Books

[Reta Chaffee]

I'm considering teaching a course about the Internet & society: Living in a Digital Democracy (how the Internet is being used to change voting behavior, stimulate the growth of a flobal economy, and alter our sense of community.) I'm just begining to review books that might be appropriate for this course. I was wondering if any of you have any recommendations for books that might be appropriate?

Reta

[Lisa Sieverts]

Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter
Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberger

[Mark Francillon]

Lowell Feld and Nate Wilcox, Netroots Rising. 2008. Praeger. --I've only just acquired this, but it looks like it might be a possibility. Focused on the intervention of the blogging world in the official political process. Not textbook-ish at all.

Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks. 2006. Yale. A fabulous book. Challenging for readers at any level. Available under CC license at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page

[Lisa Sieverts]

http://www.e-gineer.com/v2/blog/2007/12/building-enterprise-20-on-c...
Possibly relevant, here's a sample:

Successful Enterprise 2.0 style collaboration requires both technical and cultural maturity. While technology opens immediate potential, organisations must grow towards new patterns of usage and collaboration.

The two cultural barriers to collaboration

There are dozens of reasons and millions of excuses as to why people won't share knowledge; but they all fall within two areas:

1. Sharing knowledge adds more work (“I don’t have time to share”); and
2. Sharing knowledge increases personal risk (“I don’t want to share”).

[Reta Chaffee]

Thanks for the recommendations, Lisa & Mark! Perhaps we can keep this forum going for anyone interested in giving a book review...or recommendation.

Reta

[Kevin Bell]

Late in getting to this but Wikinomics is very thought-provoking.
Don Tapscott / Anthony Williams.

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