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This page identifies an initial one hundred books for understanding the net and life in the digital environment.

It covers -

• infrastructure – where did the net come from and how does it operate?
• populations - who is online and what do they do?
• regulation – how is the net regulated and what are some tensions in that regulation?

     infrastructure

Where did the net come from and how does it operate?

• Christine Borgman - From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access To Information in the Networked World (Cambridge: MIT Press 2000)
• Janet Abbate - Inventing the Internet (Cambridge: MIT Press 1999)
• Eli Noam - Interconnecting The Network of Networks (Cambridge: MIT Press 2001)
• Tim Berners-Lee - Weaving The Web (London: Orion 1999)
• Debora Spar - Ruling the Waves (New York: Harcourt 2001), complemented by Michael Adas' Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America’s Civilizing Mission (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 2006)
• Milton Mueller - Ruling the Root (Cambridge: MIT Press 2002)
• Heather Hudson - Global Connections: International Telecommunications Infrastructure & Policy (New York: Wiley 1997)
• Carolyn Marvin - When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communications in the Late 19th Century (New York: Oxford Uni Press 1990)
• James Beninger - Control Revolution: Technological & Economic Origins of the Information Society (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 1989)
• Peter Hall & Paschal Preston - The Carrier Wave: New Information Technology & the Geography of Innovation, 1846-2003 (London: Unwin Hyman 1988)
• Edward Comer [ed] - The Global Political Economy of Communication: Hegemony, Telecommunications & the Information Economy (New York: St Martin's Press 1994)
• Frank Webster - Theories of the Information Society (London: Routledge 1995)
• Brian Winston - Media Technology & Society: A History from the Telegraph to the Internet (London: Routledge 1999)
• Matthew Zook - The Geography of the Internet Industry (Oxford: Blackwell 2005)
• Martin Libicki & David Frelinger - Scaffolding the New Web: Standards & Standards Policy for the Digital Economy (Santa Monica: RAND 2000)

     populations

Who is online, what do they do and does it matter?

• Howard Rheingold - The Virtual Community (Minerva: London 1994)
• Frances Cairncross - The Death of Distance (London: Orion 1997)
• Marc Smith & Peter Kollock [ed] - Communities In Cyberspace (London: Routledge 1999)
• Nancy Baym - Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom & Online Community (London: Sage 2000)
• Cass Sunstein - Republic.com (Albany: State Uni of New York Press 2001)
• Geert Lovink - Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture (Cambridge: MIT Press 2002)
• Manuel Castell - The Information Society (Oxford: Blackwell 1999)
• William Wresch - Disconnected: Haves & Have-Nots in the Information Age (New Brunswick: Rutgers Uni Press 1998)
• Pippa Norris - The Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty & the Internet Worldwide (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 2001)

     regulation –

How is the net regulated and what are some tensions in that regulation?

• Jack Goldsmith & Tim Wu - Who Controls The Internet? - Illusions Of A Borderless World (New York: Oxford Uni Press 2006)
• Stuart Biegel - Beyond Our Control? Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace (Cambridge: MIT Press 2001)
• Ithiel de Sola Pool - Technologies of Freedom: Of Free Speech In An Electronic Age (Cambridge: Belknap 1987)
• Peter Huber - Law & Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm (New York: Oxford Uni Press 1997)
• Brian Kahin [ed] - Borders In Cyberspace (Cambridge: MIT Press 1997)
• Paulina Borsook - Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech (New York: PublicAffairs 1999)
• Howard Segal - Technological Utopianism in American Culture (Chicago: Uni of Chicago Press 1985)
• Simson Garfinkel - Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (O'Reilly: Sebastopol 2000)
• Ellen Paul & Fred Miller [ed] - The Right to Privacy (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 2000)
• Colin Bennett [ed] - Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital Age (Toronto: Uni of Toronto Press 1999)
• Wendy Grossman - Net.Wars (New York: New York Uni Press 1997)
• Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (Cambridge: MIT Press 2007) by Tarleton Gillespie

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