Readings

If you’re curious about the readings that are filling my mind, here is a list of curated work from Kate Milberry‘s Using & Managing Communication Networks class. It’s a good mix of theory, application, politics, pop culture, and more.

Books

• Understanding Social Networks: Theories, Concepts, and Findings by Charles Kadushin
• Neuromancer by William Gibson

Journal Articles or Excerpts

• Feenberg, Andrew. (1998). Escaping the Iron Cage, or, Subversive Rationalization and Democratic Theory. In R. Schomberg, ed., Democratising Technology: Ethics, Risk, and Public Debate. Tilburg: International Centre for Human and Public Affairs.
• Latour, Bruno. (2005) Introduction. Reassembling the social. (20 pages)
• Latour, Bruno. 1987. Science in Action: How to follow scientists and engineers through society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
• Abbate, Janet. (1999). Cold war and white heat: The origins and meanings of packet switching. In D. MackKenzie and J. Wajcman (Eds.) Social Shaping of Technology. Buckingham: Open University Press.
• Ceruzzi, Paul. (2008). The Internet before commercialization. In William Aspary and Paul Ceruzzi (Eds.) The Internet and American Business. Cambridge: The MIT Press. (30 pages)
• Benkler, Yochai. (2006). Social Ties: Networking Together (Ch. 10). The Wealth of Networks. New Have & London: Yale University Press. (21 pages).
• Benkler, Yochai. (2006). Peer production & Sharing (Chapter 3). The Wealth of Networks. (31 pages)
• Wellman, Barry et al. (2003). The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 8(3).
• Castells, Manuel. (2000).  The rise of the network society. Conclusion. Oxford; Malden, MA: Blackwell. (8 pages)
• Sassen, Saskia. (2006). Electronic networks, power and democracy. Tailoring Biotechnologies, 2(2), pp: 21-48. (20 pages)

Other Articles

• Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees in New York Times
• Interview with the Web’s creator in Wired
• MacManus, Richard. 2009. Understanding the New Web Era: Web 3.0, Linked Data, Semantic Web
• Berners-Lee, Tim, R. Cailliau, N. Pellow and A. Secret. The World-Wide Web Initiative
• Dyer-Witherford, Nick. (1999). Intellects. Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism.
• Kahn, Robert E. & Winton G. Cerf. 1999. What is the Internet (and what makes it work)?
• Levy, Steven. (1984). Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984.
• New study of hunter-gatherers suggests social networks sparked evolution of cooperation
• Shirky, Clay. (2003). Social software and the politics of groups.
• Phelan, Benjamin. (2009). The Hive Mind. Seed Magazine.
• Shirky, Clay. Collective Action & Institutional Challenges. Here Comes Everybody.
• Hampton, Keith N. 2011. Comparing bonding and bridging ties for democratic engagement. Information, Communication & Society(14)4, 510-528. (14 pages)
• Saveri, A., Rheingold, H., & Vian, K., (2005). Technologies of Cooperation. Palo Alto CA: Insti­tute for the Future.
• Diaspora
• Crabgrass
• Webb, Maureen. (2006). Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World.
• Dyer-Witheford, Nick. (1999). Cybermarx.
• Arquilla, John & Ronfeldt, David. (2001). Networks and netwars: The future of terror, crime and militancy. RAND. (21 pages)
• Chase, Steven. (2011). From YouTube to Twitter, Ottawa heard it all during the G20. The Globe & Mail.
• Winseck, Dwayne. (2011). (Un)lawful Access: Wiring the Network for Control: http://dwmw.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/unlawful-access-wiring-canadas-networks-for-control/
• Girls Around Me
• Deibert, Ronald J., John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain. (Eds.). 2010. Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights and Rule in Cyberspace. Cambridge: MIT Press
• Deibert, Ron et al. (2009). Tracking Ghostnet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network. Information Warfare Monitor.
• Schneier: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/wiretapping_the.htmlThe advent of netwar (revisted)
• Singel, R. (2010) .Feds’ Requests for Google Data Rise 20 Percent. Wired.
• EFF: Social network surveillance: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10407224-83.html
• Cleaver, Harry. (1997). The Zapatista effect: The rise of an alternative political fabric
• Juris, Jeffrey. Networked Social Movements: Global Movements for Global Justice, in M. Castells (ed.) The Network Society: a Cross-Cultural Perspective, 341-362. (16 pages)
• Starr, Amory, Fernandez, Luiz &School, Christian. (2011). What is going on? In Shutting down the streets: Political violence and social control in the global era. New York: New York University Press.
• Dorothy Kidd. 2003. The IMC: A new model (short)
• Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview (7 pages)
• Singel, Ryan. (2011) Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard. Wired.
• Don’t Hate the Media: Be the Media
• Indymedia
• Wikileaks
• Coleman, E. Gabriella. (2011). From the Lulz to Collective Action 
• Gladwell, Malcolm: Small change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted. The New Yorker
• Miekle, 2002. Hack attacks and electronic civil disobedience. In Future active: Media activism and the Internet. New York: Routledge
• Morozov: Facebook and Twitter are just places revolutionaries go
• The Rise of the Occupy Insurgency, The World’s First Internet Revolution #OWS 
• Klein, Naomi. (2011). Occupy Wall Street: This is the most important thing in the world right Now. The Nation.
• Zizek, Slavoj. (2011). Occupy first. Demands Come Later. The Guardian.
• Google Transparency Report
• Psiphon
• Tor
• Herdict
• Jacob Appelbaum & Roger Dingledine: How governments have tried to block Tor

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