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Resources


Books

Below is a listing of books that you should be able to find either in the RIC library or through Helin. They are generally written for a mass audience and are not too technical.

  • Baym, Nancy K. 2010. Personal Connections in the Digital Age. Malden, MA : Polity
  • Brenner, Susan W. 2010. Cybercrime: Criminal Threats from Cyberspace. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger
  • Daniels, Jesse. 2009. Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield
  • Gershon, Ilana. 2010. The Breakup 2.0 : Disconnecting Over New Media. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press
  • Goldsmith, Jack and Tim Wu. 2006. Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World. New York : Oxford University Press.
  • Hafner, Katie. and Matthew Lyon. 1998. Where Wizards Stay Up Late : The Origins of the Internet. New York : Touchstone
  • Hile, Kevin. 2010. Cybercrime. Farmington Hills, MI: Lucent Books.
  • Lee, Rachel C. and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong. 2003. Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace. New York: Routledge.
  • Levinson, Paul. 2009. New New Media. New York, NY: Allyn and Bacon
  • Morozov, Evgeny. 2011. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. New York : Public Affairs
  • Nakamura, Lisa. 2008. Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet. Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press.
  • Palfrey, John and Urs Gasser. 2008. Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives. New York: Basic Books.
  • Pariser, Eli. 2011. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You. New York: Penguin Press.
  • Poulsen, Kevin. 2011. Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground. New York: Crown Publishers.
  • Shirky, Clay. 2009. Here Comes Everybody : The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. New York, NY: Penguin
  • Song, Felicia Wu. 2009. Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone: Online Together. Berg: New York
  • Sunstein, Cass R. 2007. Republic.com 2.0. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
  • Turkle, Sherry. 1995. Life On the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York : Simon & Schuster
  • Witte, James C. and Susan Mannon. 2010. The Internet and Social Inequalities. Taylor and Francis: New York, NY


Web Resources

This section lists websites, podcasts, and other links.