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This page identifies a further hundred books for understanding the net and life in the digital environment.

It covers -

• dollars and sense – the nature of the 'new economy' and the 'dot com experience'
• old wine in new bottles? – media, intellectual property and the digital consumer
• identity and evaluation – finding and making sense of what is online
• cyberstudies.

     dollars and sense

The nature of the 'new economy' and the 'dot com experience'

• Hal Varian & Carl Shapiro - Information Rules (Boston: Harvard Business School Press 1999)
• John Braithwaite & Peter Drahos - Global Business Regulation (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 2000)
• Dan Schiller - Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System (Cambridge: MIT Press 2000)
• John Cassidy - dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold (New York: HarperCollins 2002)
• Bruce Abramson - Digital phoenix: why the information economy collapsed and how it will rise again (Cambridge: MIT Press 2006)
• John Seely Brown & Paul Duguid - The Social Life of Information (Boston: Harvard Business School Press 2000)
• Michael Wolff - BurnRate (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999)
• Robert Shiller - Irrational Exuberance (Princeton: Princeton Uni Press 2000)
• Erik Brynjolfsson & Brian Kahin [ed] - Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools & Research (Cambridge: MIT Press 2000)
• Ingo Vogelsang [ed] - The Internet Upheaval (Cambridge: MIT Press 2001)
• Kevin Kelly - New Rules For The New Economy (New York: Viking 1998), The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives (New York: Basic Books 2008) by Michael Heller and Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (New York: The Penguin Press 2008)
• George Gilder - Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionise Our World (New York: Free Press 2000) and the even more romantic The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism (New York: Free Press 2008) by Matt Mason
• Paul Strassmann - The Squandered Computer - Evaluating the Business Alignment of Information Technologies (New Canaan, Information Economics Press 1997)
• Michael Lewis - The New New Thing (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1999)
• Paul May - The Business of Ecommerce (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 2000)
• Anthony Perkins & Michael Perkins - The Internet Bubble (New York: HarperCollins 1999)
• Canter & Siegel - How to Make a Fortune on the Information Superhighway (New York: HarperCollins 1995)

     old wine in new bottles?

Media, intellectual property and the digital consumer

• Paul Goldstein - International Copyright: Principles, Law & Practice (New York: Oxford Uni Press 2001)
• Ronald Bettig - Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property (Boulder: Westview 1996)
• Peter Drahos - A Philosophy of Intellectual Property (Aldershot: Dartmouth 1996)
• Lawrence Lessig - Code & Other Laws of Cyberspace (New York: Basic Books 1999)
• Brian Kahin & Hal Varian [ed] - Internet Publishing & Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information & Intellectual Property (Cambridge: MIT Press 2000) edited by Brian Kahin & Hal Varian
• Esther Dyson - Being Digital (New York: Knopf 1995)
• Russell Neuman - The Future of the Mass Audience (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 1996)
• Joseph Turow - Breaking Up America: Advertisers & the New Media World (Chicago: Chicago Uni Press 1997). It is usefully read in conjunction with Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 2007) by Markus Prior, Republic.com (Albany: State Uni of NY Press 2001) by Cass Sunstein and E.Con: How The Internet Undermines Democracy (Toronto: Stoddart 1999) by Donald Gutstein
• Jonathan Wallace & Mark Mangan - Sex, Laws & Cyberspace: Freedom & Censorship on the Frontiers of the Online Revolution (New York: Owl/Holt 1997)
• Ken Auletta - Three Blind Mice: How The Television Networks Lost Their Way (New York: Random House 1991)
• Benjamin Compaine & Douglas Gomery - Competition & Concentration in the Mass Media Industry (Mahwah: Erlbaum 2000) and Media Ownership and Concentration in America (New York: Oxford Uni Press 2007) by Eli Noam
• Siva Vaidhyanathan - Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity (New York: New York Uni Press 2001) and Matt Mason - The Pirate's Dilemma (London: Allen Lane 2008) - two tracts about the virtue of appropriation
• David Bollier - Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own & Control Culture (New York: Wiley 2004)
• Birgitte Andersen, Jeremy Howells, Richard Miles & Joanne Roberts [ed] - Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2000)
• Dan Gillmor - We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People (Sebastopol: O'Reilly 2004)
• Andrew Keen - The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture (New York: Doubleday 2007) and Lee Siegel's Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob (New York: Random 2008), contrasted with Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (New York: The Penguin Press 2008)

     identity and evaluation

Finding and making sense of what is online.

• Chun Wei Choo, Brian Detlor & Don Turnbull - Web Work: Information Seeking & Knowledge Work on the World Wide Web (New York: Kluwer 2000)
• Bernardo Huberman - The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information (Cambridge: MIT Press 2001)
• US National Academies - Signposts in Cyberspace: the Domain Name System and Internet Navigation report (2005)
• Richard Rogers [ed] - Preferred Placement: Knowledge Politics on the Web (Maastricht: Jan van Eyck Akademie Editions 2000)
• Chris Anderson - The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More (New York: Random 2006)
• David Weingerger - Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (New York: Holt 2007)
• Torsten Bettinger [ed] - Domain Name Law & Practice: An International Handbook (Oxford: Oxford Uni Press 2005) and David Lindsay - International Domain Name Law: ICANN and the UDRP (Oxford: Hart 2007)
• Donald Norman - The Invisible Computer (Cambridge: MIT Press 1998)
• Donald Case - Looking for information: a survey of research on information seeking, needs, and behavior (Amsterdam: Academic Press 2007)

     cyberstudies

For academics and 'new media' students -

• The Cybercultures Reader (London: Routledge 2000) edited by David Bell & Barbara Kennedy
• CyberSociety 2.0: Revisiting CMC and Community (London: Sage 1998) edited by Steven Jones
• Race in Cyberspace (Routledge 2000) edited by Beth Kolko, Lisa Nakamura & Gil Rodman
• The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory (London: Routledge 2000) edited by Andrew Herman & Thomas Swiss
• Communities in Cyberspace (London: Routledge 1997) edited by Marc Smith and Peter Kollock
• Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies (London: Sage 1996) edited by Rob Shields
• Cyberspace, First Steps (Cambridge: MIT Press 1991) edited by Michael Benedikt
• Reading Digital Culture (Oxford: Blackwell 2001) edited by David Trend
• Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety (London: Sage 1997) edited by Steven Jones

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