Wiki Page, Social Media: SH-Supplemental Books

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Task: Choose a Book

There are dozens of books that you might pick up that are related to this course. Rather than ask you to read all of them, I'm going to ask that you do the following:

1. Choose ONE book from the list below and take the Choose a Book Survey.

2. Read it carefully.

3. Contribute what you learned from this book at the appropriate topics in the course (cite the author if you quote the book).

Book List

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom , by Yochai Benkler [free PDF download]

The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation, by Jono Bacon [free PDF download]

Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together, by Felicia Wu Song [approx $32].

On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders , by Michael A. Banks [under $10]

Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live , by Jeff Jarvis [under $15]

I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy , by Lori Andrews [under $10]

We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency , by Parmy Olson [under $20]

The Social Media Business Equation: Using Online Connections to Grow Your Bottom Line, by Eve Mayer Orsburn [under $15]

Return on Relationship, by Ted Rubin and Kathryn Rose [under $20]

Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff [under $15]

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr [under $15]

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, by Sherry Turkle [under $15]

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations, by Clay Shirky [under $15]

The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, by Clay A. Johnson [under $15]

Navigating Social Media Legal Risks: Safeguarding your Business, by Robert McHale [under $20]

The Social Media Handbook: Rules, Policies, and Best Practices to Successfully Manage Your Organization's Social Media Presence, Posts, and Potential, by Nancy Flynn [under $40]

YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, by Jean Burgess, Joshua Green, Henry Jenkins, and John Hartley [under $15]

Wide Open Privacy: Strategies for the Digital Life, by J.R. Smith and Siobhan MacDermott [under $15]

Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age, by Manuel Castells [under $10]