Arentt, Nick. "The Net and the Anti-Net" Chicago: WWW3 Conference
Proceedings. 1994. I've used Nick's conference talk/paper since I started
teaching Internet classes. He does a great job of making a case for
both
an educational/research network and a commerical one.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pjones/jomc191-97/Antinet.html
Arthur, Brian. Increasing returns and path dependence in the economy.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1994.
The book that changed the thinking on monopoly and anti-trust. Subject of
New Yorker article, Jan 12, 1998, on the Department of Justice's new
economic theories for protecting competition.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/ANP-6569
Hear Arthur speak and answer questions at the Ralph Nadar
"Appraising Microsoft" Conference.
Auletta, Ken. "Annals of Communications: The Microsoft Provocator."
The
New Yorker. May 12, 1997. Vol. LXXIII. No. 11. Pages 66
- 77. Whilst
obviously a planned personality piece managed by the Micro$oft PR folks,
Auletta is an important writer and Myrvold is an important player at
M$.
Some good insight into M$'s vision and visionary.
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reporduction"
in Illuminations. Translation by Harry Zohn. Editted and introduction
by
Hannah Arendt. New York: Schocken Books. 1968. Needs a follow-up
called
"The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction" but still
thoughtful and applicable as ever (which says I disagree with Bejamin
plenty).
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AAI-8622
Boyle, James. Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction
of
the Information Society. Harvard: 1996. Best on the theory
of Information
Law and Intellectual Property. Too much for undergrads, but fine I
think
for grads. Booyle never stops thinking and writing--expect more good
work
from him. http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AOX-0398
Branscomb, Anne W. Who owns information?: from privacy to public
access.
New York, NY : Basic Books, c1994. As I write this I have just learned
tha
Anne has died of cancer. She was a wonderful woman and a very clear
thinker and writer. In the notice I just read an update of this valuable
book promised based on her final notes. I am much stronger for annonymity
than she, but she has always been wiser in the long run when we argued.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/ANE-9482
Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think" The Atlantic Monthly. July
1945. He
invented it all including the National Science Foundation and MIT (as
we now know it).
Several good versions on the net including at www.theatlantic.com
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm
Coyle, Karen. Coyle's Information Highway Handbook: A Practical File
on
the New Information Order. Chicago: American Library Association
Press,
1997. New to me, but looks very useful so far. She has an intro to
an
important issue then a net-obtainable resource on the subject. I think
I
could have done the same with a few WWW pages myself tho.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AVQ-822
Dempsey, Bert and Jones, Paul editors. Internet Issues and Advanced
Applications 1997-98. Baltimore: Scarecrow Press, 1997. The
truth and
nothing but the truth. A must buy and must read ;->
Diffie, Whitfield and Landau, Susan. Privacy on the line : the politics of wiretapping and encryption. Cambridge : MIT Press, 1998.
Whitfield Diffie invented encryption as we now know it with the public key algorithum.
Here he starts from a fine explanation of privacy and encryption and moves on
to informed and thoughtful policy proposals.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/*DIFFIE/1828c3001000/0
Dyson, Esther. Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age.
New York: Broadway Books, 1997. Dyson, an experienced net.watcher
and net.activist, touches on most of the major areas of development
in
Internet policy and issues--albeit a bit lightly in many cases. Dyson
is a
dedicated Libertarian which should make for complicated thinking when
viewing a network that is almost entirely the result of federal government
research expenditures--but she conveniently forgets that part of the
Net.
Edmundson, Mark and Shorris, Earl. "On the Uses of a Liberal Education"
Harper's Magazine. September, 1997. Pp 39. ME writes "As Lite
Entertainment for Bored College Students" and pretty much touches on
things we have all felt--the more priviledged the students the more
we've
been in similar situations. SE writes "As a Weapon in the Hands of
the
Restless Poor" Perhaps they should switch jobs for a semester or two.
A
must read (no joke).
Fisher, David E. and Fisher, M. J. Tube : the invention of television.
Washington: Counterpoint, 1996. Sloan Technology Series. Most applicable
book in the very good Sloan Series. The saga on inventors and businesses
in creating television is very instructive for folks looking at Net
development.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AUV-7533
Gilder, George. Telecosm. forthcoming in 1997 by Simon &
Schuster, but in
Forbes ASAP and on-line at: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~gaj1/ggindex.html
Extreme pro-business liberterian take on technology with some insight
and
always good for inciting discussion. Intelligent interviews and reports
from the front--in their own way.
Goldstein, Paul. Copyright's Highway: The Law ans Lore of Copyright
from
Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox. New York: Hill and Wang,
1994. Master
of copyright law (from a propertist prespective) explains the history
and direction
of copyright law clearly, but unfortunately in a way that leads to
pay-per-view
without the benefit of "fair use." See Boyle for the other side of
the story.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/ANX-1879
Hafner, Katie and Matthew Lyon. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins
of
the Internet. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1996. Dwelling on
the major
ARPA contractor, but that's a good place to dwell. Many visionaries
noted
and described; many myths corrected. Readable.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/ATV-9063
Also Cyberpunk : outlaws and hackers on the computer frontier
/ Katie
Hafner and John Markoff. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1991.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AFK-2482
Jacobs, Jane. Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations
of
Commerce and Politics New York: Random House. 1992. One of my
favorites
about conflicting cultures, but not for everyone. Modeled on the
Symposium.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AFP-4564
Jones, Paul. "Poetry and Technology." Educom Review. Jan/Feb
98.
A spirited discussion with poet Betty Adcock.
_________. "Whither Humanities and Advanced Technologies." Educom
Review. Jan/Feb 1997. For your amusement.
_________. "Java and Libraries." D-Lib Magazine. March 1997.
http://www.dlib.org/
_________. Stump the Geeks Weekly newspaper column archive.
Lessig, Lawrence. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace New York: Basic Books, 1999.
The book on policy so far. All others pale beside this clearly argued, smartly referenced, deeply thought book. Not yet in our library, but at Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/046503912X/o/qid=947106403/sr=8-1/102-6969219-0112013
Logan, Robert. The Fifth Language: Learning a Living in the Computer
Age.
Toronto: Stoddart, 1995. He started out writing on the Alphabet
Effect and
turned his attention to learning and to computers. A good book for
anyone
thinking about learning and teaching in the computer age.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AUQ-9030
Marvin, Carolyn. When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric
Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford
University
Press. 1988. Like TUBE, this book, which has much more of a cultural
studies base, is helpful in understanding massive technological changes.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AEO-3033
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
with new
introduction by Lewis Lapham Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1994. (original
1964). He's baaack and more relevant than even the first time round.
Lapham's introduction is a great added attraction.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AAI-1824
Mitchell, Joan L. Pennebaker, W. B. Fogg, Chad E. and LeGall, Didier
J.
editors. MPEG Video Compression Standard. New York: Chapman
& Hall, 1997.
Digital Multimedia Standards Series. Geekaziod to the max! Not for
norms
or pinks. Leave it on your desk to impress visting CS students.
Moravec, Hans. Robot, Being: mere machine to transcendent mind.
Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1998. "The book is a sequel, update and
better-illustrated expansion of last decade's Mind Children."
By the
director of the CMU Mobile Robot Laboratory, birthplace of mobile robots
deriving 3D spatial awareness from cameras, sonar, and other sensors.
see:
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book97/book97.index.html
Also Mind children : the future of robot and human intelligence
/ Hans
Moravec. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AEX-5313
Neilsen, Jakob. Alertbox!. His columns and papers are online
at:
http://www.useit.com/ Especially
good on User Interface and Writing on the
WWW. His October 1, 1997 paper on reading and writing on the WWW is
very
good and the study on which it relies is also online at the same site.
Jakob is one of the heaviest (and most controversial) writers on WWW
and
user interface; his top ten WWW design mistakes are not to be missed--or
argued with.
Neuman, W. Russell. The Future of Mass Audience. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1990. When McLuhan speculates, Neuman has charts.
Where
McLuhan is poetic, Neuman is emperical. I love this book.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AFK-9239
Oppenheimer, Todd. "The Computer Delusion" The Atlantic Monthly.
July,
1997. Pp 45. "Schools around the country are dropping traditional subjects
to lavish scarce time and money on computers and computer education--with
results that may be at best negligible and at worse harmful." The key
word
here is "may" Lots of talk and stories, but not much to show in the
ways
of studies. Still provocative.
Picard, Rosalind W. Affective computing. Cambridge : MIT Press, 1997.
Can and should human/emotional/emmotive elements be added to computer interfaces
or would be just be looking at a rationale for the helpful paperclip in Word
or its forebearer, Microsoft Bob?
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/*PICARD/4583f1005100/0
Pinker, Steven. How the Mind Works. New York : Norton, c1997.
This modestly titled book serves as strong argument for/explaination of
Darwinian evolutionary psychology. Pinker is noted for his work on language
particularly for his best selling Language Instinct
New York : William Morrow and Co., c1994. A disciple of Choamsky with a mind
of his own, Pinker is a clear writer although in his anti-Marxist zeal, he
missed that Das Capital is dedicated to Darwin.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AVS-3555
Pool, Ithiel de Sola. Forecasting the Telephone: a retrospective
technology assessment. Norwood, N.J. : ABLEX Pub., 1983.
Invaluable and
brief review of claims for (or again) social impact of the telephone.
Pool
is one of the greats. I'm looking forward to finally reading his Talking
back: citizen feedback and cable technology [Cambridge, MIT Press,
1973]
and The out-of-classroom audience of WGBH; a study of motivation
in
viewing [Cambridge, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1963] in the context of distance education and
community building.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/ADJ-2557
Pool, Robert. Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology.
Oxford:
Oxford U. Press, 1997. Another Sloan Book and again very good. This
one
focuses mainly but not entirely on the nuclear industry while managing
to
touch on electricity, bovine growth harmones, computers, etc etc.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AVH-7376
Postman, Neil. Technopoly : the surrender of culture to technology
/ Neil
Postman. New York : Knopf, 1992. Cassandra.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AFN-3951
Rawlins, Gregory. Moths to the Flame: Seductions of Computer Technology.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Also on-line in a beautiful version
at:
http://www.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/rawlins/moths/
More balanced than
the title would lead you to believe. Rawlins is a wonderful explainer
and
a natural (in a great sense) writer, funny and clear. Written so his
father in Trinidad can understand what Rawlins, A CS professor at Indiana,
does for a living.
____________. Slaves to the Machine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
While
explaining how computers were developed, how they work and how they
fail
to do the job for us that they should do, Rawlins devises a tract in
support of his own research in AI. Worth a read and very readable and
not
too long.
Reingold, Howard. Virtual Community. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley
Pub.
Co., c1993. or in paper from New York: Harper Collins, . or on the
net at:
http://www.well.com/user/hlr/vcbook/
on hte WELL itself. His
study/story/hyperbole of the community of/at/in the WELL (Whole Earth
'Lectonic Link). Inspiring, but aging.
Riordan, Michael. Crystal fire : the birth of the information
age /
Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson. New York : Norton, c1997.
What was
behind the development of the transistor, semiconductors, and integrated
circuits particularly the personalities (Shockley and Moore for two),
finances (the creation of Silicon Valley) that lead us to Intel.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AVQ-4990
Tomita, Tetsuro. "The New Electronic Media and Their Place in the
Information Market of the Future," in Anthony Smith, ed. Newspapers
and
Democracy: International Essays on a Changing Medium, pp 49-62.
Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press. 1980. Best seen first as a reference in Neuman.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/ACS-3024
Turkle, Sherry. Life on the screen : identity in the age of the Internet
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995. A post-Freudian psychologist who has worked
with MIT's Media Lab for several years, Turkle is a major observer/writer on
how virtual lives/identities are formed and animated in the cyberworld.
What happens when she meets a character named "Dr Sherry" in a MOO? Is Dr.
Sherry
one person, several people or a 'bot?
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AOV-5431
Young, Robert and Goldman Rohm, Wendy. Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business and Took Microsoft By Surprise Scottsdale, AZ : Coriolis, 1999.
Bob founded Red Hat with Marc Ewing. This is his story. "All royalties earned [from sales of this book] are being donated to the Free Software Foundation to further their important work."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1576105067/o/qid=947108552/sr=8-1/102-6969219-0112013
Zachary, G. Pascal. Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the
American Century. New York: The Free Press, 1997. Best biography of
Vannevar "As We May Think" Bush describing the man and his times and how
those times changed out from under him. Good insights to be had here.
http://unclib.lib.unc.edu:5555/MARION/AVV-0056