SIE 525 Information Systems Law
INFORMATION SYSTEMS BOOK LIST
Required books for this
course include the following:
Book 1. Cyberlaw Text and Cases
Book 2. Code Version 2.0
Lawrence Lessig (2008)
http://codev2.cc/
Book 3. Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy
Lawrence Lessig (2008)
http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/remix.htm
Book 4. The Wealth of Networks
Benkler, Yochai (2006)
full book pdf: http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks.pdf
chapter pdfs: http://www.benkler.org/wonchapters.html
Book 5. The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
James Boyle (2008)
http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/
INFORMATION SCIENCE BOOKS OF POTENTIAL INTEREST
This list includes some classics of interest to all information science students. Most of the books should be readily understandable to graduate students regardless of your undergraduate background. Only some of the books are related to SIE 525.
You may be required to write a book review for one of the volumes listed below. The links provided below are typically to book reviews.
Information and Communication Science Foundations
Bush, Vannevar. 1945. As We May Think. Atlantic Monthly 176 (1): 101–08.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush
Luenberger, David G., 2006, Information Science, Princeton University Press
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8214.html
Shannon, Claude and Warren Weaver. 1949. The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/67qhn3ym9780252725463.html
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Theory-Communication-Claude-Shannon/product-reviews/0252725484
Sowa, John F. 2004. Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole.
http://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Representation-Philosophical-Computational-Foundations/dp/0534949657
Applied/Pragmatic/ Information Science Issues
Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. 2000. The Social Life of Information. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
http://www.istl.org/01-winter/review3.html
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/hbsp/slofinfo.htm#ours
Hernandez, Michael, 2003, Database Design for Mere Mortals, Addison-Wesley
http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0201752840
Segaran, Toby and Jeff Hammerbacher, 2009, Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions, O'Reilly Media
http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Data-Stories-Elegant-Solutions/dp/0596157118 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157111
Theory of Networks
Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. 2002. Linked: The New Science of Networks. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing.
http://www.dougsimpson.com/blog/archives/000075.html
http://www.bearcave.com/bookrev/linked/
Buchanan, Mark, 2002, Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks, Norton
http://www.amazon.com/Nexus-Worlds-Groundbreaking-Theory-Networks/dp/0393324427
Watts, Duncan J. 2003. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_10_163/ai_98923281/
http://www.complexityandeducation.ualberta.ca/complicity2/documents/complicity_21m_bower.pdf
Weinberger, David. 2002. Small Pieces Loosely Joined. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing.
http://dannyreviews.com/h/Small_Pieces.html
http://www.samizdat.com/weinberger.html
Classification/Ontologies/Metadata
Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. 1999. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
http://www.istl.org/00-winter/review2.html
http://www.librarything.com/work/62760
de Keyser, 2009, From Thesauri to the Semantic Web, Neal-Schuman Publishers
http://www.neal-schuman.com/bdetail.php?isbn=9781843342922
Lei Zeng, Marcia and Jian Qin. 2008. Metadata
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/publications/book_reviews/full_review.php?id=540
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-197363385/metadata-book-review.html
Morville, Peter. 2005. Ambient Findability. Sebastopol: O'Reilly.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007652
http://www.amazon.com/Ambient-Findability-What-Changes-Become/dp/0596007655
Cyberethics
Spinello, Richard, 2006, Cyberethics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace (Third Edition)
Tavani, Herman T., 2007, Ethics and Technology: Ethical Issues in an Age of Information and Communication Technology (Second Edition)
Information Economics
Benkler, Yochai. 2006. The Wealth of Networks. New Haven: Yale University Press.
http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/technology/book-review-the-wealth-of-networks/
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/productivity/0,1000001109,39286817,00.htm
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004691.html
Shapiro, Carl and Hal R. Varian, 1999, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy, Harvard Business School Press
Varian, Hal R., Joseph Farrell, Carl Shapiro, The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521605210
Sharing and Commons Concepts
Aoki, Boyle and Jenkins (2006) Bound by Law?
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.php
Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, (ed.) 2005. Code: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
http://www.flipkart.com/collaborative-ownership-digital-economy-rishab/8130903970-su23f9msnt
www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol3-3/code_review.pdf
Hess, Charlotte and Elinor Ostrom, Editors, Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, c2007.
http://www.istl.org/07-summer/review3.html
Mitchell, Henry C. 2005. The Intellectual Commons: Toward an Ecology of Intellectual Property.
http://www.flipkart.com/intellectual-commons-henry-mitchell-toward/0739113429-h5w3fy8lpf
Weber, Steven. 2004. The Success of Open Source. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/30
Williams, Sam. 2002. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/index.html
Access to Scholarly, Scientific and Government Information
Boyle, James, 2010. What if the Web Really Worked For Science?
Video: http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/
Willinsky, John. 2006. The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10611&ttype=2
http://www.amazon.com/Access-Principle-Scholarship-Electronic-Publishing/dp/0262232421
Wright, Alex. 2007. Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages. Washington: Joseph Henry Press.
http://www.alexwright.org/glut/reviews.html
http://informationr.net/ir/reviews/revs296.html
Assessing the Impacts of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem: Retaining Leadership in an Increasingly Global Environment
http://www.nap.edu
The Socioeconomic Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks: Toward a Better Understanding of Different Access and Reuse Policies: Workshop Summary (2009)
http://www.nap.edu
Intellectual Property
Biegel, Stuart, 2002, Beyond Our Control? Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace
Cornish, William, (ed.). 2004. Intellectual Property. New York: Oxford University Press.
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:iu_LUvFOP0wJ:www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/issue2/cornish-review.doc+Cornish,+William,+%28ed.%29.+2004.+Intellectual+Property+book+review&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Lessig, Lawrence. 2006. CODE:Version 2
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/code-version-20-by-lawrence-lessig-439385.html
Merges, Robert P., Peter S. Menell, and Mark A. Lemley. 2000. Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age. Gaithersburg: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Privacy
Klosek, Jacqueline. 2007. The War on Privacy. Westport, CT: Praeger.
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/klosek0507.htm
OHara, Robert, 2005, No Place to Hide, Free Press.
Solove, Daniel J. 2007. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2008/07/solove-daniel-j-future-of-reputation.html Download at http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/dsolove/Future-of-Reputation/text.htm
Westin, Alan F. 1967. Privacy and Freedom. New York: Atheneum.
http://www.privacilla.org/fundamentals/privacyandfreedom.html
Preservation/Archiving/Curation
Degan, Marilyn and Simon Tanner, Eds., 2006, Digital Preservation, Neal-Schuman Publishers
http://www.neal-schuman.com/bdetail.php?isbn=1856044858
Harvey, Ross, Digital Curation, 2010, Neal-Schuman Publishers
http://www.neal-schuman.com/bdetail.php?isbn=9781555706944
Security/Encryption
Denning, Dorothy E., 1999, Information Warfare and Security
http://www.flipkart.com/information-warfare-security-dorothy-robling/0201433036-jqw3f9u0z4
Mel, H. X., Doris Baker, 2000, Cryptography Decrypted, Addison-Wesley Professional
http://www.amazon.com/Cryptography-Decrypted-H-X-Mel/product-reviews/0201616475/ref=pd_sim_b_cm_cr_acr_txt_3?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
Sing, Simon, 1999, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, Anchor Books
http://www.amazon.com/Code-Book-Science-Secrecy-Cryptography/dp/0385495323
Beyond 'Fortress America': National Security Controls on Science and Technology in a Globalized World
http://www.nap.edu
Award Winning Information Systems Books
http://www.asis.org/awards/book.html
Important Societal Issues where Information Technologies are likely to Play a Major Role
Sustainability
Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, 1999, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Little Brown Publishing
http://www.natcap.org/sitepages/pid9.php
Downloadable chapters at http://www.natcap.org/sitepages/pid20.php
McDonough, William and Michael Braungart, 2002, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, North Point Press
http://www.mcdonough.com/cradle_to_cradle.htm
http://www.metaefficient.com/book-reviews/book-review-cradle-to-cradle-remaking-the-way-we-make-things.html
Steffen, Alex, 2006, World Changing: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, Abrams
http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-0810930951-0
Development
Collier, Paul, 2007, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, Oxford University Press
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-183858691/collier-paul-bottom-billion.html
Easterly, William, 2006, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, Penguin Press (written in response to the Sach’s book)
http://www.flipkart.com/white-man-burden-william-easterly/0143038826-xow3f31e3b
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/61525/amartya-sen/the-man-without-a-plan
Easterly, William R. and William Easterly, 2001, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, MIT Press
http://www.amazon.com/Elusive-Quest-Growth-Economists-Misadventures/dp/0262550423
Hargroves, Karlson Charlie, Michael Harrison Smith, Amory B. Lovins, and William McDonough, 2007, The Natural Advantage of Nations: Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st Century, Earth Scan / James & James
http://www.powells.com/biblio?PID=29592&cgi=product&isbn=1844071219
Sachs, Jeff, 2005, End of Poverty, Penguin Press
Social Entrepreneurship
Stohr, Kate and Cameron Sinclair, 2006, Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises, Metropolis Books
Smith, Cynthia E., 2007, Design for the Other 90%
The following older books should be available in Fogler Library:
Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure
Brian Kahin & Charles Nesson (editors) (1997) MIT Press; ISBN: 0262112205
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Lawrence Lessig (1999) Basic Books; ISBN: 0465039138
Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age
Mike Godwin (1998) Times Books-Random House; ISBN: 0812928342
Cyberlaw: Text and Cases
Gerald R. Ferrera, Stephen D. Lichtenstein, Margo E. K. Reder, Ray August, William T. Schiano (August 10, 2000) South-Western College Publishing; ISBN: 0324012977
Cyberlaw and E-Commerce
David L. Baumer, J. Carl Poindexter (July, 2001) McGraw-Hill Higher Education; ISBN: 0072441208
Commercial Observation Satellites: At the Leading Edge of Global Transparency
John C. Baker, Kevin M. O'Connell, and Ray A. Williamson, (editors)
Copyright, Cases & Materials
Jane C Ginsburg, Robert A Gorman, 5th edition (July 1999) Matthew Bender & Company; ISBN: 032701329X
Copyrights Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox
Golstein
A Culture of Secrecy : The Government Versus the People's Right to Know
Athan G. Theoharis (Editor) (April 1998) Univ Pr of Kansas;
The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age
Committee on Intellectual property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure, National Research Council (2000) National Academy Press; ISBN: 0309064996
The End of Privacy
Charles J. Sykes (October 1999) St Martins Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0312203500
The End of Privacy : How Total Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
Reginald Whitaker (February 2000) New Press; ISBN: 1565845692
Information Rules : A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian (November 1998) Harvard Business School Pr; ISBN: 087584863X
Intellectual Property in the New Information Age
Robert P. Merges, et.al.
Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property
Brian Kahin (Editor), Hal R. Varian (Editor) (January 15, 2000) MIT Press; ISBN: 0262611597
Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors
Mark J. Stefik, Vinton G. Cerf (May 9, 1997) MIT Press; ISBN:
The Internet Edge: Social, Technical, and Legal Challenges for a Networked World
Mark J. Stefik (January 15, 2000) MIT Press; ISBN: 026269249X
A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases
Committee for a Study on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest, National Research Council (1999) National Academy Press; ISBN: 0309xxxxxx
Readings in Cyberethics
Richard Spinello and Herman T. Tavani (editors) (2001) Jones and Bartlett Publishers; ISBN: 067371500x
Rites of Privacy and the Privacy Trade: On the Limits of Protection for the Self
Elizabeth Neill (February 2001) McGill Queens Univ Pr; ISBN: 0773521135
Software and Internet Law
Mark Lemley (2001)
Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape
Philip Agre and Marc Rotenberg, eds. (1998) MIT Press; ISBN 026201162x
The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
David Brin (1998) Perseus Books; ISBN 0738201148
Trust in Cyberspace
Fred B. Schneider (Editor), National Research Council (January 1999) National Academy Press; ISBN: 0309065585
Computers, Surveillance, and Privacy
David Lyon (Editor), Elia Zureik (Editor) (April 1996) Univ of Minnesota Press; ISBN: 0816626529
CyberLaw: The Law of the Internet
Jonathan Rosenoer (1996) Springer; ISBN: 0387948325
Electronic Media Law and Regulation, Second Edition
Kenneth C. Creech (1996) Focal Press - Reed Elsevier; ISBN: 0240802160
Law and the Information Superhighway
Henry H. Perritt, Jr. (1996) John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-12624-1 plus Supplement
Media Law
Ralph L. Holsinger and Jon Paul Dilts (1994) McGraw Hill
NetLaw: Your Rights in the Online World
Lance Rose (1995) Osborne McGraw-Hill
Online Law: The Software Publisher Association's Legal Guide to Doing Business on the Internet
Thomas J. Smedinghoff (Editor) (1996) Addison-Wesley
Persuation and Privacy in Cyberspace: Online Protests over lotus marketplace & the clipper chip
Laura J. Gurak (1997) Yale University Press
Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society
James Boyle (1996)