You will write a 4 page report (850 – 1,000 words EXCLUDING citations), double-spaced, summarizing the content of a current or historical book or article related to the topics of the course. If it is a current book, project the trends forward to the next decade. If it is a historical book or article, discuss how accurate it was in predicting what has actually occurred. There are some suggestions below. Using online and printed resources from the library will help you find something of interest related to a topic of your choice. Google Scholar and other online searches may also help. Your report will be graded using the following criteria:
- Provides a succinct summary of the main thesis of the book/article with a few relevant examples (DO NOT give a blow-by-blow description of the contents);
- Provides an analysis of the relevance of the content to information policy;
- Provides concluding remarks giving your opinion of the thesis, the predictions that may have been made in the book based upon what you have learned so far in the course;
- Provides proper citation for the book and any references used (at least 3 outside references are required);
- Well-written with use of correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, word count, and appropriate level of English.
- APA Format
(IMPORTANT INFO BELOW ( CHOOSE FROM THE LIST BELOW)
Suggested Titles for Book Report – these are just examples and many are over 20 years old. There are many more
recent relevant books and articles that you can find dealing with topics related to this course.
• Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway by Clifford Stoll
• The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll
• High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian by Clifford Stoll
• War Of The Worlds: Cyberspace And The High-tech Assault On Reality by Mark Slouka
• Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign
Competition, and Still Can’t Get a Date by Robert X. Cringely
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet (Paperback)by Katie Hafner
• The Road Ahead by Bill Gates
• Nerds 2.0.1 by Stephen Segaller
• Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte
• The Trouble with Computers by Thomas K. Landauer
• The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television and New Media Like Real
People and Places by Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass
• What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives by Michael Dertouzos
• Release 2.1 by Esther Dyson
• Looking Ahead: Implications of the Present by Peter F. Drucker, Esther Dyson, Charles Handy, and Paul Saffo
• Darwin Among The Machines: The Evolution Of Global Intelligence (Helix Books) (Paperback) by George B.
Dyson
• The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain
• Up for Grabs: The Future of the Internet I by Lee Rainie, Janna Quitney Anderson, and Susannah Fox
• Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
• Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment (Ex Machina: Law, Technology, and Society) by J. M.
Balkin, Katz Eddan, James Grimmelmann, and Nimrod Kozlovski
• Identity Theft: The Cybercrime of the Millennium by John Q. Newman
• Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman by Richard M. Stallman, Lawrence Lessig,
Joshua Gay, and Laurence Lessig
• How Open Is the Future?: Economic, Social & Cultural Scenarios Inspired by Free & Open-Source Software
(Crosstalks) by Marleen Wynants and Jan Cornelis
• Software Patents: Economic Impacts And Policy Implications (New Horizons in Intellectual Property) by Knut Blind,
Jakob Edler, and Michael Friedewald
• The Economics of Intellectual Property in a World without Frontiers: A Study of Computer Software (Contributions
in Economics and Economic History) by Meheroo Jussawalla
• Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace by David Chanoff and
Ejovi Nuwere
• Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig (2005).
• Pariser, Eli 2011 The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
• George, Thomas 2004 Digital Soul: Intelligent Machines and Human Values
Recent videos you can report on:
• The Social Dilemma (Netflix), 2020
• Coded Bias (Netflix), 2020
Recent Books related to Information Policy and Social Impact:
• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google , Nicholas Carr 2013
• The Glass Cage: How Our Computers are Changing Us , Nicholas Carr 2015
• To Be a Machine, Mark O’Connell 2017
• The Fight Against Platform Capitalism, Jamie Woodcock, 2021 | 126 pgs
• Lurking: How a Person Became a User, Joanne McNeil, 2020 | 306 pgs.
• Ghost Work; How to Stop SilIcon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, Mary Gray and Dissharth Suri,
2019 | 288 pgs.
• Anti-Social: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, Andrew
Marantz, 2019 | 499 pgs.
• Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks, 019 | 287 pgs.5
• iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids are Growing up Less Rebellios, More Tolerant, Less Happy and
Completely Unprepared for Adulthood, Jean Twenge, 2018 | 352 pgs.
• Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, Adam Alter, 2018,
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of AI, Max Tegmark, 2017 | 384 pgs.
• The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism, Arun Sundararajan, 2017 |
254 pgs.
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Cathy O’Neil, 2017 |
288 pgs.
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom, 2014 | 352 pgs.
• Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World, Bruce Schneier, 2018,
• Design Justice, Sasha Costanza-Chock, 2020 | 355 pgs.
• A World without Work, Daniel Sussking, 2020 | 320 pgs.
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff, 2019 | 704 pgs.
• Value Sensitive Design, Batya Friedman, 2019 | 299 pgs.
• Cyber-War: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, 2018 |
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble, 2018
• Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy and the Dark Side of the Internet, Ronald Diebert, 2017 | 336 pgs.
• Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, Zeynep Tufekci, 2017 | 360 pgs.
• The Second Machine Age, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2016 | 336 pgs.
• The Filter Bubble, How the New Personalized Web is Changing What we Read and How We Think, Eli Pariser, 2012
| 304 pgs.
• Free Culture, Lawrence Lessig, 2004 | 323 pgs.
• The Big Nine: How Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity, Amy Webb, 2020 |
• Cloud Ethics, Louise Amoore, 2020 | 232 pgs. | $25.43 USD
• Rebooting AI: Building AI We Can Trust, Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis, 2019 |288 pgs.
• Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe, Roger McNamee, 2019 | 400 pgs.
• Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne, 2019 | 368 pgs.
• Re-engineering Humanity, Brett Frishmann and Evan Selinger, 2018 | 430pgs
• The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, Scott Galloway, 2018 | 336 pgs.
• Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy,
Jonathan Taplin, 2017 | 321 pgs.
• WTF What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us, Tim O’Reilly, 2017 | 320 pgs.
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, Brad Stone, 2014 | 416 pgs
• Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, Ken Auletta, 2010 | 432 pgs.
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