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

INLS 584, Information Ethics
Fall 2013

Possible Books for Book Reviews

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Abelson, H., Ledeen, K., & Lewis, H. (2008). Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley. [Davis - QA76.9.C66 A245 2008]

Allen, A. (2003). Why Privacy Isn't Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. [Davis - HM676 .A45 2003]

Aufderheide, P., & Jaszi, P. (2011). Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Law - KF3020 .A984 2011; Electronic copy also available in UNC libraries]

Baase, S. (2003). A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. [SILS, Davis - QA76.9.C66 B3 2003]

Beckett, C. (2012). Wikileaks: News in the Networked Era. Cambridge: Polity Press. [Davis Library - PN4729.3 .B43 2012]

Bennett, C.J. (2008). The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis, Undergrad - JC596 .B46 2008]

Berry, D.M. (2008). Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source. London: Pluto Press, 2008. [SILS - QA76.76 .S46 B47 2008]

Boyle, J. (2009). The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. [Davis, Law - K1401 .B689 2008]

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

Bugeja, M. (2005). Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age. Oxford University Press. [Davis - HM846 .B84 2005]

Castells, M. (2009). Communication Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Davis - HM1206 .C376 2009]

Chesterman, S. (2011). One Nation Under Surveillance: A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty. Oxford University Press. [Davis - JK468.I6 C44 2011]

Cortada, J. W. (2009). How Societies Embrace Information Technology: Lessons for Management and the Rest of Us. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons; Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. [SILS Library - HM851 .C675 2009]

Demmers, J. (2006). Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity. Athens: University of Georgia Press. [Music, Law - KF3035 .D46 2006]

Dempsey, J. X., & Cole, D. (2002). Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security. Washington, DC: First Amendment Foundation. [Law - KF4558 .D45 2002]

Dibbell, J. (1998). My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. New York: Holt. [Davis - HV6773.2 .D53 1998]

Dowding, M.R. (2011). Privacy: Defending an Illusion. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. [Davis - JC596 .D69 2011]

Earl, J., & Kimport, K. (2011). Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age. [Davis - HM851 .E23 2011]

Eubanks, V. (2011). Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis, Undergrad - HM846 .E93 2011]

Foerstel, H. N. (2004). Refuge of a Scoundrel: The PATRIOT Act in Libraries. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. [SILS, Davis - KF4315 .F64 2004]

Gates, K. (2011). Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance. New York: New York University Press. [Science Library Annex - TK7882.B56 G38 2011]

Gershon, I. (2010). The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. [Davis, Undergrad - HM851 .G4723 2010]

Gillespie, T. (2007). Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press [SILS, Davis - K1447.15 .G55 2007]

Godwin, M. (2003). Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis, Undergrad, Law - KF4772 .G63 1998]

Gurstein, P. (2001). Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life. Vancouver: UBC Press. [Davis - HD2336.3 .G87 2001]

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

Harper, T. (2011). Democracy in the Age of New Media: The Politics of the Spectacle. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. [Davis - P95.8 .H37 2011]

Hauptman, R. (2011). Authorial Ethics: How Writers Abuse Their Calling. Lexington Books. [Davis - P302.18 .H38 2011]

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]

Hyde, L. (2010). Common as Air: Revolution, Arti, and Ownership. Farrar, STraus and Giroux. [SILS Library, Undergrad Library - ZA3270 .H93 2010]

Katz, J. E., & Rice, R. E. (2004). Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and Interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [SILS, Davis - HM851 .K38 2002]

Kernfeld, B. (2011). Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution Since 1929. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Music - ML3790 .K448 2011]

Knuth, R. (2003). Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries During the Twentieth Century. Westport, CT: Prager. [Davis - Z659 .K58 2003]

Landau, S. (2010). Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [SILS - TK5102.85 .L36 2010]

Lange, D.L., & Powell, H.J. (2009). No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment. Stanford, CA: Stanford Law Books. [Davis, Law Library - KF2979 .L37 2009]

Levin, B. (2003). The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney's War against the Counterculture. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. [SILS - KF3080 .L48 2003]

Locke, J.L. (2010). Eavesdropping: An Intimate History. Oxford University Press. [Davis - P40 .L63 2010]

McLeod, K. (2005). Freedom of Expression®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity. New York: Doubleday. [SILS, Davis- KF2979 .M348 2005]

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

McWilliams, B. (2005). S*pam_Kings: The Real Story Behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing PORN, PILLS, and @*#?% Enlargements. O'Reilly and Associates. [Davis - HE7551 .M38 2005]

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

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]

Mossberger, K., Tolbert, C.J., & McNeal, R.S. (2008). Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis - HM851 .M668 2008]

Nissenbaum, H. (2010). Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. Stanford, CA: Stanford Law Books. [SILS, Law, Undergrad - JC596.2 .U5 N57 2010]

Norris, P. (2001). Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge University Press. [Davis - HN49.I56 N67 2001]

O'Harrow, R., Jr. (2005). No Place to Hide. New York: Free Press. [Davis, Law - HM851 .O4 2005]

Papacharissi, Z. (2010). A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age. Malden, Ma: Polity. [Davis - HM851 .P37 2010]

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

Postigo, H. (2012). Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis - K1447.95 .P67 2012]

Rushkoff, D. (2002). Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace. Manchester: Clinamen Press. [Davis - HQ2044 .U62 S47 2002]

Schneier, B. (2000). Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. Wiley. [SILS, M/P - QA76.9 .A25 S352 2000]

Shade, L. R. (2002). Gender and Community in the Social Construction of the Internet. New York: Peter Lang. [Davis - HQ1178 .S52 2002]

Shaviro, S. (2003). Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Davis - HM851 .S534 2003]

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]

Trottier, D. (2012). Social Media as Surveillance: Rethinking Visibility in a Converging World. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. [Davis - HM742 .T76 2012]

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]

Warschauer, M. (2003). Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis - HN49.I56 W37 2003]

Wilinsky, J. (2006). The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis - Z286 .O63 W55 2006]


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