Recently I had a colleague contact me asking for a bibliography of recent influential texts that he could include in a three credit introductory course in technology for language students. Mike said that he was looking primarily for items that approached technology from a theoretical or philosophical perspective.
I went though my RefWorks bibliography of about 1366 references for courses that I’ve taught in Adult Education, Technology Planning and Emerging Technology, and came up the following list as a starting place. Since I happen to have the New Media Reader sitting on my desk, I strongly suggested that he start there.
Any ideas of others that have shaped your thinking would be appreciated.
References
Anderson, C. (2006). The long tail: Why the future of business is selling less of more Hyperion.
Baase, S. (2008). A gift of fire: Social, legal, and ethical issues for computing and the internet (3rd edition) (3rd ed.) Prentice Hall.
Brown, J. S., & Duguid, P. (2000). The social life of information. Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press.
Dertouzos, M. L. (2001). The unfinished revolution : Human-centered computers and what they can do for us. New York: HarperCollins.
Duderstadt, J. J., Atkins, D. E., & Van Houweling, D. E. (2002). Higher education in the digital age : Technology issues and strategies for American colleges and universities. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
Friedman, T. L. (2007). The world is flat 3.0: A brief history of the twenty-first century Picador.
Hafner, K. (1998). Where wizards stay up late: The origins of the internet Simon & Schuster.
Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide NYU Press.
Lessig, L. (2005). Free culture: The nature and future of creativity Penguin (Non-Classics).
Lessig, L. (2006). Code: Version 2.0 Basic Books.
Montfort, N., & Wardrip-Fruin, N. (2003). The new media reader. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press.
Negroponte, N. (1996). Being digital (New Ed ed. ) Coronet Books.
Shenk, D. (1998). Data smog: Surviving the information glut revised and updated edition (Rev Upd ed.) HarperOne.
Shneiderman, B. (2002). Leonardo’s laptop : Human needs and the new computing technologies. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Talbott, S. (2007). Devices of the soul: Battling for our selves in an age of machines O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Vaidhyanathan, S. (2005). The anarchist in the library: How the clash between freedom and control is hacking the real world and crashing the system (New Ed ed.) Basic Books.
Weinberger, D. (2007). Everything is miscellaneous : The power of the new digital disorder (1st ed.). New York: Times Books.
Wright, A. (2007). Glut: Mastering information through the ages Joseph Henry Press.
