Wells College, Spring Semester, 1998
Prof. Spencer H. Hildahl
Prof. Kenneth E. Larson
* Indicates an approved book for the Book Review assignment.
Allen, Garland E. 1996. "Science Misapplied: The eugenics age revisited." Technology Review 99: 22-31.
Altman, Ellen Pratt, Allan. 1996. "Information technology-the global information society." Journal of Academic Librarianship 22: 325.
Anderson, Walter Truett. 1996. "There's no going back to nature." Mother Jones 21: 34-37.
Bailey, James. 1996. After thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence. New York: Basic books. [Hildahl]
Baldwin, Thomas, McVoy, Stevens D., Steinfield, Charles. 1996. Convergence Integrating Media Information and Communication. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. [301.243 B186]
Barrett, Daniel J. 1996. Bandits on the Information Superhighway. Bonn: O'Reilly & Associates. [651.8 I 598 bar]
Barry, John A. 1991. Technobabble. Cambridge: MIT Press. [651.8 B 279t]
Bolter, David J. 1984. Turing's man: Western Culture in the Computer Age. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. [301.24 B 69]
* Browning, Graemen. 1996. Electronic Democracy: Using the Internet to Influence American Politics. Wilton: Pemberton Press. [320.973 B 885e]
* Cairnncross, Frances. 1997. The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. [Hildahl]
Cherny, Lynn, Weise, Elizabeth Reba (Eds.) 1996. Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace. Seattle: Seal Press. [301.41 W79c]
Cohen, Frederick B. 1995. Protection and Security on the Information Superhighway. New York: Wiley Publications. [651.8 I 598 coh]
Cowan, Ruth. 1996. "Technology is to science as female is to male: Musing on the history and character of our discipline." Technology and Culture 37: 572-582.
* Dertouzos, Michael L. 1997. What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives. San Francisco: HarperEdge. [301.24 D43w]
* Dery, Mark. 1994. Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. Durham: Duke University Press. [301.24 F 57d]
* Dyson, Esther. 1997. Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age. New York: Broadway Books. [Hildahl]
Dyson, George. 1997. Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence. New York: Prentice Hall. (SLS)
Ellul, Jacques. 1964. The Technological Society. New York: Vintage Books. (SLS)
Ermann, David, William, Mary B. 1997. Computers, Ethics and Society. New York: Oxford University Press. [174.909 C 73er]
Feigenbaum, Edward A. The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World. New York: NAL. [651.8 F 29]
Feldman, Tony. 1997. An Introduction to Digital Media. New York: Routledge. [Hildahl]
Forsythe, Chris, Grose, Eric, Ratner, Julie (Eds.) 1998. Human Factors and Web Development. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [651.8 I598hu]
* Gates, Bill. 1995. The Road Ahead. New York: Viking Press. [651.8 G 259r]
* Gilster, Paul. 1997. Digital Literacy. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [651.8 I 589gil]
Girl Tech. 1997. Tech Girl's Internet Adventures. Foster City, CA: IDG Books. [651.8 I598te]
Grossmann, Lawrence K. 1995. The Electronic Republic. New York: Viking Press. [329.G 87e]
Hale, Constance. 1996. Wired Style Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age. San Francisco: Hardwired. [Hildahl]
Hamming, Richard Wesley. 1972. Computers and Society. New York: McGraw Hill. [301.243 H22]
* Holtzman, Steven. 1997. Digital: The Aesthetics of Cyberspace. New York. Simon & Schuster. [700 H75d]
* Johnson, Steven. 1997. Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate. New York: HarperEdge. [301.24 J691]
* Jones, Steven. 1995. Cybersociety Computer-mediated Communication. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. [651.8 C994j]
Jones, Steven G. (Editor). 1995. Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications [651.8 I 598vi]
Kidder, Tracy. 1981. The Soul of a New Machine. Boston: An Atlantic
Monthly Press Book. [Hildahl]
Kiesler, Sara. 1997. Culture of the Internet. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates. [301.243 C965]
Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1996. "Technology, work and social change." Journal of Labor Research 17: 613-626.
McCorduck, Pamela. 1985. The Universal Machine: Confession of a Technological Optimist. New York: McGraw Hill. [651.8 M13]
Morgans, J. B.. 1996. "Thriving in an information age." Management Today 1: 5.
* Negroponte, Nicholas. 1995. Being Digital. New York: Vintage Book.
Nethe, Richard. 1996. "Mixed blessings: Second thoughts on the information explosion." Humanist 56: 12-16.
Nolan, Patrick, Lenski, Gerhard. 1996. "Technology, ideology and societal development." Sociological Perspectives 39: 23-28.
Norton, Melanie J. 1996. "Short takes in the digital revolution." American Society for Information Science 22: 19-21.
Norton, Melanie J., Lester, June. 1996. "Digital accessibility: Information value in changing hierarchies." American Society for Information Science 22: 25-27.
* O'Reilly and Associates. 1997. The Internet and Society. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press. [651.8 I598ha]
Paul, Gregory, Cox, Earl D. 1996. Beyond Humanity Cyberrevolution
and Future Minds. New York: Prentice Hall. [651.8 B 565p]
Perelman, Michael. 1991. Information, Social-relations and the Economics of the High Technology. New York: St. Martins Press. [338.9 P 437I]
* Porter, David, editor. 1997. Internet Culture. New York: Routledge, Inc. [301.24 I 61p]
Rickman, Jon T. 1992. The Electronic Campus: A Case History of the First Comprehensive High-access Academic Computing Network at a Public University. Maryland: Prescott Publication Company. [378.002 R 53e]
* Riverson, Kwasena L. 1993. Telecommunication Development: The Case of Africa. Lanhan: University Press of America Inc. [384 R 62t]
Rose, Frank. 1984. Into the Heart of the Mind: An American Quest for Artificial Intelligence. New York: Harper & Row. [651.8 R 79]
Rosen, Charlie. 1937. "My computer-related wish list for the next 50 years." Communications for the ACM 40: 122-124.
* Shenk, David. 1997. Data Smog. New York: HarperEdge. [301.24 S 535d]
* Slater, Robert. 1987. Portraits in Silicon. Cambridge: MIT Press. [651.8 S 63]
* Smith, Anthony. 1996. Software for the Self. New York: Oxford University Press. [301.243 S64s]
Smith, Terry. 1996 "Of bicycles, bakelites and bulbs: Towards a theory of sociotechnical change." Contemporary Sociology 25: 811-812.
Spencer, Charles D. 1990. Digital Design for Computer Data Acquisition. New York: Cambridge University Press. [651.8 S 74]
Spinello, Richard. 1997. Case Studies in Information and Computer Ethics. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. [174.909 S 75c]
* Stefik, Mark. 1996. Internet Dreams, Archetypes, Myths and Metaphors. Cambridge: The MIT Press. [651.8 I 598st]
* Tapscott, Don. 1998. Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation. New York: McGraw-Hill. [301.24 T17g]
* Turkle, Sherry. 1984. The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. New York: Simon & Schuster. [651.8 T 93]
* Turkle, Sherry. 1995. Life on the Screen Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster. [Prof. Hildahl]
Whittle, David B. 1997. Cyberspace: The Human Dimension . New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. [301.24 W62e]
Zuboff, Shoshana. 1988. In The Age of the Smart Machine. New York: Basic Books. [301.24 Z93]
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