School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

INLS 105, Information Ethics
Fall 2003

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Alfino, M., & Pierce, L. (1997). Information Ethics for Librarians. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. [SILS - Z682.35 .P75 A44 1997]

Beniger, J. R. (1986). The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [Davis, UL - HM258 .B459 1986]

Bettig, R. B. (1996). Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property. Boulder, CO: Westview. [Davis, Law - K1420.5 .B48 1996]

Bok, S. (1983). Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation. New York: Pantheon Books. [Davis, UL - BJ1429.5 .B64 1983]

Boyle, J. (1996). Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [Davis, UL - K1401 .B69 1996]

Branscomb, A. W. (1994). Who Owns Information?: From Privacy to Public Access. New York: Basic Books. [Davis - KF2979 .B67 1994]

Brin, David. (1998). The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. [Davis - JC598 .B75 1998]

Burnham, D. (1983). The Rise of the Computer State: The Threat to Our Freedoms, Our Ethics, and Our Democratic Process. New York: Random House. [Davis, UL - JC596.2 .U5 B87 1983]

Cassell, J., & Jenkins, H. (Eds.). (1998). From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis, UL - GV1469.17 .S63 F76 1998]

Coyne, R. (1995). Designing Information Technology in the Information Age: From Method to Metaphor. Cambridge, MIT Press. [Davis - T58.5 .C69 1995]

Fink, J. (1999). Cyberseduction: Reality in the Age of Psychotechnology. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. [SILS - QA76.9 .P75 F53 1999]

Gauntlett, A. (1999). Net Spies: Who's Watching You on the Web? London: Vision Paperbacks. [SILS - TK5105.59 .G38 1999b]

Gibson, William. (1984). Neuromancer. New York: Ace Books. [UL - PS3557 .I2264 N4 1986]

Grossman, L. K. (1995). The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age. New York: Viking. [Davis - JK1764 .G76 1995]

Halbert, D. J. (1999). Intellectual Property in the Information Age: The Politics of Expanding Ownership Rights. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. [SILS, Law - KF2979 .H35 1999]

Hamelink, C. J. (2000). The Ethics of Cyberspace. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [Davis - QA76.9 .C66 H35413 2000]

Heins, M. (2001). Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth. New York: Hill & Wang. [SILS, Davis - Z658 .U5 H42 2001]

Inness, Julie C. (1992). Privacy, Intimacy, and Isolation. New York: Oxford University Press. [Davis - BF575 .P93 I56 1992]

Levy, S. (1984). Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. [Davis, UL, SILS - QA76.6 .L469 1984]

Macneil, H. (1992). Without Consent: The Ethics of Disclosing Personal Information in Public Archives. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, for the Society of American Archivists. [SILS - CD986.5 .M33 1992]

McSherry, C. (2001). Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [Davis - KF2979 .M37 2001]

Moore, A. D. (2001). Intellectual Property & Information Control: Philosophic Foundations and Contemporary Issues. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. [SILS, Davis - KF2979 .M66 2001]

Moore, D. W. (1995). The Emperor's Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth about Internet Culture. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Press. [UL - HE7568 .M66 1995]

Miller, S. E. (1996). Civilizing Cyberspace: Policy, Power, and the Information Superhighway. New York: ACM Press; Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. [SILS, UL - HE7572 .U6 M55 1996]

Molz, R. K., & Dain, P. (1999). Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [SILS - Z731 .M639 1999]

Mungo, P. (1992). Approaching Zero: The Extraordinary Underworld of Hackers, Phreakers, Virus Writers, and Keyboard Criminals. New York: Random House. [Davis - HV6773 .M86 1992]

Perelman, M. (2002). Steal this Idea: Intellectual Property and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity. New York: Palgrave. [SILS, Davis - KF2979 .P47 2002]

Peters, T. A. (1999). Computerized Monitoring and Online Privacy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. [SILS, Davis - JC596.2 .U5 P45 1999]

Reeves, B., & Nass, C. (1996). The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television and New Media Like Real Pople, and Places. Stanford, CA: Cambridge University Press. [Davis - P96.A83 R44 1996]

Rheingold, H. (1993). The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. [Davis - TK5105.5 .R48 1993]

Rothfeder, J. (1992). Privacy for Sale: How Computerization Has Made Everyone's Life an Open Secret. New York: Simon & Schuster. [Davis, UL - HG3751.7 .R68 1992]

Scott, G. G. (1995). Mind Your Own Business: The Battle for Personal Privacy. New York: Insight Books. [Davis - JC596 .S38 1995]

Stoll, C. (1995). Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts about the Information Highway. New York: Doubleday. [Davis, SILS, Law - QA76.9 .C66 S88 1995]

Stone, A. R. (1995). The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis - QA76.9 .C66 S883 1995]

Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. 2nd ed. New York: Simon & Schuster. [Davis - QA76.9 .C66 T87 1995]


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