resources
course materials
required books available at Talking Leaves, Main Street location
- Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations - Clay Shirky
- The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google - Nicholas Carr
- Remix - Lawrence Lessig (also available as PDF)
other texts:
- "Technology of Cooperation" - Howard Rheingold (pdf)
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selected chapters from The Wealth of Networks - Yochai Benkler (text available online)
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"Constituents of a Theory of the Media" - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Protocol - Alexander R Galloway (discussion of Brecht and Ensenzberger only, p 55-58)
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"The Public Sphere, an encyclopedia article" - Jurgen Habermas
audio programs
- Immanuel Wallerstein on collective production of future economic paradigm
- Jeffrey Juris on Networks and Movements
news stories
- sousveillance (and/or inverse surveillance)
- censorship / filtered internet:
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"Chinese Learn Limits of Online Freedom as the Filter Tightens" (NY Times 2/5/2009)
- Fair Use / Digital Millenium Copyright Act
- Future of Journalism / Peer-Produced News
Should Bloggers Follow A Code of Ethics? (video clip)
- terms of service / managing participation
- "Facebook Doesn't Get it: Users Want Control, Not Voting Privileges"
- Tracking / Data Mining
- Fair Use on the Web
mailing lists
- HASTAC
- iDC (Institute for Distributed Creativity)
other relevant links
extended bibliography/further reading
- Enduring Messaging: are microcommunications an art form? by Tom Sherman, 2008 c/o idc
- Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion - Abelson, Ledeen, Lewis
- Convergence Culture - Henry Jenkins
- Zero Comments - Geert Lovink
- Smart Mobs - Howard Rheingold
- The Information Bomb - Paul Virilio
- Ruling the Root - Milton L. Mueller
- Protocol - Alexander Galloway
- Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig
- The Exploit - Alexander Galloway
- Wikinomics - Tapscot and Williams
- Smart Mobs - Howard Rheingold
- Everything is Miscellaneous
- Here Comes Everybody - Clay Shirky
- Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture - Geert Lovink
- Communication Technology and Social Change - eds. Lin and Atkin
- Peer-to-Peer Video - ed.
- Digital Resistance - Critical Art Ensemble
- Anarchitexts - ed.
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Eric Raymond
- The Victorian Internet - Tom Standage
- Gamer Theory - McKenzie Wark
- Noise: The Political Economy of Music - Jacques Attali
- Privacy: A Manifesto - Sofsky
- The Information Bomb - Paul Virilio
- Multitude - Hardt and Negri
- My Name is Legion - Roger Zelazny
participatory art practice
- Participation - ed. Claire Bishop
- What We Want is Free - ed. Ted Purves
- Conversation Pieces - Grant Kester
- Relational Aesthetics - Bourriaud
data visualization
- info asethetics
- http://flowingdata.com/
- http://flare.prefuse.org/
- http://www.graphicsserver.com/com_products/GraphChoiceBubble.aspx
pie of pie, bar of pie, venn, euler
http://www.graphic.org/venbas.html