readings
Access
Susan Crawford, Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New
Gilded Age, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013
Activism
Gabriella Coleman, Hackers, Hoaxers, Whistleblowers, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous,
London, Verso Press, 2014
Gabriella Coleman, Coding Freedom: The ethics and aesthetics of Hacking, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2010 and online
http://gabriellacoleman.org/Coleman-Coding-Freedom.pdf
Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport, Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet
Age, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011
David Karpf, The MoveOn Effectt: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political
Advocacy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012
Lorrie Lejeune and Ethan Zuckerman, Global Dimensions of Digital Activism, MIT Center for
Civic Media. http://book.globaldigitalactivism.org/
Civil Rights
Seeta Pea Gangadharian, Virginia Eubanks and Solon Barocas,
Data and Discrimination, Collected Essays, http://www.newamerica.org/downloads/OTI-Dataan-Discrimination-FINAL-small.pdf
Consent/Opting in/Voluntary
JeantineE.Lunshof,RuthChadwick,DanielB.Vorhaus,&GeorgeM.Church,From Genetic Privacy to open
consent, Nature, NatureReviewsGenetics9,406411(May2008)|doi:10.1038/nrg2360

http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v9/n5/full/nrg2360.html

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,

Data and Algorithms

Frank Pasquale, The Algorithmic Self, The Hedgehog Review, v 17, #1, Spring 2015
http://www.iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2015_Spring_Pasquale.php

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Frank Pasquale, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Society,
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2015
Bruce Schneier, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect your Data and Control your
World, New York: W.W. Norton, 2015
Internet of Things
Nonprofits / Open Source
David Bollier, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of their Own, New
York: The New Press, 2008
Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the Worlds Greatest
Encyclopedia, New York: Hyperion, 2009
Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom (2.0) Richard Stallman and the Free Software Revolution,
Boston, 2010
Privacy/surveillance
Thomas Keenan, Technocreep: The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy,
London, OR Books, 2014
Kieron OHara and Nigel Shadbolt, The Spy in the Coffee Machine: The End of Privacy as we
Know it, OneWorld Publications, 2008
Governance/Policy
Cory Doctorow, Information Doesnt Want to be Free: Laws for the Internet Age, San Francisco,
McSweeneys, 2014

Viktor Mayer Schonberger and David Lazer (eds) Governance and Information Technology,
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007

Antonio Casilli, Four theses on mass surveillance and privacy negotiation,

https://medium.com/@AntonioCasilli/four-theses-on-digital-mass-surveillance-and-thenegotiation-of-privacy-7254cd3cdee6

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Security/War/Crime

P.W. Singer, Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century, NY:
Penguin Books, 2009

Marc Goodman, Future Crime: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable and what we
can do about it, New York: Doubleday, 2015

Andrew Hessel, Marc Goodman, and Steven Kotler, Hacking the Presidents DNA, The
Atlantic, October 24, 2012 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/hacking-thepresidents-dna/309147/

Society etc.
Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013
Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything Click Here: the Folly of Technological Solutionism, New
York: Public Affairs, 2013
Bruce Schneier, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive, San
Francsico: Wiley and Co, 2012
Matthew Hindman, The Myth of Digital Democracy, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2008

Ethan Zuckerman, Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, New York: W.W.
Norton, 2013
Teens in the digital age
danah boyd, Its Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, New Haven, Yale University
Press, 2014.
Infrastructure/Law/Networks
Barbara Van Schewick, Internet Architecture and Innovation, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010

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Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and
Freedom, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006 and online
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page
Larry Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2, New York: Basic Books, 2006,
and online
http://www.codev2.cc/download+remix/Lessig-Codev2.pdf
Brett Frischmann, Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources, Oxford; Oxford
University Press, 2013
Other topics to add
Internet of things
Remote sensors
Big Data (Crawford, Crawford and Boyd)
Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain and Bitcoin

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